March 29, 2003
The night sky
Astronomers have completed the most thorough high-resolution digital survey of the heavens and released its 5 million images on the Internet. Go check it out.
29 Mar 23:00 | Link | Category: Science
March 19, 2003
Exactitudes
Check out exactitudes.com. (Don't forget to read about it here.)
19 Mar 0:49 | Link | Category: Photography
Fragments from a diary
Read Fragments From A Diary by Wallace Shawn (yes, that Wallace Shawn).
19 Mar 0:28 | Link | Category: Current Events, Opinion & Thoughts
March 15, 2003
Photoshopped Saddam
I usually avoid this type of link, but what the hell. (Read: It's 2 a.m. and I should be asleep.) There are a few gems to be found in the Saddam Hussein Photoshop contest at Worth1000. I particularly like Saddam as Elvis and Saddam as the Blue's Clues guy.
15 Mar 1:57 | Link | Category: Humor
March 12, 2003
Time to go to Mars
In the lastest issue of Wired, Oliver Morton says it's time to mothball the space shuttle and spend the money on real exploration: After Columbia? Go to Mars.
12 Mar 21:20 | Link | Category: Science
March 11, 2003
Stupidity should be cured
I don't mention this as an introduction to an exposition on eugenics, bioethics, or anything of that nature... I simply saw the following headline, chuckled, and nodded my head: "Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer." I think the same thing whenver I drive on the roads for more than ten minutes.
11 Mar 23:52 | Link | Category: Humor, Science
March 4, 2003
North Korea's official web presence
Check out North Korea's "official page" for an odd trip through Stalinist propaganda. (It's completely disturbing, but in a comic-opera sort of way... I suppose your mood will affect your assessment.)
04 Mar 0:44 | Link | Category: Current Events, Technology & Computing
Goodbye, Mr. Rogers
Goodbye, Mr. Rogers. As Charles Taylor says, he "wouldn't lie to us, but he wanted us to have a happy childhood anyway. Through it all, he talked to us like people." Two other good articles are here and here.
04 Mar 0:30 | Link | Category: Art & Entertainment, Current Events
Goodbye, Pioneer 10
Goodbye, Pioneer 10.