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Thursday, March 31, 2005
1:37 PMNumber 10
Eccleston quits Doctor Who role. After 1 season. The BBC has just decided to renew for another season, but now has to find a new actor to be the 10th Doctor.
Timelords only have 12 regenerations (13 lives).
There is still no station in the US carrying Dr. Who, and I like everyone else in America had to watch the first ep as a bittorrent. I don't want to have to watch all of them that way.
Gallifrey One has heard a rumor that David Tennant will be the 10th.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
2:56 PM
Space Wednesday 15
Nasa to conquer space with swarms of tiny robot pyramids (Guardian Unlimited)
Love that title.
Space Debris: Assessing The Risk (Science Daily)
Review of the threats to satellites and space craft from paint, screws and old craft.
Last Hardware Needed For ATV Arrival Installed During ISS Spacewalk (Space Daily)
Jules Verne is set to launch early next year.
Unstoppable Creepy Crawlers (Space Daily)
26 pound "snakebot" can travel up, over and around almost anything in its way.
AERA Releases Animated Presentation Of Altairis Rocket For Space Tourists (Space Daily)
Company plans to release the animation to news outlets today. Not available on their website yet, still says late march early April.
NASA Seeks Public Views on Nuclear-Powered Pluto Mission (Space.com)
I have no problems with RTGs and hope that the public looks at the facts and the science and not mob mentality fear.
Engineering Resources (via Del.icio.us)
A blog about the information available at the Hagerty Library at Drexel University.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
2:51 PM
Still in no mood to write anything worthwhile, so how about some more links to amuse and confound.
Images projected on Nuclear cooling tower. (via Kottke)
Very weird, can you imagine the hoops you would have to jump through in order to pass the security tests to do that here in the US? I mean you could probably jump the fence and setup a projector but in 2 or 3 days (at the tops) they would find it. Then you would be arrested for "terrorist acts" and sent to Albania. I like this image the best.
The Smiths set for academic study (BBC)
I had friends who would have loved to known that one day, when they grew up, that they could "study" The Smiths and get paid for it.
Not Dead Yet (via Oblivio)
A daily dose of whatever. But no archive. Today is titled "Big Hairy Man-Boobs".
The James Madison Papers (Library of Congress)
Scanned images of his letters and writings. There is a whole lot of stuff online from the Library. I like the maps section.
Monday, March 28, 2005
3:02 PM
Links not about feeding tubes
Psst - Wanna Buy a Slightly Used Soviet Space Suit? (Wired)
Get a slightly used, might have been in orbit, maybe Gagarin wore it, Russian Space Suit, for only 50 to 100 thousand dollars.
Space Station Astronauts Take Spacewalk (NYTimes)
Launched Nanosputnik, a small 11 pound baby satellite.
Building my own Perfect Machine (Salon)
Build your own DVR, for slightly more then a TiVo, even if you have no idea what you are doing.
Feeding Tube (Get Your War On)
So I lied. Stop feeding me.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:48 PM
Space Wednesday 14
13 things that do not make sense (New Scientist)
My favorite is number 8, The Pioneer anomaly. What is affecting them?
'Seeds of a Revolution' Could Help Change NASA (Space.com)
"Like other public agencies, NASA?s overarching goal is to promote and protect liberty, Holmes said. A key to liberty is mobility..." Huh? NASA's goal is to protect liberty? I though it was to explore space and flight.
Shuttle Rescue: Four Astronauts Train for the Unthinkable (Space.com)
Atlantis will be waiting in the wings when Discovery launches, around May 15th.
NASA's Spitzer Marks Beginning of New Age of Planetary Science (Space Daily)
More info and an artist's rendering of the planet.
Free Tickets To Ride (Space Daily)
Winner of Volvo's "Boldly Go" will be announced soon. Prize is a flight aboard Virgin Galactic.
Solar-Powered Blimp Could Fly For A Year (Space Daily)
Purdue team to float high-altitude airship for weather, security (Purdue.edu)
I like blimps and zeppelins.
Non-space: V for Vendetta, one of my favorite graphic novels, starts shooting soon.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
4:50 PM
Interesting, or of note, or about squirrels
Unexpectedly, Mars rovers are still going strong (News.com)
"'Today is Sol 427 of our 90-Sol mission to Mars,' Steven W. Squyres, the mission's principal investigator, said last week, to laughter and applause of scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference here on the outskirts of Houston. 'Things continue to go well.'"
Study Unravels Mathematics of Wildfires (SciAm)
A great title but nothing of substance in the article. Not much more in the abstract and I'm not going to pay $10 to read the full paper, oh well.
The Squirrel Place, Burnsville, Minn.
Just odd. But we have squirrels in the walls again, so maybe some helpful info. Most likely just odd.
4:09 PM
Light from an alien world
Scientists Discern Glow of Alien Planets for the First Time (NYTimes)
Say hello to the heat glow of HD209458 and TrES-1. What great names. Imagine if they weren't "so-called hot Jupiters" and could support life, the inhabitants would be the TrES-1ings and the HD209458ers.
These aliens would burn us all with their heat vison and hate.
2:59 PM
New Otomo Film
Steamboy: playing at Kendall Square Cinema now to Thursday (Both subtitled and english dubbed showings)
Wired: Steamboy Rages Against Machines
12:40 PM
Stinkoman 20X6
New Homestar Runner Game. Stinkoman 20X6.
My mario skills are dead, I can't seem to do anything in this game.
1:18 PM
Lots a Links
Lab fireball 'may be black hole' (BBC)
"Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core of the fireball has a striking similarity to a black hole."
Mini Big Bang Created, Puzzling Results Too Explosive (Space.com)
More detailed info.
Who Will Win: Boeing Or Airbus? (Space Daily)
The epic battle between Good and Evil. Just which company is good is anyone's guess.
Decoding the original computer geek (News.com)
Info on Norbert Wiener, the inventer of cybernetics.
Mountain Living More Heart-Friendly, Study Suggests (SciAm)
You also don't have to worry about rising oceans and tsunamis either.
How to prepare a planet for global warming (CSM)
Pray, and then die before the shit hist the fan.
Predictions Vary for Refuge as Drilling Plan Develops (NYTimes)
"..one crucial question is whether there is enough oil scattered underneath the coastal plain section of the 19-million-acre refuge to be commercially viable."
At NASA, Clouds Are What You Zoom Through to Get to Mars (NYTimes)
The cutting of aeronautics programs will hinder the space program.
Congress Quizzes NASA On Cuts in Aeronautics Spending (Space.com)
"Although NASA was one of the few federal agencies to see an increase in the 2006 budget ... the U.S. Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate would see its budget drop 6 percent to $850 million next year, ... (then down) to about $700 million by 2010."
Friday, March 18, 2005
5:34 PM
Hockey East
BU vs UNH @ 8pm tonight.
Go Terriers!
Hockey East Bracket.
UPDATE: BU lost 2-5. UNH went on to play and lose to BC in the championship. The win helped BC get top seed for the NCAA playoffs.
NCAA Hockey bracket.
BU will play North Dakota on Friday at 8pm in Worcester, Mass.
2:49 PM
"It's the end of the world as we know it."
Blue Planet: The Monster In The Back Yard (Space Daily)
My favorite super-volcano, Yellowstone National Park. When you visit it's good to know that if she erupts, you won't have to live through the ice age that follows.
Spring Starts Sunday, But Why Has the Date Changed? (Space.com)
The ever changing first day of Spring.
Pimp My Shuffle - Retro Cordless Edition
Man, those things are rad-tac-ular. Dude. Yeah.
A MODEST PROPOSAL by Jonathan Swift.
Because baby eating never caught on like it should have. I request you read it again, and then decide if babies are worth the wait.
NASA Says Shuttle Flights to Station Should Proceed (NYTimes)
NASA Proposal to Reduce Spending for Aviation Research by 20% Dismays Experts (NYTimes)
Thursday, March 17, 2005
4:47 PM
The links of the day
eFile for free! (via Kottke)
Still haven't started my taxes. The papers are sitting there, on my desk, staring at me, and yelling at the top of their lungs, kind of like the scream-a-pillar from the Simpsons.
Playing With Frozen Fire (Wired)
The ocean may burp, and burp it will, unless we harvest that icy methane threat.
How to destroy the Earth (via Scheier's Security Blog)
I wish there was a dummy's version. Oh, wait, no I don't.
The Lost Jackson Boy (Harpers)
Harper's is good. Good like lightning bugs in a darkroom.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
4:23 PM
Space Wednesday 13
Congress examines proposed cuts to NASA aeronautics research (Ohio.com)
"'We're going to take the 'A' out of it and it's just going to be the National Space Administration,' Kucinich said of NASA, which stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."
Space station loses gyro (Spaceflight Now)
NASA says everything is fine, the other 2 are working, and the fourth has been dead since 2002. So nothing to worry about. At least the oxygen generator works, again.
France, Russia Ink Deal On Rocket Launchers (Space Daily)
Craft looks like something from a '70's sci-fi film.
Other News:
Spacehab Receives $1 Million New Vision Contract Option From NASA (Space Daily)
Saturn Probe Finds Atmosphere on Moon Enceladus (ABC News)
Non-space News:
Yes, It's a Lobster, and Yes, It's Blue (NYTimes)
My little blue buddy in the top right corner has friends.
New Dr. Who Leaked on Purpose? (Wired)
Have you downloaded this yet? Fucking amazing, I can't wait til this series starts. Let's hope they find a US distributor.
Senate Votes to Allow Drilling in Arctic Reserve (NYTimes)
Now they just have to authorize the money to allow drilling. Let's hope that that never happens. Or we'll have some really mad caribou.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
4:59 PM
Comcast and TiVo sitting in a tree
TiVo, Comcast reach DVR deal
In other news, Blog of a Bookslut.
Monday, March 14, 2005
5:19 PM
Forgotten and not missed
Long-Forgotten Reminders of Oregon's Mentally Ill (NYTimes)
"The urns hold the ashes of mental patients who died here from the late 1880's to the mid-1970's. The remains were unclaimed by families who had long abandoned their sick relatives, when they were alive and after they were dead."
5:02 PM
I saw Hickock's grave
The man behind "Deadwood": An interview with David Milch, creator of HBO's Deadwood, my 2nd favorite show. (Carnivale is my favorite)
I missed both last night as I was playing Poker. Luckily I can watch them on "On Demand" tomorrow. Tonight I'll miss my 4th favorite show, 24, as I have a rescheduled dart league match.
I really need a DVR.
(My 3rd favorite show is the new Battlestar Gallactica)
3:58 PM
Dead Can Dance
DCR on tour! Will be in Boston on October 7th.
2:50 PM
Space, to Orbit or not to Orbit, the Ayatollah knows
No plan B for outer space (Economist)
This article sums up, very well I might add, the weird bed habits of NASA, Congress, Russia and Iran. I have always thought that the Iran Nonproliferation Act (INA) is a bad law. We don't have the capability at this point, and for the foreseeable future, to adequately supply the ISS. Russia has the capability but not the currency. We have the currency, but can't use it to our advantage. I really hope that INA is struck, and not amended. We need the ability to buy Russian hardware without restrictions.
Bush Nominates Physicist to Lead Space Agency (NYTimes)
Hopefully Griffin, if approved (he has the backing of AIAA so he should be), will be able to drive NASA and influence Congress into the right direction for our Space Programs. Of course he worked on "Star Wars" so who knows, NASA might cease to exist.
Other News:
Massive Old Galaxies Starve To Death In The Infant Universe (Space Daily)
Black Holes Influence Knowledge Of The Universe (Space Daily)
1:59 AM
Hockey East
BU beats PC. Advances to Semi-finals. Plays UNH on Friday at 8. I plan on trying to get tickets.
I am an alum of BU, my sister Jenny currently goes to Providence College, my sister Kelly is an alum of UNH, it's like a family tournament.
GO BU!
Friday, March 11, 2005
4:29 PM
Mars Express
Going To Mars In Earth Orbit (Space Daily)
What we are doing wrong, what we need to do, ideas, fiction, and the Chinese.
12:56 PM
Failed Day Part 2
Promoter pulls plug on Red Hook concert
Round 2 for Field Day. Cancelled once again.
Never hire this Promoter.
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
12:57 PM
Space Wednesday 12
Space Snakes and Scorpions (Wired)
The out of the ordinary designs for the next set of Mars rovers.
Astronauts Wonder If They'll Ever Fly (Space.com)
"Grounded for two years, a third of the nation's nearly 150 astronauts have never flown in space, and some wonder when they will."
Search for New NASA Chief Drags On (Space.com)
Can't fly, no leader, and getting rid of aeronautics, what the hell is NASA doing.
Super Telescopes in Space and on the Moon (Space.com)
Can spot galaxies no bigger then an atom, able to search large sections of the night sky, more powerfull then a Tasco, its Super Telescope.
Space Race 2: A New AERA In Aerospace (Space Daily)
Profile of AERA hopefull builders of Altaris a 7 passenger sub-orbital spacecraft.
Russia Wants To Build A New Extra-Heavy Launcher (Space Daily)
But we still won't be able to use it to launch anything because of Congress and Iran.
World's First Intergalactic Communication System Now Transmitting (Space Daily)
Make long distance calls to Deep Space (aka E.T.)for $3.99 a minute.
Company fine-tunes space module plans (MSNBC)
Bigelow please hire me.
New Links: SpaceFlightNow and SpaceWeather.
Monday, March 07, 2005
12:05 AM
Cannonball Run
"Gold Dust Gasoline" was the episode of Robot Chicken tonight on Adult Swim.
The end was a modern day, stop motion, puppet Cannonball Run.
Starring Dom DeLuise, Burt Reynolds, The Dukes, Batman and Robin, the guy from MASK, Michael Knight and KITT, and various other action figures.
Headless Ponch (CHiPs) wins the race, then dies, cause he's headless, then Vin Diesel steals the winning gift of a Best Buy gift certificate.
It was funnier with action figures, really.
I mean it. Trust me.
Fine, be that way.
Friday, March 04, 2005
5:44 PM
NIN
Just bought tickets to the May 13th Nine Inch Nails show at the Orpheum.
They went on sale at 5pm, and I bought them at 5pm, and am in the 5th to last row in the Balcony.
2:45 PM
Micro-patron
I'm broke, really broke, but have you seen the list of gifts that I may or may not get for being a micro-patron?
Besides I read his site all day long.
I look at it just as the same as a pledge drive. I listen (and am listening right now) to public radio, I contribute to keep the stations up and running. I might as well do the same, at least once, for Kottke. I gave him $31.13, and I hope he appreciates it.
AND HAVE YOU SEEN THE GIFTS!!!!
*8^p
1:52 PM
Random crap
Empty House on the Prairie (NYTimes)
Free land in the midwest. But do you want it? Or if you do, can you afford to move there? via Megnut
World War 2 Pictures In Color
via Kottke
Wallace and Gromit, Making of (Trailer)
The new movie comes out October 2005, via Kottke also
Mystery of canine ‘suicides’ at eerie bridge (The Herald)
Dog's jumping like lemmings off of a bridge, via Gaiman
Thursday, March 03, 2005
2:59 PM
Fossett Landed
Mission accomplished in round-the-world flight (News.com)
2:21 PM
Space Wednesday 11
I just can't seem to get this out on time anymore:
Fossett Near the End of Round-the-World Flight (NYTimes)
He should be landing in Kansas as I write this.
Newfound Star Smaller than Some Planets (Space.com)
"Imagine that you add 95 times its own mass to Jupiter and nevertheless end up with a star that is only slightly larger," suggests Claudio Melo European Southern Observatory (ESO). "The object just shrinks to make room for the additional matter, becoming more and more dense."
2004: A Historic Year (But Only If ...) (Space.com)
1st in a 2 part series.
NASA Issues Solicitation For Crew Exploration Vehicle (SpaceDaily)
The CEV proposals are due no later than 2 p.m. EST, May 2, 2005. A selection will be made in September, 2005. If anyone has any ideas.
Space Race 2: SpaceDev's Ride To Orbit (SpaceDaily)
SpaceDev built the engine that propelled SpaceShipOne to 100kM. They want to build their own craft, too.
Planets Lurk on Your Desktop (Wired)
Help scientists find new planets with a new screensaver, PlanetQuest.
Radio Pulses Could Signal New Class of Astronomical Object (SciAm)
1:52 PM
Garden, at least in name, is back
Boston's FleetCenter renamed TD BankNorth Garden.
In other insane news, somebody wants to buy every team in the NHL. That includes all the teams that suck (95% of the league). According to WBUR though that deal might be dead as the owner of the Boston Bruins doesn't want to sell.
And didn't someone just buy the Ducks? Why would he sell?
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
11:27 PM
Rubber make my head bounce off snow
My friend Anthony's company got a segment on the local CBS station here in Boston.
Friday, Feb. 25: Check Ski Conditions On Your Cell Phone: Site Delivers Text Messages About Surface Conditions - The Boston Channel.com
The site is Rubbersnow: The best place to find out about snow conditions at your favorite resort. You can sign up to have those reports sent as text messages to your phone.
{As I was writing this he called and then we talked a bit, and now I am writing this again}
He also switched the style on SkyHampton, which is now a blog with links to stories and events taking place on the forks of Long Island. I hadn't clicked on that in some time, so its good to see the change, I'll have to click it more often.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
2:36 PM
Segway Golf
I can't wait to play a course that gives you the option of either a golf cart or a golf Segway.
News.com: Segway takes to rough terrain
Actually, I just can't wait til I can play some golf again. We got more snow last night, and the college closed for a snow day, so at least I got to sleep in.
I still blame that hedgehog.
