Mar
05
2003

A Century and a Half of Chips

This year is the150th anniversary of the potato chip – created in 1853 by chef George Crum in response to a complaint about his cooking.

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Mar
05
2003

The Old Fashioned Way

PimitiveWays provides all kinds of information on primitive tools and techniques, my favorite being how to start a fire with ice.

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Feb
17
2003

audblog

It’s still in trial-mode, but audblog let’s you post an audio file to your weblog from any phone.

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Feb
10
2003

History of Windows

Two pieces documenting the history of Windows: from Microsoft the Windows Operating Systems Family History , and from SuperSite for Windows an interview with Mark Lucovsky and David Thompson, two of the key figures in the development of Windows NT.

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Feb
09
2003

Just Doing Their Duty

Some thoughts on the Columbia disaster from Buzz Aldrin: Just Doing Their Duty and Fear and Flying .

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Feb
04
2003

The Neighbors

While exploring the Professional Cartoonists Index mentioned in my last posting I ran across the link to the cartoons of David Horsey. Long ago, while attending the University of Washington I lived in a house off campus, and David lived in the house next door along with a couple of other students, Peter Rinearson and Charlie Cross, who all worked on The Daily, the University’s student newspaper.

David was awarded the 1999 Pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning.

Peter won a 1984 Pulitzer prize for feature writing, co-authored Bill Gates’ first book, The Road Ahead, and is now a corporate vice president at Microsoft .

Charlie went on to become the editor of The Rocket, a highly regarded Northwest music and entertainment magazine, and has authored 4 books: Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Nevermind: Nirvana, Backstreets Spingsteen: The Man and His Music, and Led Zeppelin: Heaven and Hell: An Illustrated History.

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Feb
04
2003

Professional Cartoonists Index

Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index has editorial cartoons from over 100 American and 90 international cartoonists. There are also special collections for things such as the Columbia Tragedy, 2002 Year in Review, and Saddammit! The Best New Saddam Cartoons.

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Feb
03
2003

The Brave … And The Doomed?

Amid all of the other stories about the Columbia disaster, there’s a story over at CBS News entitled The Brave … And The Doomed? in which legal analyst Andrew Cohen asks some difficult questions about how much NASA officials may have known about damage suffered during liftoff, and decisions that might have been made about what to do about it.

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Feb
03
2003

Carry On

A Gallup Poll conducted on Sunday February 2, 2003 almost exactly mirrors a similar poll from 1986 after the Challenger disaster, with 82% saying that the manned space shuttle program should continue. Clearly, people were not surprised by Saturdays Columbia accident, with 71% responding that they thought something like this would happen again in their lifetime. A large majority of those polled also think that funding for the U.S. space program should remain at the current levels (56%) or be increased (24%).

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Feb
02
2003

Columbia

I haven’t posted anything, because I’ve found it hard to come up with anything that hasn’t been said a thousand times before….

Here are a number of reports: CNN, CBS News, MSNBC, spaceflightnow.com, space.com, and NASA.

This is my favorite picture of Columbia.

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