Saturday, August 6, 2005

No kidding I was edgy enough when the shuttle launched again after 2-1/2 years. Now that it's coming home, I'm edgy again. For Americans, Shuttle Return Brings Anxiety. A generation of Americans that has lived through two shuttle disasters is growing edgy as the crew prepares to return. By AMY HARMON. [NYT > Home Page] I so want us to stop sending humans into space to do jobs that satellites and robots can do. We've gained nothing by risking astronauts lives, and nothing by killing two shuttle crews. Nothing but dreadful lessons. The money spent could be much more productively used--how many Hubbles could be built and launched for the cost of fixing the foam problem? 11:52:50 AM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

It's not Big Orange, Dave! Come now, Dave, it's Big Blue, not Big Orange, so of course the XML icon is BLUE! IBM has a podcast feed. . . On the podcasters mail list, Gareth Trent suggests it might bother me that they used blue icons instead of orange ones. Just a teentsy little bit, perhaps, but I'm delighted that they're using the technology in such an effective way. Good work! [Scripting News] 11:47:30 AM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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