February 8, 2010
Everything ElseStill Waiting
Still waiting for the Movable Type iPhone/iPod Touch app. I mean the WordPress app is on version 2 at least .
Everything ElseStill Waiting
Still waiting for the Movable Type iPhone/iPod Touch app. I mean the WordPress app is on version 2 at least .
February 7, 2010
PhotographyOcean (January 17th)
The more information in the original image the more you can push it to become something that you are happy with. Click on the image to download a bigger copy for your desktop.
February 6, 2010
PhotographyWhite Rhino
One of the White Rhinos at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom. The herd at Disney was increased by one with the birth of a baby girl [Link].
February 5, 2010
PhotographyDriftwood (with shadows)
I always try to carry a camera with me just about everywhere I go. In the last few days I've forgotten to take it along missing more than one opportunity. Got out today for a bit of a walk along the ocean. Remembered to take a camera along. This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago. Just got around to processing it. Really beginning to like this image although it didn't jump out at me at first.
February 4, 2010
Weird WebStuffIf Only The Script Was This Good
Steve Allen knew how to laugh. Love the line "If only the script was this good". It is so nice to have these memories on line to augment our failing memories.
February 3, 2010
60 Second SciFiBird of Prey
I've discovered that NASA is trying to cover up what this picture is all about with a story that this is a couple of astroids that some how colided out in space and are turning into comment. I, and I'm sure others, believe this to be a Hubble picture of an actual Klingon Bird of Prey flying thru the solar system.
February 2, 2010
FYIEFF Celebrates 20 Years
The EFF (Electronic Frontiers Foundation) celebrates it's 20th anniversary this month. Festivities will be played out in San Francisco.
February 1, 2010
60 Second SciFiSpace The Costly Frontier
The President's new budget includes canceling the Bush Era plans to go to the moon. Down here on the Space Coast everyone is a bit panicked by this as there are a lot of jobs involved in space industries (that is why they call it the Space Coast). In actuality what has happened is that Nasa's budget has been increased by $6 billion dollars. As Phil Plait the "Bad Astronomer" says it is actually a good thing as most of the Constellation was simply a rehash of 40 year old technology that might eventually get us back to the moon but with a lot of cost overruns. [Link].
Over at IO9 Annalee Newitz is also thinking positive about the change in direction for Nasa.
In Kim Stanley Robinson's classic Red Mars trilogy about colonizing Mars, he offers a scenario very like the one we're poised to create with Obama's new strategy. Before humans set foot on the Red Planet, a gang of robots are sent ahead to scout habitable locations and construct living quarters. This is by far the most feasible way of colonizing space: It makes no sense to send humans out at great risk and cost to break ground on colonies that can be more easily built by robots. That's why we need to be investing now in the technologies that will make such a scenario possible - and Obama's plan takes great strides toward that.
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