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Score two more for Cheny and co.
a couple from wired news on past subjects -- the space elevator and nuclear powers role in future space exploration. gotta think that the elevator would become the ultimate target for terrorism.
America vs. Eruope.
Leonard Lopate with Ropert Kagen and Gore Vidal. (requires realplayer)
supposedly these are the two finalists for the wtc site. thoughts?
just turned on a new dmtree weblog for postings relating to alternative energy called REgenerate. im sure it will be as well received as the ingeniously entitled music blog.
United for Peace
NYC 2/15/03
Oh God, the Space Shuttle Columbia has blown up on reentry. My heart sank to my stomach when the picture came on TV. Seven people on board. It seems so awful, and here we are preparing for war, where we are asked to accept death on a massive scale and just, you know, go with it...
this is an interesting article on 3g technology.
i somehow got logged off windows on my laptop. i have no idea what my password is since the last time i used it was probably when i got this thing 5 years ago. who knew i had a login? how can i be locked out of my computer? this is insane. i have a dummy login but now i've lost all my bookmarks, settings, etc. anyone ever have this happen or know how i can reset the password?
A neutron walks into a bar. ''I'd like a beer,'' he says. The bartender promptly serves up a beer. ''How much will that be?'' asks the neutron. ''For you?'' replies the bartender, ''no charge.''
I can't wait for Alex's comments on this.
This article relates to a discussion some of us were having a few years ago on the use of antibiotics.
A group of Catalan artists and an American architect intend to enter the never-realized Gaudí plan in the formal ground zero memorial design competition of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, scheduled to begin this spring.
we joked about something like this back in those irony free days following 9-11. and sly not reviving just one but both of his movie franchises.
Laura Riding would be 102 today
The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious late mediæval text, written in an unknown script in an unknown language or cypher. It reads as if written fluently, not by someone who was painfully calculating each next character, but by someone who understood what he was writing. It looks like a curious herbal or alchemical treatise, full of diagrams of unknown plants, unknown constellations, and elaborate networks of plumbing inhabited by plump, naked, crowned women.
lawrence lessig's brief response to losing the eldred copyright case in the supreme court.