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Monday, 28 February 2005
Whoops
I kind of accidentally erased the blog.
Don't know how much of the old stuff I'll be able to bring back.
Saturn Portrait
Using images sent back by Cassini, NASA's JPL has put together "The Greatest Saturn Portrait ... Yet". Available in incredibly high-res versions, the assembled image shows the planet in an extremely-high-detail complete picture.
Maxi Mini
In keeping with my past blogging about the multimedia-appliance value of the Mac mini, here's someone who has his mini hooked up to a 60-inch projection HDTV.
X Prize History
And the era of private spaceflight is now on pause, as SpaceShipOne is being prepared for its permanent home in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, where it will be displayed after making an appearance in Oshkosh, Wis. this summer. With SS1 mothballed, there are now no flightworthy private spacecraft for the time being, a situation which many organizations hope to rectify soon, though possibly not for a couple of years. Rutan had said that SS1 might fly again before becoming a museum piece, but obviously has changed his mind. Still, there's no question that the spacecraft has earned a place in the NASM.
JAXA Aims For Moon
No disrespect intended towards JAXA at all, but I'll believe this when I see it:TOKYO - Japan plans to start building a manned base on the moon and a manned space shuttle within the next 20 years, a newspaper report said Monday.
Japan's space agency, JAXA, is drawing up plans to develop a robot to conduct probes on the moon by 2015, then begin constructing a solar-powered manned research base on the planet and design a reusable manned space vessel like the U.S. space shuttle by 2025, the Mainichi Shimbun said.
Literacy Crisis
Marv Wolfman is going to be revisiting Crisis on Infinite Earths as a novel, which he says will explore the story from different vantage points (specifically, from the Flash's POV) and will thus be about 60 to 70 percent new story.
Saturday, 26 February 2005
Happy Anniversary
I just wanted to say Happy Anniversary to my wonderful wife Nicole, and thank her for five great years together.
Hope everyone is doing well in our absence.
As you were. Carry on.
Thursday, 24 February 2005
Daily Hatbag
Today is the omega and alpha of Hatbag.First, an ending:
For 13 months now, I've been posting 10th anniversary Hatbags, linking back to strips from the original run of Hippie and the Black Guy in The Daily Mississippian at Ole Miss.
Today marks the 10th anniversa