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Much is made lately of the problems at NASA. While some of that criticism is well-deserved (the shuttle program in particular), NASA often gets the shaft when it comes to the projects they got very, very right.
Projects such as the Hubble telescope. Yesterday was the Hubble’s 15th anniversary, the projected end of its service life. [...]

Tons of cool toys and tools for whatever color hat you wear. Use a good browser since some of the sites linked have nasty pop-ups (some got around Firefox).
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I’m a basic computer user who happened to have grown up in a technology-rich world. Computers were everywhere for me beginning about 2nd grade. The kids of the ’90s, those who are now starting college, are steeped in technology in a way that I can’t even imagine. To have never seen a record player [...]

This is more rant than anything, but I’ve been working all day so I need to decompress.
For some reason I was contemplating the software I would immediately re-install if I had a catastrophic failure. From there, I thought about the quality of that software. Then I started looking at some basic stuff, like how [...]

However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful [...]

Like I need to cram more stuff in what has to be an already over-heated box, but this 20-in-1 panel fits into a standard 5.25″ drive bay. All the I/O you could want.
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[via Boing Boing]

Then don’t vote for Rick Santorum. This idiot introduced a bill that’s just vague enough that the National Weather Service (you know, the one that’s tax-funded) might have to take itself offline. I’m not going to quote the article because you need to read the whole thing. The quotes from Barry Myers, Executive Vice President [...]