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Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Monday, February 28, 2005 11:56 AM Browser wars Kottke is wondering what everyone's browser stats are, so here are mine: Site Meter Stats: (For Feb 2005) IE: 53% (48% IE 6.x; 5% IE 5.x) Mozilla: 43% (40 % Firefox; 3% Mozilla/Netscape) Safari: 3% Opera: 1% Extreme Tracking: (since 2001) IE: 87.57% Netscape: 11.74% Other: 0.42% Opera: 0.10% AOL: 0.05% WebTV: 0.01% Webalizer is no help. Which is funny, as it is my server's stat program. The other 2 are just free. These stats are kind of odd. I use Firefox for everything. At work, at home, on my Mac and on my Windows boxes. Yet IE is the main browser. And I know that I am the only one who ever goes to this site, everyone else gets here by Google searches. 12:12 AM Castle Geyser Castle Geyser Originally uploaded by jadedturtle. More photos up on my Flickr account. This is my favorite geyser at Yellowstone. I sat and watched it for over an hour. It kept having small eruptions the whole time I was there. It is supposed to erupt about every 10 to 12 hours for 20 minutes. There is now a photo set about my cross country trip that will keep growing as I post more photos. Saturday, February 26, 2005 3:19 PM Last 15 on iTunes Depeche Mode "In your room (The Jeep Rock Mix)" Radiohead "Backdrafts (Honeymoon is over)" Van Halen "Why can't this be love" Patti Smith "Beneath the southern cross" The Rolling Stones "Let's spend the night together" D&A "Firspk" Sting "When we dance (Live)" Joy Division "Atrocity exhibition" Better than Ezra "Good" Garbage "Milk" u2/The Passengers "Miss Sarjevo" The Police "How stupid Mr. Bates" Nine Inch Nails "Terrible Lie (Live)" Morrissey "First of the gang to die" R.E.M. "Strange" Now playing: "I want more" by CAN 2:41 PM How much mass does a kilogram have anyway? Kilogram Poses Weighty Problem (Wired) "It's unclear if the principal cylinder's mass is increasing or decreasing, scientists said, because it is the object used to measure others. Still, this poses a concern. Another worry is the possibility of the main model's destruction, come a natural disaster." Friday, February 25, 2005 3:27 PM Space ~~Wednesday~~ 10 Solar Tower of Power Finds Home (Wired) But would it be tall enough to see from space? Rocket Fuel Fed to Newborns (Wired) Didn't I already post about this? Same source too. Have Spaceplane Will Travel (Space.com) "The plan calls for Rocketplane XP to depart from the Oklahoma Spaceport located in Burns Flat and whisk customers skyward to over 60 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth." (Emphasis mine) Space Colonization: The Quiet Revolution (Space.com) NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Continues Making New Discoveries (SpaceDaily) Good pics, and Oxygen in Ring A. 2 things that go great together. US: Missile Shield Intercept Successful (SpaceDaily) We might not have to rely on the angels, but just in case Bush is still praying. Images Suggest 'Recent' Ice on Mars Sea (NYTimes) "The ice, if it turns out to be ice, would fit with assertions that bacteria continue to live on Mars. Liquid water close to the surface, warmed by geothermal energy, could provide an environment for microorganisms" 2:25 PM Pimpin' Pimpzilla. 1:55 PM Open Tabs I need to reboot, so here are all my open tabs so that I can open them again. Kotkke Yahoo Mail Blogger Astronomers find star-less galaxy (BBC News) Full keyboard access in OS X BBC Radio Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game Superman is a Dick Code for Fighting Google AutoLink [updated] BitFontMaker 0.1 NME: Cold Feet? Clooney, Pitt and Damon remaking 7 Hoods Now I can reboot. Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:04 PM Superman is a Dick I love this one. A time telescope. Hilarity ensues. Link by way of the wordy Neil Gaiman Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:55 AM Lincoln the great orange tabby P. Ford has written again. All hail Ftrain, all hail the Ford. My Cat Abraham Lincoln 2:57 AM In Harm's Way (1965) There is nothing worse than flipping through channels late at night and finding something interesting to watch. Cause then you watch it, and can't stop til its over and its 3 am, and you have to work in 5 hours. (Except Blogger not working when you want to post about it) Great movie, I give it 4 stars. In Harm's Way an Otto Preminger Film Starring John Wayne Kirk Douglas Burgess Meredith James Mitchum Carroll O'Connor Henry Fonda To name a few. I suggest you watch it on an earlier timetable. Gotta sleep. Monday, February 21, 2005 11:56 AM This is all that Groundhog's fault There are 4 inches outside. The snow from the last storm had just melted, and now more. I don't know if I can take it. More shoveling. More back ache. Remember when we were young and this was fun? Hmmm, I'll just have to make it fun, or go crazy, either way works. Friday, February 18, 2005 2:58 PM Krafty Listen to 4 songs off of the new New Order album, "Waiting For The Sirens' Call", on BBC1. (Can only be heard until the Feb 20th) Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:11 PM Thug Cops' Favorite Target Thug, but Just Who Was the Guy? (NYTimes, need account) Just who is the man who suffers a million bullet holes? Is he out there now, prowling the streets in a white track suit, looking to gun down a cop? One of the odd little pieces in the Times, which is the reason why I read it. Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:51 PM Space Wednesday 8 Boeing's new 777 is its response to the Airbus A380 (Guardian United) Not space but still interesting. I don't think this is Boeing's answer to the A380, as this variation has been in the pipeline for some time, but I guess this is how the Brits are spinning it. They were saying the same thing on BBC News last night. Space tether to send satellites soaring (New Scientist) I remember one of my Profs talking about this back in the day. The biggest obstacle is when tether and satellite meet. It has to be perfect timing. New rock type found by Mars rover (New Scientist) The Mars Peace Rock In Computer Years, Apollo Replica's an Antique (NYTimes, need account) Umm, that is one weird personal hobby. What's next, a replica of Voyager's computer? Or V'ger? Scientists Find Deeper Meaning for Moon Rumblings (NYTimes) MoonShake, cheddar flavored. Exclusive: NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars (Space.com) The rovers are actually being carried by intelligent mars slugs US Missile Defense Test Ends In Fiasco, Second In A Row (Space Daily) Faith Based Space Defense is still alive and well. Space Race 2: New Rules For Space Tourists (Space Daily) No Drinking. No Smoking. Shirt and Shoes a must. 1:20 PM Murakami on the web A new Haruki Murakami website. (Sound on site) Tons of stuff. Monday, February 14, 2005 11:28 PM BC Sucks BU wins their 26th Beanpot. 3-2 in overtime against Northeastern. Go Terriers. Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:28 AM INTP As it is taken now, I have no idea what the other results were at other times, all though I have those results somewhere, just not handy right now. Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving The Test. The Result 1. The Description Link from Oblivio Saturday, February 12, 2005 2:56 PM Gates of the Park Kotkke took some photos of the unveiling of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Gates at Central Park today. Makes me want to go to NYC in the next 16 days and take some pics of my own. 2:43 PM Last 15 iTunes Tracks Where is my mind??? - The Pixies Stop Dead - The Cure So Fast, So Numb - R.E.M. Extreme Ways - Moby You Must Understand - God Lives Underwater Fearless - The Bravery Judas' Death - Jesus Christ Superstar OS Head Like a Hole (Slate) - Nine Inch Nails Stand - R.E.M. Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Concrete Blonde 5 Years (Denied of Everything Mix) - Bjork There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths Masoko Tanga - The Police Little Acorns - The White Stripes Stripped (Live) - Depeche Mode Now Playing: Tempatation (Live at 2002 Big Day Out) - New Order Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:39 PM Comma I don't feel like writing things down on paper. Or making notes on one of the computers that litter my life like so much wasted time. I should force myself, like I am forcing myself now, to sit down, somewhere, with either pen or keyboard and type inane crap that might, one day, lead to a story. Or I could just keep writing crap, crap with lots, and lots of commas. I went to Tampa last weekend. I saw some friends. I was warm, and the sun kind of woke me up. I saw 2 baby alligators in the wild, and wondered what their mother would do if the kid on the shore got to close. (My friends warned him away, not evil are they) I came back here to the snow, and the computers, and my housemates' dogs, and not much of anything else. Sad, I know. I've been meaning to write more here, but it seems like I get web anxiety when I log on the site, and instead show you links to other people's creative juices. Instead of writing, I think of what I could be writing, then play Hearts, or Scrabble, or Yahtzee, until I am too tired to keep my eyes open, and go to sleep. That is when the ideas come, when I am too tired to move, and my brain, now WIDE AWAKE, is rolling with ideas. I need to do more math. More calculus. I need to read, reading is always a good thing, but I have not gone near the 3 piles books, where each pile is 3 feet tall. The books are in a corner now, covered in dirty laundry. Not a good atmosphere for them. They need dusty shelves not smelly clothes. I'm just rambling now. No thoughts about what I should say, and now the thought comes of deleting this post and starting a new one that is just links to someone else's site. Someone who writes more often than I. Now I notice on a read through how this is the typical "I'm sorry I'm not writing more post" and feel a little despair mixed with joy. I think of deleting it once more. Instead I'll make some tea, see if the dogs are up, and stare at the snow falling outside. 10:11 AM Wacky Wired Widgets Tech Solves Hope Diamond Mystery It was once the French Blue, which was part of the French Royal Jewels. I wonder if the French are going to try and steal it during our next Revolution. The Revolution is near, yes. An Architect's Wet-Cement Dream by Bruce Sterling Robots building cities on the moon and in asteroids waiting for the day that we can create a space ship to get us there. Then we will look around, decide we don't like it, demolish it and start over. Boy will those robots be pissed. What Exactly Is Under the Sea? The Snorks are building a city in the deep from which they will conquer all. Wednesday, February 09, 2005 3:27 PM Space Wednesday 7 Director James Cameron Works with NASA on Future Mars Mission (Space.com) Technical coup rescues Titan wind experiment (New Scientist) Star Wants Out of Milky Way (Wired) Planet-forming process playing out in miniature? (News.com) Astronomers Detect Saturnian Hot Spot (SciaAm) A Spiral Stairway to the Moon and Beyond (Space.com) Space Entrepreneurs To Create Industry Group To Promote Safety Standards (Space Daily) Seismic Network Could Improve Disaster Response (Space Daily) Green Light For Deployment Of ESA's Mars Express Radar (Space Daily) Spirit Encounters 'Alligator' (Space Daily) Wanted the Moon, Got a Little Less (NYTimes, need account) Thursday, February 03, 2005 4:03 PM T-shirts, t-shirts eat them up, yum! Wanna buy some t-shirts. The Thrill of Intense Gaming Monkeys are good people Bears will eat you Sad Psycho I am ten ninjas The saddest wookie 1:37 PM More space to play with Scientists Find Missing Matter (Wired) "Assuming that what we see is a standard portion of the universe, we extrapolated the data and derived the volume density (of baryons in all the clouds) -- and it's consistent with 50 percent," said astronomer Fabrizio Nicastro. Games Join Space Race (Wired) Space Station Sim: The Game Umm, I want this. Please buy it for me, oh great and powerful internet, when it comes out, and I will sacrifice 5 PASCAL scripts and 1 bottle of Jolt Cola. Congress Balks at Hubble Repairs (Wired) Add another rather large piece of trash onto the heap of space. It will still cost us money to send a robotic craft to the Hubble to steer it into the ocean. I still think that we should try and save it. If nothing else open up bidding to other governments to see if they would want to try a mission, whether robotic or not, to fix it. Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:24 PM Space Wednesday 6 First of the new year, now on with the links: Orbital Overload: Space Debris Crowds the Not-So-Friendly Skies (Space.com) The largest garbage can of them all, space, the next landfill. Also: (Need Java) J Track 3D: I have always loved all of the tracking tools. It's nice to be able to see where things are. JTrack: Old School view of the major NASA orbital objects. JPass: Find out when a satellite or the ISS will pass over your location. Space Rescue Technology in Fact and Fiction (Space.com) Simulation Shows Impact Could Have Produced Pluto's Moon (SciAm) LockMart Announces New All-Star CEV Team (Space Daily) "Our team has been on every manned program over the past 45 years. Together, we are developing a CEV for NASA that will be much safer, more reliable and much more operationally efficient than the systems we rely upon today" Lunar Transportation Systems- A New Private Commercial Space Venture (Space Daily) LTS's website and a summary of their system New Geologic Map Of North America Illustrates Advances In Geoscience (Space Daily) "The last definitive geologic map of North America was published before the theory of plate tectonics was widely accepted, back in the days when impact craters were known simply as "anomalies" and knowledge of ocean floor geology was in its infancy." Buy the new Map $125 for Members and $155 for non-members Solar super-sail could reach Mars in a month (New Scientist) I have a book on Solar Sails at home that I keep telling myself I need to read. 1:46 PM I'm hitting it McDonalds Wants You To Fck Its Sandwiches Double cheeseburger? I'd hit it. Da-Da-Da-Da-Da. 1:33 PM* 6 more weeks of winter Phil, star of such movies as "Groundhog Day" and numerous TV appearances, has damned us all to be frozen to death. May God curse his furry soul. 10:39 AM Who needs a computer anyway? A Matt Groening Mac ad from 1989. (via Daring Fireball) I was all of those cartoons during my college years, all 10 of them Tuesday, February 01, 2005 5:27 PM Glass House Interesting Book, can't remember where I go the link from, it has just been sitting in its own tab all day and I just remembered that I should link to it. Glass House by Margaret Morton Some images from the book. Where did I get this from, I think that there was more written about it. Somewhere. UPDATE: Now I remember, OHNY is doing a talk on the book on Thursday, Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m. at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. 4:51 PM America's Cup 2007 In South Africa, Yachting Erases a Racial Barrier (NYTimes) Interesting story, I wish the team luck and hope to see them compete in Spain. I really should join the Boston Sailing Center or CBI for this upcoming year. I need to get back on the water again and I need to get my skills back if I ever want to sail around the world.

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