From NASA: NASA announced plans to name the landing site of the Mars Opportunity rover in honor of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final crew. The area in the vast flatland called Meridiani Planum, where Opportunity landed this weekend, will be called the Challenger Memorial Station. The seven-member crew of Space Shuttle Challenger was lost when […]
Stolen from Slashdot: “How old is the oldest known technical manual? About 613 years, it seems. Written in 1391 by Geoffrey Chauncer for his ten year old son Lewis (Lowys), the manual explains in great detail but very rough spelling and grammar, the intricate workings of the Astrolabe–the predecessor to the sextant. Read Chauncer’s ‘A […]
Jacques Chicrac wasn’t so much better-than-thou as he was cruder-then-thou in his opposition to the Iraq invasion. Read the story
Once again, completely stolen from Boing Boing: Unlike many nonsensical prejudices, it’s roughly possible to trace the root source of all this hostility, identify a locus classicus of Ikeaphobia: in this case, the vastly-overrated Fight Club. Ever since the film hit American screens, some years ago now, it’s been hip among would-be cynics of a […]
You know, when I read things like this, it makes me just sigh deeply and wonder where all the good people have gone. I think the Python’s had it right; “We don’t have a lord. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week…” […]
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Totally stolen from Fark. Stick figure warning signs
I don’t think HP had this in mind when they turn their CEO loose at CES. Good job HP! You finally start making products almost worth buying, then you give everyone a political reason not to buy those products. Bravo! HP users cry foul at death of the open PC
I never thought I’d have a reason to watch CNBC, but now I do. Dennis Miller is back on the air.
Just a gratuitous link since I’ve read all this stuff already, but Cory Doctorow blew me away when I first read Ownz0red on Salon. See the rest of this post for links to many of his stories. Cory operates on the Creative Commons license (thanks to a generous publisher) and his work is freely downloadable, […]