March 25, 2004

Who says space exploration is not worth it? To celebrate the success of NASA's Mars Rover project and the discovery of flowing water on Mars, Long John Silver’s will give every American one Giant Shrimp on Monday, May 10. The company had made an initial offer in January of free shrimp if NASA discovers evidence that Mars once had oceans. While the original time has elapsed and the determination of oceans of water has not yet occurred, the company decided it was time for shrimp. I'm reporting this and I'm Canadian so I guess their publicity stunt is working! 11:06:48 PM

New York Time’s Circuits section gives everyone a case of envy is they describe the advantages of digital single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras over digital point and shoot cameras. They also review the Nikon D70 and the EOS 300D Digital Rebel, the first digital SLR cameras costing about $1000. Advantages include faster start-up times, comtious burst mode, better control over focusing and use of the flash and comptability with numerous lens for optical SLR cameras. The Nikon D70 has cost of $1299 for the body and a lens or $999 for the camera body, the EOS 300D Digital Rebel costs $999 for the body and a starter lens. 11:05:13 PM