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More planets discovered in the "habitable region."
We saw the new Ang Lee movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" last night. I heard somewhere (NYTimes?) that you want to break into applause at the end of the first fight scene, and that's exactly what happened in our theatre. Really impressive. They managed to capture exactly what "flying" feels like in my dreams. Not so much Superman-style all out flying, but an almost weightless running, bounding, hopping, floating. Good stuff. Highly recommended.
Space.com has this article about NASA's contact with the 35 year old Pioneer 6 spacecraft.
"NASA successfully contacted Pioneer 6 on Friday, nearly 35 years to the day after the space agency’s oldest working spacecraft was launched into solar orbit on what was to have been a six-month mission. NASA used its 231-foot (70-meter) dish antenna in Goldstone, Calif., to lock onto a signal from the spacecraft’s 8-watt transmitter at 7 p.m. EST. 'We have made contact with the spacecraft and have a downlink from it,' said Washington Downs, the Deep Space Network operations chief at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), halfway through the 2.5-hour tracking period. At the time, the spacecraft was 83 million miles (133 million kilometers) from Earth."(via /.)
More on Tim Berners-Lee's semantic web vision.
Brenda Laural, Brad Wieners, and Douglas Rushkoff on "What ever happened to the cyber revolution, part II."
"My overall point, even though I didn't set out with this as my overall point, isn't that the world needs an Etymologizer, although it desperately does..."
Inside has a long article on the future of copyright law (or, in other words, the future of digital content, or even just the future itself.) This is a good one to read if you are still unsure what all the fuss is about.
Why hasn't the more like this style of blogging caught on? The more I think of how I want my blog set up, the more I come back to something like this. I want each post to have a category (or categories) that it falls into. Then the page becomes more like a database. You could choose to only see web related links, or only see personal posts, or only see posts about travel, or apache, or space, ect... Simple, really, but maybe it is not simple enough? Can you really categorize your interests in a rigid way? Maybe the simple "newest post at the top" blogger style is the most sophisticated thing we can do that still gets lots of people involved.
Looks like Ricoh has a new camera with some of the functionality I've been looking for. With an optional communications card it can do email, ftp, http, fax, as well as create html files containing your pictures. I can't find a price, but probably not cheap.
A little something for the future: the rosetta disk (from eatonweb.)