22
2002
Did Quark Matter Strike Earth?
Researchers looking for evidence of strange quark matter have identified seismic events that might indicate the passage of strange quark matter through the Earth. One event occurred on 22 October, 1993, when, according to the researchers, something entered the Earth off Antarctica and left it south of India 0.73 of a second later. The other occurred on 24 November, 1993, when an object entered south of Australia and exited the Earth near Antarctica 0.15 of a second later.
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21
2002
Where Demolition Comes Alive
Everything you’d ever want to know about explosive demolition is over at ImplosionWorld.com. They’ve got a photo gallery, videos and the “History of Structural Demolition in America” (as well as a world records section). They’ll also send you email notices of upcoming live webcasts of building demolitions.
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21
2002
Birthday Gifts!
Hank showed up last night with a birthday gift (a little early). It was a copy of Leo Laporte’s 2003 Technology Almanac, which immediately paid for itself when we popped the enclosed disk into the DVD player and found the solution to the problem Hank was having with the new disk drive he was trying to install. Only a couple more days until I find out if Michele comes through with that Tivo…
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20
2002
Cornell Athena Team
The Cornell University Athena Mars Exploration Rover team has interesting weekly updates on their website that provides an inside look at the troubleshooting involved in getting every last detail just right on the two rovers before their launches next summer. You can follow their progress as they fix one problem after another. They also have a sample picture taken by one rover’s camera that shows the quality of the images we can expect to see from Mars.
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19
2002
Supercomputing Leapfrog
IBM announced today that they’ve been awarded a contract to build the world’s fastest supercomputers for for the U.S. Department of Energy. The two systems, ASCI Purple and Blue Gene/L, together will have more computing power than all 500 of the systems on the current TOP500 List of supercomputers.
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18
2002
Does it Work?
Does It Work? reviews those gadgets you see advertised on TV, like the Auto Hammer, Hairagami, and Handy Stich.
18
2002
Lorem Ipsum Generator
Handy background info on Lorem Ipsum and a Lorem Ipsum generator over at Lipsum. Just in case you ever need it, here’s another text generator for legalese.
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18
2002
Toiletology 101
Everything you’d ever want to know about toilets can be found at Toiletology 101: Lesson Plan for Toilet Repair Course.
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17
2002
Floaties
I think the first one I ever owned was from the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair (it had a monorail), and now Float Art Design’s lets you create your own custom design float pen, or if you prefer, a virtual “floaty”. Be sure to check out their gallery.
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15
2002
Earthquake Alerts
Skimming through some of the sites that have information on this month’s magnitude 7.9 Denali earthquake, I ran across Seismo-Watch which offers earthquake alert bulletins via email, pager, cell phone, pda or fax.
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