Dec
14
2002

Google Cartoon

The New Yorker has a great Google carton.

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Dec
14
2002

It Never Fails

The weather is is conspiring against me – I’m sure of it. Whenever there is an astronomical event, like last night’s Geminid Meteor Shower, it’s ALEAYS cloudy here. The same holds true for the the aurora.

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Dec
12
2002

Health Related Hoaxes and Rumors

I’ve occasionally posted links to sites that discuss internet hoaxes, email rumors and urban legends and here’s another one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on health related hoaxes and rumors

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Dec
12
2002

End of OS/2

IBM has announced that on March 12, 2003 you will no longer be able to buy OS/2. The most amazing thing to me about this announcement is that you still COULD buy OS/2.

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Dec
12
2002

Teacher in Space

NASA has
announced that Barbara Morgan has been selected for the first flight of a new Educator Astronaut program aboard shuttle mission STS-118 to the International Space Station in November of 2003. Morgan was selected in 1985 as the backup for Christa McAuliffe who died in the Challenger accident. If you’ve ever watched NASA TV during recent shuttle missions, you’ve probably seen Barbara acting as a spacecraft communicator, or CAPCOM, in Mission Control.

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Dec
12
2002

Froogle

Froogle is Google’s new product search engine.

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Dec
11
2002

Technical Difficulties

I love this – it expresses exactly how I feel about recent events in our country.

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Dec
11
2002

Turkish Star Trek

Anyone know where I can get a copy of Turist Omer Uzay Yolunda, a Turkish movie based on Star Trek. It looks like it beats Cosmos Patrol, the Russian Star Trek based Series.

UPDATE: you can order your copy at Mondo Macabro (thanks for the link BigE!).

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Dec
11
2002

Google Timeline 2002

While I’m on the subject of Google, the Zeitgeist Timeline 2002 is now online.

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Dec
11
2002

New Toys from Google Labs

Those fun folks at Google Labs have posted a couple of new toys to play with: Google Viewer displays the pages found as a result of your search as a continuous scrolling slide show, and Google Webquotes annotates the results of your search with comments from other websites.

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