SciTech Web Awards
Scientific American’s SciTech Web Awards 2002.
Stephen Jay Gould Quote
“Good and kind people outnumber all others by thousands to one. The tragedy of human history lies in the enormous potential for destruction in rare acts of evil, not in the high frequency of evil people. Complex systems can only be built step by step, whereas destruction requires but an instant. Thus, in what I […]
Recontacting NEAR
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is planning to attempt making contact with the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft later this year. The spacecraft landed on asteroid 433 Eros on February 12, 2001 after orbiting the asteroid for a year and returned some spectacular images.
New Search Engine
kartoo – an interesting new search engine.
The Case for the Enpire
Alternate views: The Case for the Empire and the War on Terror is not over yet.
Google Labs
Google Labs – Google’s technology playground.
Water Balloons in Zero-G
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to see a water balloon pop in space?
SETI@Home 3rd Anniversary
Somehow I completely overlooked the fact that yesterday was my 3rd anniversary as a SETI@home participant. 11850 work units and counting…
Wacky Patent of the Month
Over at Wacky Patent of the Month – US Patent #3,216,423: Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force.
The Ultimate Monty Python Site
MontyPython.net – the ultimate Monty Python site with scripts for all shows and movies (plus Fawlty Towers) and over 1000 sounds. I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK….
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