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Tuesday, June 28, 2005
4:59 PMThe sky above you is covered in contrails
Will Jetmakers Always Have Paris? (Business Week)
Airbus took in more orders at the Paris Airshow but Boeing still leads in total orders for 2005.
NASA Short of Safety Goals (Wired)
"The task force concluded in its final meeting Monday that the space agency still does not fully comply with three of the toughest recommendations put forth by Columbia accident investigators in 2003."
NASA: Shuttle to Take Off Despite Concerns (NYTimes/ AP)
TV Review: 'Seconds from Disaster: Columbia's Last Flight' (Space.com)
Premiers's tonight at 9pm EST on the National Geographic Channel (Channel 210 Boston Comcast)
Photos from a Jules Verne Festival in Paris (via Kottke)
Comet Puts on Show while Waiting for Its Close-Up (SciAm)
On July 4th Deep Impact will smash into Comet Tempel 1.
UAV Uses PIC18 Microcontrollers For Record-Breaking 48-Hour Flight (Terra Daily)
On the ground....
Researchers Release Rare Turtles in Ga. (NYTimes)
Sunday, June 26, 2005
9:05 PM
Going, going....
The Race to Alaska Before It Melts (NYTimes)
Endangered Species Act Faces Broad New Challenges (NYTimes)
Also, my iBook decided to play its stupid games again today. I am beginning to think that I need to back up my data and re-format the drive and start over fresh.
I rebooted it and when it came back up the dock was at its largest magnification and was missing 90% of the apps that I had added. When I clicked on iTunes it acted like I had never used it before and I had to search for my music. iPhoto won't open at all, I am tring a fix right now, we'll see if it will load.
This happened once before, about 3 months ago, and all my playlists disapeared.
It is rather annoying.
Ok, iPhoto is not fixed. The error message is "You can't open your current photo library using this version of iPhoto. You have made changes to your photo library using a newer version of iPhoto. Please quit and use the latest version of iPhoto."
The only button I can click says "Quit".
I have iPhoto 5.0.2, and as far as I know, there is no newer version.
I just might bring it in to a Genius Bar. I still have til September on my apple care package.
Friday, June 24, 2005
3:22 PM
Space on pennies a day
Report Says Space Program Is Lacking Money and Focus (NYTimes)
In an interview, Mr. Abbey said the current space plan called for about $5 billion in the next five years from the annual $16 billion NASA budget to be directed to the Moon-to-Mars plan. Getting to the Moon in the 1960's cost more than $125 billion in dollars adjusted for inflation, he said, so "$5 billion a year probably doesn't even get you to orbit."
11:47 AM
Oh, the radio
Your first new car, a minivan: $20,000
A shopping spree for the kids: $10,000
A down payment on a house with a real backyard: $70,000
A 100 Grand candy bar. Priceless.
via Anthony
Edited 3:26 pm
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
3:53 PM
Surveys to help the quest of a PhD
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
6:42 PM
Space Wednesday 16
Alternate Shuttle Aces Early Test (Wired)
Summer Moon Illusion (via Kottke)
Astronomy Hacks (also via Kottke)
NASA Chief Says Schedule for Shuttles Is Unrealistic (NYTimes)
There might be as few as 15 flights before decommissioning.
First Solar Sail Mission Remains Out Of Contact (Space Daily)
Russian Rocket Carrying Military Satellite Crashes In Siberia (Space Daily)
Not a good day for Russian space launchers.
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: Guinness Recognizes NASA Scramjet (Space Daily)
X-43a hit Mach 9.6 in November 2004.
Magma Oceans Covered Early Asteroids (SciAm)
Airships ahoy (CNet)
Slideshow of airships at the Paris Airshow.
Suborbital Dreams: One Year After SpaceShipOne's Historic Flight (Space.com)
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
5:31 PM
The Hornet
I owned this years and years ago, now a friend wants to buy one.
He just has the urge to relive the 80's all over again.
4:57 PM
NYT on Murakami
A Rebel in Japan Eyes Status in America (need account, get one here)
He will be a writer in Residence at Harvard this upcoming year. I hope this means open readings.
"A short novel, which has yet to be translated into English, "After Dark" centers on the stories of several characters over the course of one night as seen, neutrally and coldly, through a camera eye. The novel could be easily adapted into film, unlike Mr. Murakami's other novels. He has resisted selling his novels to filmmakers, though he said he would hand them over unconditionally to Woody Allen or David Lynch."Oh if that would ever happen, the bliss, the bliss would flow. And let's hope the english translation of "After Dark" doesn't take 2 years.
"Tony Takitani" a movie based on a short story opens July 29th in the US. I know that it will most likely play at Kendall Square.
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
11:16 PM
New BU Pres
BU's new president is called consensus builder (Boston Globe)
An engineer, which makes me happy.
Monday, June 06, 2005
4:31 PM
Motherfucker, they're Bunnies
Pulp Fiction in 30 seconds as re-enacted by Bunnies.
3:03 PM
App-tel
Well, I was going to buy a Mac Mini in the next 2 months.
Now I'll just wait til 2006 and get the intel version. I wonder how this news is going to kill sales til then, cause I sure ain't going to buy a computer platform that will be obsolete in a year.
Instead, I'll build that XP64 box based on the motherboard my boss gave me.
I'll also update my old G3 iBook to Tiger, and that is it til the Intel machines start coming out.
Apple *is* switching to Intel chips (Kottke)
Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006 (Apple Press release)
WWDC: Apple drops IBM PowerPC line for Intel chips (MacWorld)
Apple To Switch To Sun Chips (Funny via Kottke)
Friday, June 03, 2005
4:54 PM
Oh. My. God.
Celiene Dion as MJ singing "Bad". (via LYD)
I am still laughing 10 minutes later.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
9:41 AM
Christmas Present
80 Years of The New Yorker to Be Offered in Disc Form (via Kottke)
Every cartoon, article and ad since 1925. I need this.
