NEAR’s Last Day

Tomorrow is NEAR’s last day – It’s been an interesting year! First of all, it’s pretty amazing that they were able to get the thing into orbit around 433 Eros at all, and landing on the surface is a pretty astounding finish.

Martian Craters

Running SETI@home is a nice passive way to help out with a scientific investigation, but if you want to put out a little more effort you can join NASA’s experimental Clickworkers project and help classify Martian craters.

Io over Jupitor

I really love this image of Io with the clouds of Jupitor as a backdrop from the Cassini Imaging Team.

NEAR’s Landing on Eros 433

OK, I’ll admit that I’m starting to get pretty excited about Monday’s attempted landing of the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on the surface of asteroid Eros 433. Today they have a great animated sequence of the landing on their site. If NASA pulls off the gently, bouncing landing depicted in the movie, it will be quite […]

Troubles at Blogger

And then there was one – troubles over in Blogger land.

Pixelpalooza 2001

The entries for Pixelpalooza 2001 are in over at The Iconfactory. I can never get enough icons (or fonts)…

Challenger Anniversary

Perhaps the Super Bowl got in the way of this getting more widespread attention, but January 28th was the 15th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Playstation 2 Box for Sale

Amazing! This guy actually pulled off selling his empty Playstation 2 box on eBay for $425. I guess the buyer didn’t read the description carefully…

Hmmmm

This week’s router configuration and denial of service troubles at Microsoft lend to an interesting discover at work. Employees started calling, complaining about a LONG delay whenever they started Internet Explorer. A quick look at the proxy server logs showed that, at startup, IE attempts to download a 1-pixel transparent GIF image (hence the delay […]

100th Anniversary of Wireless Transmission

Today marks the 100th anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi’s first ever long-distance wireless transmission from the Isle of Wight to Cornwall on the British mainland.

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