journeys to luna
To the Moon: Our Journeys to Luna (and Back) - A Timeline of Lunar Exploration
Wayback: http://web.archive.org/web/20040215002154/http://www.kokogiak.com/luna/default.asp
To the Moon: Our Journeys to Luna (and Back) - A Timeline of Lunar Exploration
Wayback: http://web.archive.org/web/20040215002154/http://www.kokogiak.com/luna/default.asp
When the researchers looked at how people returned to sites they had visited before, they discovered that context made all the difference. When subjects in their study had the chance to describe a site in their own words and were given the description six months later, they had little trouble finding the site again. Yet in today's typical bookmark applications, users cannot annotate sites they save.
The New York Times: What's Next: Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites in which we learn of a three-year $378,000 grant from the National Science Foundation which, if wildly successful, can simply rediscover the efficacy of weblog as bookmark replacement.
New York officials unveiled plans for the Freedom Tower — the centerpiece of new construction at the World Trade Center site — on December 19th, including plans to incorporate wind turbines that will generate 20 percent of the building's electrical power needs. If built as planned, the Freedom Tower's use of wind turbines would be the world's first large-scale integration of wind turbines into a building. Wind turbines are generally not suited for urban environments because of the turbulence created by nearby buildings, but the height of the Freedom Tower may overcome that difficulty.
EERE: News - World Trade Center's Freedom Tower to Feature Wind Turbines
New York Times: From Simmer to Boil for Alternative Rock Survivors — the Flaming Lips that is.
Seattle Weekly: Shameless Shaman featuring a couple of big jpgs from late Kesey's new jail journal.
Lowell Sun: 'On the Road' but not to Lowell.
Liverpool Echo: Magic mushrooms sold in city shop — "We handed the mushrooms to police." ....
Washington Post Book Report: American Nomads: Travels With Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders.
The Ghetto Blue is also a moving swap meet, where passengers hustle to sell watches, pairs of white cotton socks, incense, Kool cigarettes, lotions, batteries, tapes, CDs and chocolates. ‘What you want? What you need?’ Bus tokens, which come in bags of 10 for $11, become a form of currency here, like food stamps. People peddle them for a small cash profit. ‘Tokens?’ one woman asks anyone on the train within earshot. A couple of Mexican youths rush over and pull out bags of them. The transaction goes down like a drug deal, both participants looking over their shoulders for authorities as they quickly exchange the goods.
originally posted by xowie
Symbiotic relationships between myself and civilized forms of higher animals have been established many times and in many places throughout the long ages of my development. These relationships have been mutually useful; within my memory is the knowledge of hyperlight drive ships and how to build them. I will trade this knowledge for a free ticket to new worlds around suns younger and more stable than your own.
[Terence] McKenna believed that organic hallucinogens provided a window into an experience that was both spiritually significant and literally real. So when the hyperdimensional machine elves talked, he listened. And listened. And listened.
Pit bulls are not mean dogs, at least not where humans are concerned, but when they decide to rebel against this selfish appropriation of their souls, they can kill. This, to me, is comforting: The ultimate decision about animal happiness lies with the animals themselves.
Also in the Weekly, goodbye to local wild man, and my hero, Zorthian.
originally posted by daiichi
In some parts of the world it is considered dangerous to awaken someone quickly as they may not be able to return to their body safely.
Thanks, but would you try telling that to my three-year-old?
"We need to use the quilt to fight AIDS, and you do that by displaying the quilt in as many venues as possible," Jones said in an interview. "I want the quilt to be used to fight AIDS, and if this board doesn't know how to do that, I'm quite capable of doing that myself."
originally posted by xowie
The highest grade (an "A+") went to U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who said last May that he supports medical marijuana "without reservation." Following close behind in the grading were former Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL) -- receiving an "A" -- and U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) -- with an "A-" -- both of whom indicated support for federal medical marijuana legislation. On the next tier were retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark (D-AR) -- earning a "B+" -- and the Rev. Al Sharpton (D-NY) -- earning a "B" -- who also pledged to stop the raids.
Front-runner and former Governor Howard Dean (D-VT) received a "D-."
originally posted by xowie
Great L.A. Times feature on industrial hemp.
originally posted by xowie
Another time, we were together at a rave in San Francisco and when one of the kids there asked me who he was, I told her that he was Timothy Leary. Word spread fast. Spalding came over looking alarmed and said, "They think I'm Timothy Leary for some reason. What should I do?" "Don't disappoint them," I advised. And he didn't. He spent the rest of the night answering their questions with marvelously oblique answers that Tim would have loved.
originally posted by xowie
I kick it back with a cordless mouse, and thus like the idea of this “mouseboard,” although it doesn’t work terribly well in practice. As it turns out, Windows XP already includes an effective on-screen keyboard. I’m sure OSX has a similar feature, right, gentlemen?
originally posted by xowie
‘The glaciers are melting, the glaciers are melting!’ yelled artist Leo Limón of the L.A. River Cats Project good-naturedly. ‘Get a hybrid! Get some rims on it! A big stereo!’ But the dads in Dockers with well-fed children and pregnant wives could not be persuaded to contemplate torn-up wildlife habitats, toxin-choked air and children with missing limbs. They were here to revel in the glory of cars.
originally posted by xowie
To Major-Label Hell and Back by Alison M. Rosen
originally posted by xowie
Mark Frauenfelder: “My six-year-old daughter is on the CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening) list as a security risk.”
"Two Wongs don't make a Wright." No, that's not a typo. It's the punchline in an upcoming installment of the comic strip "BC" by Johnny Hart, referring to two Asian characters who fail in their attempt to build a working airplane — a play on words about the first flight of the Wright brothers. Unfunny, stupid, and offensive. A few papers have already decided to not to run it: Two newspapers substitute "B.C." comic strip. It's a lame, cheap pun, at the expense of Asians. AND TOTALLY UNORIGINAL, lifted from a freakin' t-shirt. Been there, done that, with Abercrombie. That's racist!
Speaking of racist Johnny, I'd be interested to see when the ants first appeared in B.C. I can't imagine it's a coincidence that all these jokes with ants are about underperforming public schools. The ant world is a whole separate society generally invisible to the white characters in the strip.
Carl, the first of their children to live past infancy, born on July 26, 1875, in the small town of Kesswil, Switzerland, was an introverted, solitary boy who, in keeping with family tradition, had dual personalities (''a clumsy, awkward, mathematical dunce of a boy living in real time at the end of the 19th century'' and ''an old man living in the 18th century who dressed in high-buckled shoes, wore a powdered wig and drove a fine carriage'') and mystical visions, including one of God dropping excrement on a cathedral.
originally posted by xowie
It's always recognisable, 17 years later. Brooklyn has such a recalcitrance... it wants to be renovated or gentrified, and it tries and tries again, and those changes are enormous, but at the same time there's some deep resistance. The place is so eccentrically and paradoxically itself that it can't ever be completely overturned. So when I walk around here, in my eyes I can see 1972 and 1975, you know, lying around in chunks, where it was left.
Telegraph.co.uk: Brooklyn boy Jonathan Lethem.
His name was Kenneth Howard, and he was born in 1929, the year the stock market crashed. He was the son of the sign painter who is said to have created the Western Exterminator logo that shows a man in sunglasses, top hat and frock coat, bent over with his finger wagging, as if to reason with the rodent at his feet. Behind his back he holds a huge mallet, should reason fail. According to art and pop culture authority Craig Stecyk, Kenneth inherited his dad’s sign-painting box and talent. He was painting and lettering professionally by age 10, gave birth to the flying eyeball—and earned his famous nickname for being "as stubborn as a Dutchman."
originally posted by xowie
It's been said that this year's "Worst. Macworld. Ever." was really about GarageBand, and I agree, although personally I'm most pleased that iPhoto will finally be able to handle my photos as one library rather than seven. The only reason I'll continue using iPhoto Library Manager will be to sequester certain photos from those intended for a general audience.
But George McGovern was right by James Carroll.
originally posted by xowie
The nucleus of Comet Wild 2. w00t! Stardust.
originally posted by xowie
Many, many hundreds of those stars which you could look up and see with the naked eye, most of which are actually very close, would potentially have terrestrial planets similar to the earth and Mars and Venus.
MarsDaily: Australian astronomers identify possible cradle of alien life.
