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Monday, 31 October 2005
Leonardo Code Update
So today is the nominal deadline for endings to The Leonardo Code.I've finished an ending, and have received contributions from Joe and Jonathan.
Once all the entries are in, we'll get the final product put together.
But, while it took a bit more than the original month -- the ATW community actually wrote an entire novel in a year. Not bad at all.
iSmash
Initially the idea of SmashMyiPod.com rubbed me the wrong way -- a guy creating a site as a rallying point for iPod backlash, raising funds and using them to buy an iPod to smash in an Apple store.I still don't approve, but I do find the idea of cashing in on anti-iPod sentiment to buy yourself a new iPod somewhat clever.
Editorial Note
I said last Thursday that I didn't think all of the issues were completely worked out. By Friday, I was getting my hopes up, but today I learned I'd been right the first time. There's still a few bugs that I'm working on getting cleared up, but your patience is appreciated in the meantime. Thanks.
iTMS: The Next Generation
The good news is that Apple sold over a million videos in 20 days through the iTunes Music Store, which shows that there is, indeed, potential for online video sales.On the down side, though, a lot of the top selling content was not new. The Pixar shorts are basically a non-renewable resource -- when everyone who wants them has bought them, video sales will drop. The music videos are more like the songs; they can keep being added. Of course, two of the top three selling music videos were Michael Jackson's Thriller and Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice; which casts doubt on whether music videos will stay strong, or whether people will buy the archive selections they want, and then sales will drop off. (Plus, there's anecdotal evidence that some of the purchases of the videos are just to see how the service works, which also will fall off when the novelty wears off.)
The TV episodes seem to promise more potential for ongoing sales -- theoretically, episodes of Lost will remain high sellers as long as new episodes keep going out.
Basically, the million sales mark is nice, but really only relevant if it provides the ammunition for Apple to round up more content to keep the video store alive.
Sunday, 30 October 2005
ATW Book Review -- The Space Tourist's Handbook
One of my favorite volumes in my collection of space-related books is a library discard titled "Your Trip Into Space."The book by Lynn Poole -- "Producer of The Johns Hopkins TV Science Review," the title page proudly proclaims -- was published in 1953, four years before the beep heard 'round the world ushered in the space age, and eight years before anyone would actually take their own trip into space.
It's a fascinating piece both for what it got right, years before the U.S. would being serious work on putting a man into space, and for what it got wrong. Practically on the eve of Sputnik and then Gagarin, the book boldly pronounces, "No one can give you the precise time and exact date for departure. We are willing to take a chance on predicting that man will fly out into space within your lifetime, at least within fifty years." Emphasis theirs.
Looking back from a little more than that half-century later, "Your Trip Into Space" really isn't of much use if you're actually planning your trip into space. But it is a captivating snapshot of the state of spaceflight -- and public perception thereof -- at that moment in time.
Fast-forward now to the present, and a new book with a title that echoes the spirit of that half-century-old library discard, "The Space Tourist's Handbook." This book's bona fides are equally impressive, with the name on the spine belonging to Eric Anderson, president of tourism company Space Adventures. (The author credit beneath Anderson's name adds, "And Joshua Piven, co-author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook.")
To be honest, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from the book when I first heard about it, and Piven's author credit did little to allay that. The success of his above-listed work has spawned a variety of imitators, how-to guides that promise the reader everything up to and including, literally, superpowers. I feared a book that might have some interesting information, but, in living up to its title, would fall as flat as those would-be Supermen. On the flip side, there was also the possibility that it would go the other way, serving as nothing more than a 192-page brochure for Space Adventures.
The book's similarity to its spiritual forebear was pleasantly surprising. Like the earlier book, "The Space Tourist's Handbook" uses the conceit of preparing you for "your trip into space" to present a surprisingly complete picture of the state of human spaceflight at this particular moment in time. From the space shuttle to Soyuz to SpaceShipOne to Shenzhou (and many other things that don't start with S), the book provides an overview of all the major elements of spaceflight in 2005. A person who knew nothing about current events in space could pick up the book and in a couple of hours be relatively conversant about what's going on today. And for the reader taking the book off the shelf as far into the future as "Your Trip Into Space" is into the past would get an excellent idea of what was going on in this moment in history.
There are times when that spaceflight overview is shoehorned into the book's space tourism approach. The book notes the prospect of the space shuttle being used for tourism may be "tantalizing," and, while it notes that there is "no indication" that the government plans for it to be put to such use, to say that's an understatement would be an understatement. The book also notes that a spacewalk is "space tourism's ultimate walk on the wild side--the outer-space equivalent of bungee-jumping, parasailing, and skydiving all rolled into one amazing rush." And that description may be true, but overlooks the fact that while EVA may be "just a single step outside your door," that's one giant leap that no space tourist will be taking any time soon. (The space tourism bias also shows up in such ways as when it promises that "you will be an official astronaut upon completion of your sub-orbital flight." That's "official" according to whom, exactly?)
Those issues aside, the amazing thing about "The Space Tourist's Handbook" is that, in addition to providing an overview of the state of modern spaceflight, it actually lives up to its name. Unlike Poole's book, a person could actually read this book as preparation for their own trip into space. Granted, that's more because of the difference in the age than the difference in authors -- though, to be sure, Anderson has done his part to bring the change about -- but it adds a level of excitement knowing that chapters that still read almost like science fiction are, in fact, rooted in fact.
Even if the $20 million price tag for a Soyuz ticket is slightly out of your budget, the space tourism hints can be fascinating reading while you're waiting for suborbital costs to fall -- the book shares everything from how to prepare for a spaceflight medical exam to how to pass the psychological exam (though one wonders if the tips for seeming sane were actually left over form one Piven's other projects) to what to expect during cosmonaut training to why not to play chess in space (I suggest a new strategy -- let the Russkie win.)
To top it off, furthering its idea that the era of spaceflight for the average man is upon us, a card in the back of the book offers you a chance to enter to win a free suborbital spaceflight.
So when will we actually see someone use this book as preparation for a ride as a passenger on a suborbital spaceflight? I am willing to take a chance on predicting that man will fly out into space on commercial flights within your lifetime, at least within fifty years."
And probably a lot sooner.
Saturday, 29 October 2005
Editorial Note
Two quick notes:First, I've been kind of proud of the fact that this blog has gone from not even making the first page or so in a Google search for All These Worlds to now holding the number one place.
On the flip side, in a search for alltheseworlds, this blog is down to the number three listing (Though 11 of the top 14 are connected to me). Anyway, in hopes of shoring up my position a little, I did a bit of real-estate investing this week, purchasing the domain alltheseworlds.net. Right now, it just points to the blog, and I'm not planning on moving there anytime soon and making everyone learn a new address, but if you want to save a few keystrokes, you can now use the new address instead. I'll answer to either.
Second, during the server problems, while I was unable to say anything about it, I noticed that one of the blogs this blog links to, and I'm not naming names, co-opted the term Blogpoints from ATW. Now, I'm not going to claim to be the only person to use the word (though Google associates the term more with ATW than any other individual blog), but it seems like this unnamed blog could have come up with its own term, like, to just pull something out of thin air, SpatulaPoints. But, don't worry kids:
ITEM! You won't see ATW stooping so low as to steal conventions from that other blog!
Friday, 28 October 2005
ATW One Million
For those who haven't heard, the outage this week was caused when my server host shut down all the scripts at Hatbag.net, preventing dynamic pages like ATW from loading. The shut-down was a result of Hatbag.net putting too much demand on their servers.
Even though the problem wasn't directly exactly too many visitors to the domain (I'm only at about five percent of my bandwidth allocation; though that's many times greater than where I used to be), it was traffic related. Hatbag.net, and ATW in particular, where putting too much load on the server's processor. Basically, every time anybody visits ATW, it was having to use the processor to build the page from scratch. I've since made a change that should eliminate a lot of the work.
The chart above gives you some idea of why that happened. The yellow bars, for example, are unique IP visitors. You know how a year ago I'd be bragging about how traffic was higher than it ever had been? Notice how the little yellow bars on the last-year side of the graph compare to the yellow bar on the right side of the graph. That tall yellow bar is October. With four days left in the month. That's 43,238 unique IP visits to Hatbag.net so far this month.
The other cool thing on the chart is the big green bar. Back in the olden days, hits were how people measured internet traffic. Then, more enlightened times came along, and people switched to Unique IPs as the key measurement. And poor old hits are pretty much ignored. But, for a moment, allow me to draw your attention back to them for just a moment. That big green bar? Over 1 million hits just in the month of October. Yep.
CIVIV
Aspyr has announced that Civilization IV, which was released this week for PC, will be released for Mac early next year.
Marge's Head
Apparently, I helped teach Fox a lesson.And now, I'm kinda sorry.
When they announced that season six of The Simpsons would ship in a new style of box shaped like Homer's head, and that they would be using that format for the next several season, I was one of the ones that complained on my blog about the fact that I would have preferred to have the entire series in matching boxes.
Though I didn't complain directly to Fox, others did, and the company listened -- They went ahead and shipped the season in the new box, but anyone who wanted could have a box that matched the old ones shipped to them for only shipping and handling.
It seems several people did, because, for season seven, Fox is bringing back the old packaging, and keeping the new. According to DVD Answers, the season will be available in both the standard packaging, and a limited edition set in a Marge's head box. (I'm curious how many people got the old-style box for season six if the old packaging is the default for season seven.)
So now, Fox apparently will let us line all of our Simpsons box sets up in matching packages. But now we have to choose. And I kinda liked season six, being able to do both.
But, we won, right?
Gag Me With A Pumpkin
Even with the server problems, we found a way to post this week's new Hatbag to the Web site. Blogging it here, though, was another question. Anyway, we've now gone back in and put it in the site, which is back up. And I'm blogging it here.
Another Blogpoint Opportunity
25 Blogpoints to anyone who sends me a picture of themselves in a Halloween costume this year to be posted on ATW.
Non-Blogpoint Opportunity
The one team that I do actively dislike, though, is Auburn. Didn't like them growing up in Alabama, and got more reason to dislike them during and after college. As a result, I'm not going to give anyone Blogpoints for predicting how badly they're going to beat Ole Miss this weekend.
If Ole Miss does win, though, I'll give 10 Blogpoints to anyone who asks for them tomorrow after the game.
Thursday, 27 October 2005
Editorial Note
As you'll notice, we're back online.Hopefully, the problem has been fixed. (Though there's still at least one other problem to be worked out, so be patient over the next couple of days.)
Thanks!
Wednesday, 26 October 2005
Lobot Horocaust
Does America even stand a chance of remaining relevant in a world in which Japan has developed Lobot technology?
Pod Of Brix
Legos are cool. iPods are cool. And, as PodBrix artist Tomi knows, they’re even cooler together. For his latest creation, he’s put together an iPod made of Legos that really works (as long as you put your own iPod shuffle inside it). Simply slide your shuffle into the Lego case, and impress friends and strangers. The BrixPod goes on sale tomorrow at 8 p.m. CDT (presumably, the site says 9 EST, but surely means 9 EDT) and will likely sell out quickly.
Jobs In Leadership
It’s not unusual to find magazine articles touting Steve Jobs as one of the best business execs in the nation. Nonetheless, I was kind of intrigued by this piece naming Jobs as one of the nation’s best leaders, alongside folks like Colin Powell and Condi. And Oprah, even.
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Hey...
So why no blogging today?
Excellent question.
For whatever reason, I haven't been able to pull up the site. So, yeah. Alas.
Anyway, here are some of the things I would have blogged if I could have:
- Mars is like really bright right now. Check it out.
- Wisconsin may open a private spaceport. For the people that need to go into space. From Wisconsin.
- NASA announces results from space elevator competition. Wasn't sure if Tutor's friends were involved this year or not.
Also, spaaaaaace elevaaaaatooooor!
- Top selling computers on Amazon. Guess what the top five have in common.
Not sure whether tomorrow will be any better, but I'll work on it.
Monday, 24 October 2005
Leonardo Code Update
As of today, only one week remains before the nominal deadline for The Leonardo Code. (Well, the one that wasn't 11 months ago.)I've already had one ending submitted, and I'm well into the more complex of the two endings I'm writing. Ideally, it'd be great to get any other endings in the next week.
I'm also doing some work for the next ATW writing project, which will launch next Tuesday.
An Open Letter To Paramount
Dear Paramount,
Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine! Deep Space Nine!
Love, ATW
Oh, Yeah
One of the things I meant to blog this weekend and then didn't was to say Happy Anniversary to the Tutors!
Saturday, 22 October 2005
Hrm
So there's been something that, when I'm away from my computer, I keep thinking I need to blog today, but every time I'm at my computer, I have no idea what it is.
Oh well.
Hope y'all are having a good weekend.
Friday, 21 October 2005
Movie Poll
So if Nicole and I were to go see a movie this weekend, which should we go see?
Serenity (4 votes)
Elizabethtown (1 votes)
Corpse Bride (0 votes)
Other (Specify in comments) (4 votes)
Here's the full list of options.
Playlist
So many many moons ago I added the Playlist feature to the sidebar. And it was great for a while. Both, eventually, both my ideas and the general participation sort of petered out.Then, a little while back, I tried using that spot for a "Best Of..." list, and that ended up being like a microcosmic history of the Playlist -- Strong participation to start with, but then fizzling out.
So, my question to you, the ATW audience, is what should be done with that space. The way I see it, options are:
1) Going back to doing the playlist thing, but I'm not doing that unless there's an idea to reinvigorate it.
2) Giving the Best Of idea another try, and seeing if it does any better.
3) Giving the Best Of idea another try, but changing it up somehow to make it work better. Ways this might be done include making the list shorter to make it easier, or figuring out a different way to do the ranking.
4) Doing something entirely different with the space.
5) Dropping that spot from the sidebar entirely, which is what I'll end up doing if there's no interest in doing anything else there.
Discuss. Thanks.
Appleture
Following up on our Aperture versus Photohop discussion the other day, here's an article saying that while Aperture is designed to complement, rather than compete with, Photoshop, it could cut into Adobe's sales nonetheless.
Blogpoint Opportunity
10 Blogpoints to the person who best picks tomorrow's game between Ole Miss (2-4, 0-3 SEC) and Kentucky (1-4, 0-2). Picks must be posted before the 1 p.m. CDT kick-off.
New rule after last week -- the points go to the person who picks the winning team, and gets closest to the actual point spread.
Thursday, 20 October 2005
Starr Tours
For the Garrison Starr fans in the audience, especially those in Birmingham (and you know who you are), the G* Web site has posted tour dates, which include three stops in B'ham over the next two months.(Also, she'll be in Nashville tomorrow, if anyone's that dedicated.)
On a related note, from her online "diary":
i'm not sure when my last entry was (probably too long ago), but i finished a new record here in nashville with producers brad jones and neilson hubbard. it's an organic kinda artsy record.... i'm really into it. yeah, don't worry, it's still has the rock. it's all rock.
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the new record is scheduled for march, so be on the lookout.
Editorial Note
With the month only two-thirds over, October has already become the highest traffic month in Hatbag.net history, with over 27,000 unique IP visitors so far this month; driving in part by what was far and away the highest traffic day ever for the site last Wednesday, when over 5,000 people visited the domain.
20 Years
So I celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System Tuesday by playing one of my favorite old NES games on the GBA.Sadly, I didn't know about the anniversary until today.
Time Cubed
We tried a bit of an experiment with this week's new Hatbag, and would be interested in hearing your thoughts on it.
Wednesday, 19 October 2005
Lunch
So, for lunch today, I'm doing something so daring and unconventional, that it's likely never been attempted before in human history.Well, that's probably an exageration. But, it's not every day you see cheese on Chinese food.
Nicole made some kung pao chicken and lo mein last night (low-carb, natch), and I put two slices of cheese on my leftovers.
I used to wonder why Chinese food, as a whole, doesn't include cheese on, like, anything, but even after figuring it out, it still seemed like it might be good. And it's not bad at all.
I like cheese.
See, this is exactly why I don't blog more about my life.
Space In The Balance Update
A while back I blogged about how Russia was taking advantage over the uncertainly about future U.S. space plans to invite Japan to become a partner in the Kliper project to develop a new spacecraft that could, among other things, continue to service ISS after the Shuttle fleet is grounded.Now, though, the U.S. is promising Japan the moon, quite literally. Though only informal at this point, NASA has reportedly proposed a deal with Japan in which they would develop a nuclear power reactor for use on the lunar surface, in exchange for which JAXA could possibly get a chance to send an astronaut to the moon.
Rumors are that NASA may propose something similar with ESA as well.
Lost Revenues
Reuters has a story about Apple getting into TV show distribution, saying that Steve will have a harder time getting the film and television industry onboard than he did the music industry.According to the article, Apple had talks with other networks about selling their content the way their are ABC's, but the others didn't sign on, reportedly over the price point.
OK, what am I missing here? I mean, the way I see it -- hey, free money. I mean, if I miss an episode of Lost, to be honest, I'll download it from the internet. Which makes zero revenue for the network. I have a friend at work that can't watch Smallville, so I tape it for her. Again, zero revenue for the network. Someone else might catch a rerun. Don't know exactly how much that affects the bottom line -- how, exactly, advertising revenues for reruns are determined.
But on the iTMS as of this writing, two of the top five selling videos are Lost, and the fifth is Desperate Housewives. Don't know how many downloads it takes to get to that point, but, again, that's revenue they wouldn't otherwise have had. At little to no loss of revenue elsewhere. So the downside is what, exactly?
Now, granted, when it starts competing with DVD sales, there's an issue, but it seems there are ways of dealing with that.
The article also notes that piracy is not the same sort of issue for the film and TV industry as it was for the music industry. (Though, to be fair, my opinion of the music industry's problems is a lot like my opinion of those of the newspaper industry -- blame the internet all you want, but the real problems you're causing yourself.) But, to my, that's exactly the reason to do it now. Undercut the piracy problem before it develops the sort of infrastructure that's going to stay solid even after you provide a legal alternative.
But, whether they like it or not. The change has begun. Apple has already changed the music industry. The question for the film and TV execs is, do they get on board or get left behind.
Apple Roundup
Lest you forget, there's another Apple announcement at 11 a.m. CDT today, at which Apple will unveil their "latest pro innovations."In addition to speed bumps for PowerMacs and/or PowerBooks, there are rumors that some new photo-related technology will be announced, particularly since the event is not only on the eve of NYC's PhotoPlus Expo 2005, but Apple has apparently quietly planned a major presence at the Expo.
Then, of course, there are the Vingle rumors.
This blog's handicapping for the announcement: I expect to see decent PowerMac upgrades, and an application that's a more Photoshop-y version of iPhoto. (Getting more detailed, it wouldn't surprise me for it to be a stand-alone application you have to purchase, with an initial price point between $100 and $150.) Possibly some new photo-related hardware, but I have no idea what it would be. If there's some big surprise, though, that's what it would be. I'm betting no Vingle this time around. Possible PowerBook upgrades, but, if so, nothing too substantial, and without the built-in iSight that's been rumored.
On a side note, unrelated to the announcement, Jobs says he's happy with the ROKR experiment, and that more phones are coming, phrased in a way that's leading some to speculate that Apple might even get in the hardware game next time. (Though, to be fair, that's been speculated before, so one has to wonder how much is insight and how much is wishful thinking. That said, I'd be all in favor of it.)
Tuesday, 18 October 2005
Disclosure
Plan B
This article starts out as if it were a news story, but, by the end, turns into an editorial, so read with a grain of salt. From Spaceref.com:NASA is faced with a dilemma right now: It wants to fly 19 Space Shuttle missions - 18 to the International Space Station (ISS) and one mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope between now and the end of FY 2010. The problem is that NASA simply does not have the money to do this. As it has been preparing its FY2007 budget NASA identified $5.6 billion in so-called "over-guideline" costs needed to support these missions - at the rate it wanted to fly the missions.
Two alternate approaches are currently under serious consideration - in real time - at NASA. One, the so-called "Serial Processing" option would reduce the shuttle flight rate to 2 missions per year, cut the workforce, stop building the ISS, and live with the consequences.
The other approach would fuse current Space Shuttle, ISS, and Exploration development closely together such that existing capabilities could support emerging ones - all this serving to allow ISS assembly to continue further.
Don't Call It A Comeback...
...'Cause, really, that would be exagerating things quite a bit.Still, Apple's U.S. marketshare increased by more than 30 percent during the third quarter this year, with a sales increase four times the industry's overall increase.
Of course, that means that Apple's market share in the U.S. increased from 3.3 percent to 4.3 percent, but, still, that's progress.
Maud'DVD
Sure, the SciFi miniseries version of Dune was good, but, let's face it, in terms of total Sting content, it was no David Lynch movie version. Dune fans will be glad to know that the three hours extended version will hit DVD on Jan. 31.
Monday, 17 October 2005
STS-121 Update
NASA continues to work towards a possible May launch date for STS-121, as the agency grows closer to answers to the foam-shedding issues encountered during the STS-114 mission.
Back To Earth
The crew of Shenzhou VI returned to Earth safely yesterday afternoon CDT after a successful five-day mission.
One More One More Thing
Apple is having yet another new product announcement event on Wednesday, presumably this time to announce that they have used up every single new idea they had, until next year.Or possibly to reveal some new Power* machines. (The invitation says the event will "unveil Apple's latest pro innovations.") There are also rumors that there will be some sort of photography-related announcement (the event is on the eve of the PhotoPlus Expo, also in NYC), but no clue as to what that might mean.
Sunday, 16 October 2005
Sweet Home Alabama
In providing some context, though, I thought I would share this article from The AP:
Loretta Nall, a 31-year-old mother of two, is running for governor of Alabama when she's not busy with her other duties: writing for Cannabis Culture magazine and serving as president of the U.S. Marijuana Party.
Nall says she doesn't want to be seen as the marijuana candidate for governor.
"I want to be seen as a common country girl doing something anybody could do if they chose to," she said.
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Now she's seeking the Libertarian Party's nomination for governor because the party already has a structure in Alabama and because they agree on a major issue: They want marijuana legalized.
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Nall already is conducting a vigorous Internet campaign, but running for governor as a Libertarian is not easy. Third parties have to collect more than 40,000 signatures from Alabama voters to get listed on the ballot statewide.
Now, I'll be honest -- I really don't know how the Alabama state Libertarian Party works. In other words, I'm clueless whether she's now the Libertarian candidate for the race, or whether somebody else could be. Based on the signature requirement, though, it sounds like the the party has to put all its support behind one candidate, and at this point at least isn't stopping Nall from being that person.
To me, this is just embarrasing. The Libertarian Party, to my mind, has a lot better things going for it than this issue, and choosing someone who is basically a one-note candidate that the majority of Alabamians will see as a wacko paints the party in such an incredibly negative light. I would imagine the Libertarian Party is probably off the radar of a very large number of Alabama voters, and so for those who see this article, I'm sure it will be embedded in their mind as, "Oh, yeah, that drug party."
Stuff like this is exactly why there's a limit to my support of the Libertarian Party. I vote Libertarian often only because I know they are going to lose. That said, when I cast my vote, I wouldn't mind at all if the candidate I was voting for won. (That's true of most Libertarian candidates. I would not want to see Nall take office, and doubt that I will vote for her or even sign the petition, because I don't like the idea of her representing the party to Alabamians). However, while I would love to see some Libertarians in elected office, at the point where there was any danger of Libertarians controlling any political entity, I would probably change my voting at that point.
I'm all in favor of their strongest ideas -- things like personal liberty, lower taxes, smaller government -- becoming a bigger part of national discourse. At the point where Libertarians start having the authority to enact all of their ideas, however, that's when I start getting nervous.
In The Bag
For the Ole Miss folks in the audience, Lain yesterday revealed to me the hidden secret life of Coach O.
Saturday, 15 October 2005
Tag!
Finally, after I reserved and paid for it last year and formally ordered it almost two months ago, my new license plate arrived yesterday:
Friday, 14 October 2005
Today In History
Space In The Balance
So apparently Japan is seriously considering becoming a partner in Russia's proposed Kliper spacecraft.Though there are a number of possible courses of action, Kliper is being positioned as a means for an international partnership to keep the International Space Station program going while the U.S. goes off to play by itself with its moon toys. Russia seems to be using the Vision as a means to become the predominant power in international spaceflight. The problem is not so much that the U.S. is getting out of the game as it is that there is uncertainly about what exactly the future does hold. The U.S. certainly has announced it will be phasing down its participation in the ISS, but what exactly that endpoint is remains somewhat vague. The U.S. has said it would be interested in working with international partners on returning to the moon, but, again, what exactly that partnership might look like also remains vague.
Russia is taking advantage of the uncertainly in an attempt to become the architect behind the future of international space cooperation, coming out strong with a concrete plan with itself at the center. Europe has already signed on, but ESA has always worked with both of the major players and has close ties to Russia. It's been my impression that Canada and Japan have always been closer to NASA than RSA, so a major JAXA commitment to Kliper could signal a major momentum shift in international space relations.
Favor Request
Among the directories ATW is listed on is Alexa, which, among other things, allows readers to review Web sites through Amazon.com. I've already gotten a few hits through Alexa, and would really appreciate it if some of the ATW crowd would be willing to post a review of this site.Just go to this page, and follow the review link on the left-hand side. It would be much appreciated.
iNeediPodiSaid
So, yeah, we posted a new Hatbag yesterday afternoon. It's iTastic!
Blogpoint Opportunity
Thursday, 13 October 2005
Quote Of The Week
"By damn, I will take this hog and I will cure its ham and barbecue its ribs and I will fry up its bacon directly."
--L&M Kitchen and Salumeria ad, The Oxford Town, Oct. 6-12, 2005
Shenzhou 6 Update
Space.com has an article about the first for the Chinese space program that have been accomplished during the Shenzhou 6 mission.SpaceDaily has an article saying that Shenzhou 6 could return to Earth earlier than the originally announced five days. The article cites experts saying that the change could be due to weather conditions at the landing area, which is understandable, and the physical condition of the crew, but doesn't explain what the latter issue involves. One has to wonder what sort of unanticipated physical issues the crew could be having so early in a spaceflight. Space sickness comes to mind, but that would be a poor reason to bring them home early. Of course, there may be nothing to any of this.
Of course, SpaceDaily also has an article quoting Chinese state media as saying: "The spacecraft, which blasted off on Wednesday morning with two astronauts aboard, has slightly deviated from its designed orbit and (is) moving a little closer to the Earth due to gravity." Uh... "due to gravity"? Shouldn't they have taken gravity into consideration ahead of time?
Also of interest is this page about the mission from another Chinese state-owned media outlet. Note the image in the top left corner.
eMac RIP
So apparently the eMac is no more.Though Steve didn't mention it, after the Apple Store was updated to reflect yesterday's announcement, new eMacs are no longer listed on the site, including the education store. (Refurbs, however, are still available in the Special Deals section.)
If the change is, in fact, permanent, it makes sense from an Apple strategy perspective. The eMac was a fish out of water on Apple's product quad, and was recently joined by the Mac mini as an exception to Steve's desire to simplify the product lines. It's G4 processor was also becoming anachronistic (Though no moreso than than in the mini, and, theoretically, could have been upgraded to a G5), to say nothing of its bulky CRT.
Still, for what started off as an odd sort of machine, the eMac was kind of cool. I looked at getting one when I bought my G4 iMac, but at the time, the Superdrive wasn't an option on the eMac. (This was back when the eMac was still education-only, and Nicole was still a college student.) I later had one on my desk at work that I was babysitting for a while, and found it rather agreeable.
Another Lost Post
So the one thing I do have to say about last night's episode of Lost is that I was kinda disappointed about the "Jen speaking English" scene that they threw in the teaser last week. With a show like this, it's kinda sad that they're having to manufacture stuff so the teasers can make the upcoming episodes look more exciting.OK, that's my two cents. Anybody else got any thoughts on the episode?
Wednesday, 12 October 2005
A Few More Things
So...New iPods. New iMacs. New iTunes video. Downloadable TV.
Discuss.
Greetings, Starfighter!
So one day, you're sitting around playing this cool space video game.Next thing you know, the makers of the game advise you that you have been selected, and you're hurling away from Earth on their spaceship.
It turns out that, over the next couple of years, The Last Starfighter will become a reality. Both SpaceShot and Virgin Galactic are planning on launching online video games, with the winners receiving free flights on their suborbital spacecraft.
Beta unit not included.
On Orbit
The sidebar has been updated to reflect that Shenzhou VI is currently in orbit and that, with the addition of Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, the number of people who have been in space has reached 442.Addendum: Shenzhou VI carried the first Chinese newspaper to go into space.
Shiny Apple
Per MacNN:Apple today reported the highest revenue and earnings in the company's history, posting a $430 million quaterly profit ($0.50 per diluted share) on increased revenues of $3.68 billion--a more than 50 percent increase from the year-ago revenues ($2.35 billion) and 400 percent increase over the year-ago quarterly profits of $106 million ($0.13 per diluted share). Apple shipped 1,236,000 Mac units and 6,451,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 48 percent growth in Macs and 220 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter. "We're thrilled to have concluded the best year in Apple's history, with 68 percent year-over-year revenue growth and 384 percent net profit growth," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "This is the direct result of our focus on innovation and the immense talent and creativity at Apple. We could not be more excited about the new products we're working on for 2006."
One More Thing... Reminder
Today. Noon CDT. One More Thing...
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
Eyes On The Prize
OK, we totally have to submit The Leonardo Code into competition for the 2006 Lulu Blooker Prize:The Lulu Blooker Prize is the world's first literary prize devoted to "blooks": books based on blogs or websites.
Awarded in three categories:
Fiction • Non-Fiction • Comics
War Is Smurfy
Per The AP, from Yahoo:BRUSSELS, Belgium - Smurfette is left for dead. Baby Smurf is left crying and orphaned as the Smurf's village is carpet bombed by warplanes — a horrific scene and imagery not normally associated with the lovable blue-skinned cartoon characters.
These are the scenes being shown as part of a new UNICEF ad-campaign on Belgian television.
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The Belgian office of the U.N. children's fund said it has decided to use the creations of late Belgian artist Peyo to shock a complacent public into backing its fund-raising efforts for ex-child soldiers in Africa.
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The video is peacefully introduced by birds, butterflies and happy Smurfs playing and singing their theme song when suddenly out of the sky, bombs rain down onto their forest village, scattering Papa Smurf and the rest as their houses are set ablaze.
The bombs kill Smurfette leaving Baby Smurf orphaned and crying at the edge of a crater in the last scene of the video and finishing of with the text "don't let war destroy the children's world."
Astronaut Rodham
Now here's an interesting alternate history: one in which young Hillary Rodham didn't give up her dream of becoming an astronaut.What if, despite being told in 1961 that girls can't be astronauts, Hillary had had the same level of dedication as women like Shannon Lucid or Rhea Seddon, who would have been the same age in 1961 (and a couple others were only a couple of years younger), and had pursued the goal instead of giving up?
Unfortunately, the really cool possibilities of such an alternate history are unlikely -- to become an astronaut, Hillary would have had to have pursued a technical field, and would thus have been less likely to have attended law school at Yale, and thus unlikely to have married Bill.
But, what if she had? She could have earned an undergraduate degree in a scientific field, but still pursued a legal degree. Enters Yale Law in 1969. Still marries Bill in 1975, but three years later, when NASA announces its first space shuttle astronaut selection, she applies and is accepted, meeting her goal of becoming an astronaut months before her husband first became governor of Arkansas.
Being the career-focused people they are, they happily go along with living the distance from Little Rock to Houston apart. It's only an hour by T-38, so Hillary is able to be there for Bill when she's needed for appearances.
Long story short, he still goes on to become president, the liability of a semi-absentee-wife made up by the coolness factor of the fact she's a freakin' astronaut. And this unlikely scenario becomes even more unlikely: In 1996, Hillary, who was selected in the class that, in our reality, included Shannon Lucid is, instead of Lucid, selected to become the first female NASA astronaut to live on Mir. (How big a coup would that have been for international relations with the post-Soviet Russia?) Due to the grounding of the shuttle fleet, the First Lady is stranded on Mir until Sept. 26, 1996, just over a month before the presidential election.
Like I said, there are plenty of reasons why it wouldn't have turned out like that, but, wow, that would have been an election season.
(Also, a coworker noted that the difference made have had effects in other areas as well.)
ESAS Explained
Spaceref has an in-depth article further explaining the recently announced infrastructure development plan for going back to the moon. The article even includes some cool charts that I hadn't seen before.
Tonight!
The final countdown has begun for the launch of China's second manned spaceflight, Shenzhou VI, which is scheduled for 8 p.m. tonight CDT (Apparently scheduled to compete with "My Name Is Earl").The two-man crew has been selected, but not yet announced. The flight, China's first manned launch in just over two years, is expected to last for five days, and to make use of the Shenzhou orbital module for the first time, giving the taikonauts a little room to move.
Here's wishing them a safe flight!
New Voyages News
The Star Trek New Voyages team has produced a one-year-anniversary special edition of their second episode, "In Harm's Way," along with an audio commentary.In other New Voyages news, filming has wrapped on the Fontana-penned, Koenig-starring third episode, "To Serve All My Days," as well as a series of vignettes. The first short, "Center Seat," will be available for download in the middle of next month.
Back On Earth
After over 179 days in space, the Expedition 11 crew of the International Space Station has returned to Earth, along with spaceflight participant Greg Olsen.Exp. 11 commander Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth as the cumulative spaceflight duration record-holder, with a total of 803 days in space on his six spaceflights, four of which were long-duration Mir and ISS flights, meaning that he has spent more than two years and two months of his 47 years in space.
iPaper
From The New York Times:SOMETIMES what appears to be a threat is actually a life preserver.
The poor defenseless music industry cowered - then prosecuted - when the monster of digital downloads came lurching over the horizon. Then the iPod came along and music looks like a business again - a smaller business, eked out in 99- cent units - but still a business.
Cable channels were supposed to gut network television, but instead have become a place where shows like "Seinfeld" and "Law and Order" are resold and rewatched. The movie industry reacted to DVD's as though they were a sign of the imminent apocalypse, and now studios are using their libraries to churn profits.
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Putting print on the grid is a necessity, because the grid is where America lives. But what the newspaper industry really needs is an iPod moment.
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Consider if the line between the Web and print matter were erased by a device for data consumption, not data entry - all screen, no baggage - that was uplinked and updated constantly: a digital player for the eyes, with an iTunes-like array of content available at a ubiquitous volume and a low, digestible price.
On a side note, you'll note that this is the first post in the newly-created-but-long-needed "Media" category, giving official recognition to media issues as one of the topics ATW covers.
Half A Game
Of course, that second half didn't stop several people from running "Fire Orgeron" searches on Google that day. (Note to people coming here on that search: If anyone needs to go this year, it's Pete Boone, not the coach.)
That said, having missed the second half, I've seen the outcome, but have no feel for how we got there. Did we get better or get lucky, or did they get worse?
Monday, 10 October 2005
Question:
So, just out of curiousity, do you remember the last music cassette tape you bought?
I was trying to remember the last one I bought, and I have no clue.
I don't remember buying one since Nicole and I have been together (though I could be wrong), which would have placed the last one before 99' , but I do remember buying tapes not infrequently as recently as '96 or '97, so it must have been sometime during that period.
I fear that the last tape I bought may be something I picked up just because it was incredibly cheap, like the post-Milli Vanilli "Fab & Rob" album that is probably still in the shrinkwrap.
Movie Note
So we watched the new Wallace & Grommit movie last night.
Good stuff.
I'd enjoyed the three shorts they made so far, and found that it held up rather well in a full-length feature.
Enjoyed Ralph Feinnes (in the second of the three movies he could have in theaters all at once this fall) in perhaps his least Ralph Feinnes-y role to date.
Goods stuff.
Saturday, 8 October 2005
Hello
Won't be much blogging today, as I'm in the wasteland of dial-up.
About to go to the Ole Miss homecoming.
Sitting here ripping the new Liz Phair album.
Hope all is well with all y'all out there in ATW land.
Friday, 7 October 2005
Blogpoint Opportunity
Thursday, 6 October 2005
Elvish Presently
Whoops, almost let the day go by without remembering to mention that there's new Hatbag up on the Hatbag site. Enjoy.
Cooooooooooooon!
So theyre having a con in H'ville this weekend. Only name I recognized was James P. Hogan, having totally dug Inherit the Stars in high school.
Addendum: Also, the Southern Festival of Books is this weekend in Nashville. FWIW.
Lost Again
So if you got any Lost discussions, post 'em here.
What's Old Is New
Though NASA has made much of the fact that the implementation plan for returning to the moon draws heavily on the use of existing technology from the space shuttle and Apollo programs, this article has an interesting analysis of the development necessary to adapt these proven technologies for new uses, since the plan will require doing things with solid rocket boosters and SSMEs that have never been done before.
iSpeculation
This site has some speculation about the video-capable iPod rumored to be announced next week, including some mock-up photos.Personally, I suspect this person is building it up to be cooler than it actually will be, which is good, 'cause if it's at least this cool, I'm going to have to add a fourth iPod to my collection post-haste.
Wednesday, 5 October 2005
Abnormal Acting
Tutor has started a log of his experiences as a newly minted movie star over on his blog.
STS-114 Update
Per The AP, from Space.com:Workers may have accidentally cut or crushed the section of foam that broke off Discovery's fuel tank during its launch two months ago—a mishap that threatened the safety of the astronauts and grounded the shuttle fleet.
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What probably happened is that during modifications to the tank at Michoud, technicians inadvertently damaged the section that ended up coming off, while working on nearby areas, Hale said. "This foam, which normally is not touched after it's applied, clearly was touched," he said.
Eat For Good
If anyone's interested in eating out for a good cause, participating restaurants will be donating money to hurricane relief from proceeds today.
Future Relics Of The Past
Those following the nascent private human spaceflight scene are aware that the Canadian Arrow, which is scheduled to begin carrying people on suborbital spaceflights in a couple of years, is based heavily on the design of the old V-2 rocket. In fact, it's modeled so closely after the V-2 that the nose and tail sections are identical to the German missile.So it turns out that there is a museum that includes the pad that was the site of the first U.S. V-2 launch. At the moment, a smaller rocket is standing in for the V-2, since there are so few V-2s remaining that the museum was unable to obtain one. So, Canadian Arrow has promised that after it has flown its rocket enough to have some spare parts, it will use decommissioned flight components to construct a replica V-2 that it will donate to the museum.
Moving Cult
Wired's Cult of Mac blog has a new home. And a bunch of updates. FWIW.
One More Thing...
So before the announcement that saw the release of the iPod nano and the ROKR phone, the other big speculation was that Apple would use the event to announce a new video-capable iPod. That rumor, though, was the biggest one that didn't pan out during that event.A week from today, though, Apple will be announcing One More Thing...
Saturday
So there's a chance that we may be in Oxford this weekend for homecoming. Anybody else in the ATW crowd planning on being there?
Tuesday, 4 October 2005
Superman Caged
Actor Nicolas Cage's wife gave birth to a son yesterday: Kal-el Coppola Cage.Superman trivia buffs will recall that Death of Supes artist Jon Bogdanove also named his son Kal-El, Benjamin Kal-El Bogdanove is in college today, still goes by his middle name, and is apparently excelling in film. According to his Emerson College profile:
Kal-El is the RA on the 7th floor of the LB, also known as the digital culture floor.
He makes movies, and loves a girl named Gillian Smith.
He is named after Superman.
'Nuff said.
New Voyages
Rick Berman is recruiting staff for an eponymous television production company. The company will develop concepts for new television series (apparently for Paramount). While the teaser sentence at TrekToday describes Berman as the former Trek executive producer, the article doesn't indicate he's abdicated whatever Trek duties he still has. That said, one could hope that this new venture will help motivate him to move on with his life.
Today In History
Today, of course, is one of the most important dates in spaceflight history (tied, I would argue, with April 12).
On this date, 47 years ago, the space age began with the beep heard 'round the world when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I.
October 4, though, marks not only the beginning of the space age, it's an important milestone in the birth of the era of private spaceflight, as well; with today marking the first anniversary of SpaceShipOne winning the Ansari X Prize.
On Shelves Today
On shelves today of possible interest to the ATW crowd (and not listed in any of the ad flyers in my paper this weekend) are the special edition of Star Trek:Nemesis and Somebody's Miracle, the new album from Liz Phair.
Monday, 3 October 2005
The LC At NASA
Check it out:If you read the last three paragraphs of this Science@NASA article, they contain what has to be a shout-out to our ATW book.
All These Posts
I meant to make a note of the 2,500th post on this blog, but it slipped past me.That said, between both incarnations of the Daveblog, the last post I made was number 6,050. I made 3,510 posts on the old YMFTB and ATW between Feb. 19, 2003 and Aug. 18, 2004 at the old Blogger-powered site at the old address, and my last post was number 2,540 since Aug. 19, 2004 at the Pivot-powered site at the current address.
For those keeping count.
Regular Richie Feature
Search strings for the first weekend of October:- mac longhorn
- steve jobs
- funny kitten
- black hippie
- in a mirror darkly
- nasa exploration logo
- noah's ark found
- spongebob jordans
- ''gifs Omega X Megaman zero''
- AllTheseWorlds
- Dave Hitt
- Degrassi: The next generation venus episodes 1 and 2 video
- Expedition 12 launch pics
- Pictures Of ov-099
- Soyuz
- astronaut eating
Today In History
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on the 51-J mission.
Also on this date, in 1962, Wally Schirra became the third American to orbit the Earth on the Sigma-7 Mercury mission.
Nineteen Flights
The Space Shuttle fleet will fly a maximum of 19 flights before the orbiter is retired in 2010, assuming there are no more foam loss-like problems or facility damage from extreme weather.
Eighteen will be International Space Station (ISS) assembly and logistic flights and the nineteenth will be the Hubble space telescope repair flight.
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The planned 18 ISS flights will see the European Columbus and Japanese Kibo modules launched to the station. However there is a question mark over the future of the remaining Russian ISS modules, one of which was to be launched by shuttle.
The final 19 flights would be three in 2006 and four in each of the subsequent years.
Nineteen flights would also mean that ISS modules such as Node-3 would not be launched. This was thought to be needed to expand the ISS crew from three to six. However NASA claims this is not the case.
On The Moon
Marshall Space Flight Center has been selected to manage a project to develop the first new U.S. space probe to land on the moon since Apollo.The spacecraft, scheduled to launch no earlier than 2010, will search for water and other resources in the lunar regolith, and could be used to scout future landing sites for human missions.
Moon Over 2003 UB313
So it turns out that quote-tenth-planet-unquote 2003 UB313 has a moon. Astronomers have descciovered an object 100 times fainter than the world orbiting it every couple of weeks. (The moon, orbiting the world codenamed Xena has, of course, been temporarily dubbed Gabrielle.)The discovery is being presented as an another argument for 2003 UB313's status as a planet, but given that asteroids can have moons, I'm still not convinced.
Fire Pete Boone
That said, we were only able to watch or listen to very small bits of Saturday's Tennessee game, ironically because we were in Tennessee.
From the final result, it's hard to judge -- sadly, it looks like it might have been one of our better games, but it's hard to say.
Orgeron is hopeful:
"I understand their passion for Ole Miss football. I can understand their being impatient right now," Orgeron said before the Tennessee game. "I just want to let our fans know that we're bringing this football program along and we're going to get there. We're building our program here from the ground up."
I hope he's right; I really do. So far, I don't see it, and I don't see the benefits of the coaching change.
Sunday, 2 October 2005
The Next Leonardo?
So The Leonardo Code is almost finished, and November is approaching once again, and I was going to throw out an idea for a follow-up ATW group writing project.The impression I've gotten talking to people over the past year is that the biggest stumbling block that prevented people from doing more LC writing was the steep learning curve necessary before posting an addition. Before you could add anything, you had to be caught up on the whole story, and, let's face it, at times it wasn't the easiest story to completely keep track of.
In hopes of spurring more involvement, I've come up with an idea for another project that should be easier for people to write -- rather than an ongoing novel, this idea would essentially be an anthology. Each addition would basically be a stand-alone story; there would be one unifying element that would run through the whole thing tying them all together, but, essentially, in order to add something new, instead of having to read everything written up until that point, you would basiclaly only have to read a few words and you're ready to go.
The trade-off is that it's a bit higher-concept than The Leonardo Code, it doesn't have the intrinsic wackiness that The LC does, but there's no reason that the idea that I have wouldn't still be open to a good bit of variety in the stories; possibly even moreso than The LC.
Anyway, I'd really appreciate hearing everyone's thoughts. If you posted anything to The LC, or even if you're a regular reader of ATW who didn't add anything to The LC, I'd love feedback, be it what you think of the idea, what would make you more likely to participate, or even just why there's really no chance at all you'd participate.
The LC has been such a great experience for me over the past year -- as most of you know, I write a lot, on several different projects, and The LC was always the one that I could turn back to any time I needed an outlet for the sort of creative writing that I just couldn't do elsewhere.
Saturday, 1 October 2005
Magnificent Desolation
So I celebrated the 47th anniversary of NASA today by going to watch Magnificent Desolation at the 3D IMAX theater in Nashville. (Not only does this movie open two months late here in Huntsville, it won't be in 3D due to the unfortunate decision to use a dome for the IMAX screen here.)Basically, I was really pleased, and somewhat disappointed. The disappointment, though, was just from having my expectations too high. The movie bills itself as showing the experiences of the Apollo astronauts on the moon, but it spends too much time for my tastes on other things, some of which were OK, some of which less so.
That said, when it's doing what it's supposed to do, it does it very, very well. The Apollo recreations are incredible, and well worth going to see. Good stuff.
Monday, 31 October 2005
Leonardo Code Update
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iSmash
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Editorial Note
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iTMS: The Next Generation
(Read Entry)Sunday, 30 October 2005
ATW Book Review -- The Space Tourist's Handbook
(Read Entry)Saturday, 29 October 2005
Editorial Note
(Read Entry)Friday, 28 October 2005
ATW One Million
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CIVIV
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Marge's Head
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Gag Me With A Pumpkin
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Another Blogpoint Opportunity
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Non-Blogpoint Opportunity
(Read Entry)Thursday, 27 October 2005
Editorial Note
(Read Entry)Wednesday, 26 October 2005
Lobot Horocaust
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Pod Of Brix
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Jobs In Leadership
(Read Entry)Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Hey...
(Read Entry)Monday, 24 October 2005
Leonardo Code Update
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An Open Letter To Paramount
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Oh, Yeah
(Read Entry)Saturday, 22 October 2005
Hrm
(Read Entry)Friday, 21 October 2005
Movie Poll
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Playlist
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Appleture
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Blogpoint Opportunity
(Read Entry)Thursday, 20 October 2005
Starr Tours
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Editorial Note
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20 Years
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Time Cubed
(Read Entry)Wednesday, 19 October 2005
Lunch
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Space In The Balance Update
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Lost Revenues
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Apple Roundup
(Read Entry)Tuesday, 18 October 2005
Disclosure
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Plan B
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Don't Call It A Comeback...
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Maud'DVD
(Read Entry)Monday, 17 October 2005
STS-121 Update
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Back To Earth
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One More One More Thing
(Read Entry)Sunday, 16 October 2005
Sweet Home Alabama
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In The Bag
(Read Entry)Saturday, 15 October 2005
Tag!
(Read Entry)Friday, 14 October 2005
Today In History
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Space In The Balance
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Favor Request
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iNeediPodiSaid
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Blogpoint Opportunity
(Read Entry)Thursday, 13 October 2005
Quote Of The Week
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Shenzhou 6 Update
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eMac RIP
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Another Lost Post
(Read Entry)Wednesday, 12 October 2005
A Few More Things
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Greetings, Starfighter!
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On Orbit
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Shiny Apple
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One More Thing... Reminder
(Read Entry)Tuesday, 11 October 2005
Eyes On The Prize
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War Is Smurfy
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Astronaut Rodham
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ESAS Explained
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Tonight!
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New Voyages News
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Back On Earth
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iPaper
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Half A Game
(Read Entry)Monday, 10 October 2005
Question:
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Movie Note
(Read Entry)Saturday, 8 October 2005
Hello
(Read Entry)Friday, 7 October 2005
Blogpoint Opportunity
(Read Entry)Thursday, 6 October 2005
Elvish Presently
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Cooooooooooooon!
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Lost Again
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What's Old Is New
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iSpeculation
(Read Entry)Wednesday, 5 October 2005
Abnormal Acting
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STS-114 Update
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Eat For Good
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Future Relics Of The Past
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Moving Cult
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One More Thing...
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Saturday
(Read Entry)Tuesday, 4 October 2005
Superman Caged
(Read Entry)
New Voyages
(Read Entry)
Today In History
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On Shelves Today
(Read Entry)Monday, 3 October 2005
The LC At NASA
(Read Entry)
All These Posts
(Read Entry)
Regular Richie Feature
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Today In History
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Nineteen Flights
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On The Moon
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Moon Over 2003 UB313
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Fire Pete Boone
(Read Entry)Sunday, 2 October 2005
The Next Leonardo?
(Read Entry)Saturday, 1 October 2005