Wednesday 9 April 2003

Unauthorised Douglas bio gets US publisher Sci-Fi Wire reports that M. J. Simpson aka Simo, former reporter for SFX magazine and a frequent visitor to this shore, has sold the US rights to Hitchhiker: a Biography of Douglas Adams, his unauthorised biography of the creator of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy to Justin Charles & Co., a Boston-based publisher. The UK edition was published in March and the US edition will appear in November with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman. 5:41:39 PM    comment []  Google It!

Geraldo may want to wash his hands One of the blogs I check daily is the Romenesko blog on the Poynter.org Website. The Poynter Insititute is a shcool of journalism in the US and the Romenesko blog tracks developments in the profession. Geraldo Rivera may not be known widely in Europe but he is the Fox Network's star reporter in Iraq. The US military called for his expulsion after he drew a map in the sand showing the disposition of US military forces as part of his televised report. Rivera is back in Iraq where he received an apparently warm welcome from soldiers. However, as this article in Romenesko reports, the welcome may not have been that warm after all. 12:23:37 PM    comment []  Google It!

Google searches in Safari After a hiatus of several weeks while he travelled in Africa, Ken Bereskin is back at the blog face. Ken is one of the top guys in Apple and his blog contains some very useful information about OS X and other Apple applications, like this Safari hint: As you know, Safari includes integrated Google search right in the toolbar. Just type in your search, press return and you are taken directly to the Google results. Coupled with SnapBack (that orange icon that appears after clicking a search result page), this is a very convenient way to browse and search the web. On the Google front, Safari supports a contextual menu with "Google Search" to search based on text that you find on a page itself. Just select the text you want to search on and ctrl-click (or press the right mouse button on multi-button mice) the selection. Choose "Google Search" and you you are taken directly to the results page. [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] 12:16:57 PM    comment []  Google It!

Astronomers Find Galaxies Devoid of Dark Matter Scientific American reports fromt the Ireland/UK National Astronomy Meeting in Dublin that researchers have found three galaxies that are devoid of dark matter. Scientists believe that dark matter makes up 95 percent of the Universe but these findings suggest it is not as pervasive as once thought. 12:05:40 PM    comment []  Google It!

Nasa model 'had wrong data' Engineers who concluded the Columbia shuttle could safely return to Earth used incorrect information, investigators say. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] - Just goes to show the results of a model are only as good as the data you put in. 11:54:10 AM    comment []  Google It!

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