Spacecraft Films

Spacecraft Films has a growing catalog of DVDs containing all of the television transmissions and onboard 16mm films from Apollo 8, 11, 14 and 15. They also have disks covering the space shuttle Columbia Hubble servicing mission, and the Saturn I, IB and V. Future releases include Apollo 16, 17, Project Mercury, Gemini, and several […]

More Satellite Imagery

Since a lot of people seem to end up here searching for information on SpaceImaging and their photos from the IKONOS satellite, I thought I’d also point out DigitalGlobe whose QuickBird satellite also captures some fantastic images. Check out their gallery and image archive.

Cringley’s Predictions for 2003

Bob Cringely has made his predictions for 2003, and scores his predictions for 2002 (again, 70%).

LEGO NBA All-Stars

For all you LEGO lovers who also happen to be basketball fans, LEGO NBA Basketball. They also have something for you football fans (as defined by the rest of the world, soccer for the Americans).

Airline Meals

AirlineMeals.net has photos of 1563 meals from 192 airlines.

The Connection Machine

I’ve always been interested in novel computer designs, and the Connection Machine CM-1 and CM-2 were among the most interesting from the 1980’s, and their designer Danny Hillis is just as interesting (look at how many times Wired has written about him).

Non-Computer Gift Books

Most of the rest of my birthday/Christmas gifts were also books: The Salmon of Doubt, Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Digital Photography Pocket Guide, Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module, The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Using the Meade ETX, Apollo: the Epic Journey to the Moon, […]

Computer Gift Books

Among my birthday/Christmas gifts were several new computer books to keep me occupied: Dyname HTML: The Definitive Reference, SVG Essentials, Physics for Game Developers, Flash MX Bible, and Leo LaPorte’s 2003 Technology Almanac.

USB Source

Don’t know the difference between USB 1.1 and USB 2.0? Looking for a particular USB device? Everything USB has, well, everything USB.

Christmas Comet

It turns out that living at a high latitude has its advantages – the newly discovered comet Kudo-Fujikawa stays above the horizon all night long. Now, if these clouds would just get out of the way!

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