Ed Headrick
Ed Headrick, inventor who designed the modern Frisbee, died a few days ago, and his family said his ashes will be made into Frisbees. Hendrick said “Frisbee is really a religion….when we die, we don’t go to purgatory. We just land on the roof and lay there.”
BlogMap
Wow! Colby Cosh picked this weblog to represent Alaska on his blogmap – I’m so honored….
Population Counters
Two interesting population-related links: global population counter shows births/deaths for today and the year, and the U.S. Census Bureau’s estimate of the current U.S. population.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edsger W. Dijkstra, creator of the ALGOL programming language, died yesterday. He is perhaps best know for his 1968 ACM paper Go To Statement Considered Harmful .
Janis Ian
Several months ago, Janis Ian wrote an insightful article about music downloading entitled The Internet Debacle – an Alternate View. Her follow-up article Fallout details what she’s learned since then.
OWL moves forward
Looks like the OverWhelmingly Large Telescope has moved a step closer to reality with the European Southern Observatory starting a concept study for the proposed 100 meter diameter telescope.
Cloudmark SpamNet
I’ve just installed cloudmark’s peer-to-peer spam filtering product SpamNet. It looks like a great idea – we’ll see how well it works…
Lots of Robots
Lots of Robots is a great demonstration of what one person can do! Take a look at LOR – the Movie.
Random Things Seen & Overheard
In Passing… a collection of the random things seen and overheard.
Dead Man’s Switch
Dead Man’s Switch – I must have a use for this somewhere…
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