Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Slashback: Brilliance, Delay, Simputer [Slashdot]

Here's a place I didn't even know existed. Thanks to Jon Udell for pointing to Marc Barrot's excellent developer site. I just read all his archives going back to early March. He's onto something.   [Scripting News]

PVR For Linux [Slashdot]

Spaceflight Now.  Three interesting tidbits: Recent studies suggest that the mass of bacteria existing below ground may be larger than the mass of all living things at the Earth's surface... Similar hydrogen-consuming microbes may some day be discovered on Mars, raising new prospects for the possible existence of life beyond Earth, Freund added. "The hydrogen that could feed bacteria in the depth of the Earth comes from a subtle chemical reaction that occurs within rocks that were once hot or even molten. In the top 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) of Earth's crust," Freund said, "the conditions are right to produce a nearly inexhaustible supply of hydrogen. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]