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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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This terrific QuickTime VR puts you right on the surface of the moon at Hadley Rille, where Apollo 17 landed. Back in the days of Videodisc, I had a very nice, long NASA disc of Apollo 17 with hours of footage of these guys riding and hopping around the moon. It was a real hoot to watch. These panoramas are fantastic, and I also highly recommend the book Full Moon which reproduces a couple hundred fantastic NASA photos as you've never seen them before. (That Amazon link lets you look inside the book, but the pictures on screen can't hold a candle to what's in the book.)
1:49:34 PM 
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(Historical) Quote of the Day
"Christian morality ...: "
'Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than active; Innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.' In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life: in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character, by disconnecting each man's feelings of duty from the interests of his fellow-creatures, except so far as a self-interested inducement is offered to him for consulting them. It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established; who indeed are not to be actively obeyed when they command what religion forbids, but who are not to be resisted, far less rebelled against, for any amount of wrong to ourselves.' - John Stuart Mill (On Liberty) "
(Via The Wildhunt Weblog.)
12:20:47 PM
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Composer Pierre Boulez: New Recordings: "French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. He turns 80 years old next month. In celebration of his birthday next month, the record label Deutsche Grammophon is issuing five new recordings of Boulez's work. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review."
(Via NPR's Fresh Air from WHYY.)
10:11:42 AM
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Republican Lobbyists on the Rise in Washington: "As President Bush's second term begins, a crowd of Republicans is spinning through Washington's 'revolving door,' leaving government positions to work as lobbyists. Democrats are adjusting to the change as the GOP strives to consolidate its hold on Washington's infrastructure."
(Via NPR's Morning Edition.)
9:46:49 AM
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