Mar
16
2004

Sloan Digital Sky Survey SkyServer

One of the largest astronomy catalogs ever compiled was released to the public yesterday by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Comprised of photometric and spectroscopic observations of the sky gathered during the last two years, this second data release (DR2) offers six terabytes of images and catalogs, including two terabytes in the easy to use SkyServer database. The full database is also available at http://www.sdss.org/DR2/.

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Mar
07
2004

Any player may declare a new rule at any point in the game

Just in case there’s any confusion, The Official Rules of Calvinball.

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Mar
05
2004

Brian owes me, again

One more time, here’s a free link for Brian: free people search online.

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Mar
03
2004

Nuvo

Although the English section of the ZMP website hasn’t been updated yet, you can find pictures of their prototype Nuvo robot in the Japanese section. It’s expected to sell for about $4,600. My first impression is that it’s nowhere near Asimo or Qrio.

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Mar
02
2004

Strip Search

If you’re a Calvin and Hobbes fan, you’ll want to check out Martijn Reemst’s creation:
C.H.E.S.S. – the Calvin and Hobbes Extensive Strip Search. You can do complex boolean searches (like +calvin +rosalyn -calvinball) or search by publication date, and the results show the matching strip and any books it’s been published in.

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Feb
27
2004

Subtly Simpsons

A great collection of lines from the Simpsons that the editors “have found to be particularly witty, often with their humor derived from subtleties of language, esoteric allusions, or just plain wit.”

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Feb
27
2004

Brian Greene Interview

The Morning News has an interesting Brian Greene interview where he discusses contemporary physics and his books.

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Feb
18
2004

The Fabric of the Cosmos

I just ordered a copy of The Fabric of the Cosmos : Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, the lastest book from Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe (and hoping it’s just as good).

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Jan
28
2004

Challenger, Columbia and Apollo 1

On this, the 18th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, a comprehensive timeline of Challenger’s last flight and a similar timeline for the final minutes of the shuttle Columbia’s mission last year.

The loss of Challenger and Columbia have both been memorialized on Mars with the landing site of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover in Gusev Crater being named Columbia Memorial Station and its twin rover Opportunity’s landing site in Meridiani Planum on the opposite side of Mars Challenger Memorial Station.

NASA also memorialized the Apollo 1 crew – Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee -by dedicating the hills surrounding the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit’s landing site to the astronauts. The crew of Apollo 1 perished in a flash fire during a launch pad test of their Apollo spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., 37 years ago yesterday. If you haven’t seen it, the excellent HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon includes a great episode on this disaster.

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Jan
22
2004

15 Minutes of Fame?

Wow! Out of 4.8 million users, randomly selected as SETI@Home User of the Day for January 22, 2004. Guess I’d better save a screenshot of this posterity…

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