Still trying to keep up as Google Reader morphs into a global discussion group; it may eventually need some kind of killfile capability on username since there’s no control over what is shared or commented. It could be Usenet Wars or Listserv Wars all over again. But other than those minor concerns, it’s very cool seeing so much interesting shared content. I mostly read via iPhone app, which lacks the Like and Send To buttons, but if someone can point me to the appropriate Javascript for those, I could save it as bookmarks in Safari and add it to Bookmarks.…
-
-
We are a globeful of dopamine addicts. We endlessly seek and never find the newest new thing. Slate: Seeking Seeking. You can’t stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges’ instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don’t even care about. Nina…
-
Bought a brand new Gateway, struggling to get used to Vista… hope this wasn’t a mistake. Gateway SX2800-01 – CNET TV Oh, well, maybe this was one of those impulse buys, even though C/NET really liked it and picked it for a recent Editor’s Choice award. My previous desktop computer (the one Riley liked to sleep on) would no longer boot up and since there’s a Tiger Direct/CompUSA nearby, it was decided (yay) that I would have a new computer rather than settle for replacing the old CPU and soldiering on with the previous system (which was made up out…
-
Loving the pictures of the lunar landing sites being sent back… you can even see a footpath left by Apollo 14’s astronauts in one image. BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New images of Moon landing sites Photo A US spacecraft has captured images of Apollo landing sites on the Moon, revealing hardware and a trail of footprints left on the lunar surface. The release of the images coincides with the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The descent stages from the lunar modules which carried astronauts to and from the Moon can…
-
I like Winamp for listening to music streams and Internet radio, but can’t stand the annoying address-bar search engine that got configured with it in Firefox. Here’s how to kill and replace it with the search engine of your choice. How to configure Firefox address bar with Search Engines Your Firefox address bar can not only be used for opening websites but also for searching as well. Yes, you can configure the Firefox address bar with various search engines like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft’s Live, and Wikipedia etc.
-
My husband @fallingrock is into Linux, we’re geeks, and @wilw will be there too… very tempting! Penguicon: the free software and science fiction con in southeast Michigan, May 1-3 – Boing Boing “The weekend of May 1 through 3, Penguicon brings together science fiction, open source software, and other geek interests in southeast Michigan. In its seventh year, the attendance target for the convention is one thousand, three hundred and thirty seven. Guests of Honor are ubergeek Wil Wheaton, alternate reality game creator Jane McGonigal, Rasmus Lerdorf of PHP, steampunk author Sarah Hoyt, and John ‘maddog’ Hall of Linux International.…
-
An executive at work today was visiting in the rows of agents and mentioned that she’s acquainted with the commander of the current Space Shuttle mission, Col. Lee Archambault. Discovery is currently docked with the International Space Station. She also mentioned that she’d watched the combined orbital craft cross the sky overhead last night, and that it would make the transit over our area at about 734pm tonight, too. And she was right: Human Space Flight (HSF) – Sightings ***** Schaumburg ***** SAT DATE/TIME Duration/Degrees Elevation/From/Towards ISS Thu Mar 19/07:34 PM 3 39 36 above NW 11 above NE ISS…
-
I started reading this book, but set it aside a while back. Now I need to get back into it, because we’re starting to get to some meaty stuff in the Adult Forum group I’m in at church. We’re discussing Evolution, Creationism Intelligent Design, and whether science and religion are as incompatible as some say. It’s a pretty free-ranging discussion group, as one member studied philosophy, another is a scholarly Jewish guy who runs the program, and the rest of us bring our own take to the party. For instance, I have a background or interest in evolution, paleontology, anthropology,…
-
Unhappy birthday, Governor Blago. Please resign immediately for the good of the state, so Lt. Gov. Quinn can appoint someone untainted by your greed and mendacity as our second U.S. Senator. There are actually fairly recent posted items and photos – Thanksgiving with the Chicago Christian Industrial League, lighting a Christmas tree for an event called “Keeping our kids warm and safe.” I think I must not have the flu, I hardly feel like barfing at all. Detailed Info Website: http://www.illinois.gov/gov/ Gender: Male Relationship Status: Married to Patti Blagojevich Birthday: December 10, 1956 Political Views: Moderate Activities: Governing, Running, Playing…
-
Another glorious image of Jupiter and Saturn, taken in Chile: Night skies over Chilean mountain top observatories can be dark and clear, with glorious cosmic vistas. In this recent example, the plane of our Milky Way galaxy stretches parallel to the horizon, the galactic center’s star clusters, dark dust clouds, and glowing nebulae hovering in the west. Recorded after sunset, the wedge of light extending upward through the scene is Zodiacal light, sunlight scattered by dust along the solar system’s ecliptic plane. A faint meteor was also caught in the view, but approaching a conjunction, brilliant Venus and bright Jupiter…