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Sunday, February 29, 2004

[Cool] For only $9000, you too can own your very own barrel of Jack Daniels. (News Tribune) [Fark] 8:07:16 PM  Permalink  comment []

Opportunity Watches a Sunset on Mars. A new animation built from a series of photos taken by NASA's Opportunity rover shows the Sun dimly setting in a hazy Martian sky. Although it's a pretty picture, the main purpose for this data is to let scientists calculate the amount of dust in the sky - currently it seems to be roughly double what Pathfinder measured in 1997. Opportunity is partway through its analysis of a piece of the exposed rock outcropping; after this it will exit the crater it landed in, and begin exploring the surrounding flatlands. [Universe Today] 1:37:47 PM  Permalink  comment []

Joining the Debate but Missing the Point. For a productive dialogue, we should be asking the question this way: is giving gays the right to marry good for society? By Nathaniel Frank. [New York Times: Opinion] 1:25:57 PM  Permalink  comment []

Terrorism? What terrorism?. The political problem, for the current administration, is that confronting this means throwing into stark relief the ineffectiveness of the Bush Doctrine -- particularly as it has played out in the invasion of Iraq. It makes all too clear that the current conflict is not only a grotesquely ineffective response to the unique challenges posed by terrorism, it is likely to worsen the problem exponentially. It should be clear that Bush's war on terror is not only making us less safe abroad, its mishandling of domestic terrorism makes us substantially less safe at home. Somehow, one suspects that if Bush's political opponents were to raise this point, they would wind up being called "terrorists" themselves. [the american street] 12:48:54 PM  Permalink  comment []

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