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Freitag, 7. Februar 2003 |
S.F. man's astounding photo / Mysterious purple streak is shown hitting Columbia 7 minutes before it disintegrated. Top investigators of the Columbia space shuttle disaster are analyzing a startling photograph -- snapped by an amateur astronomer from a San Francisco hillside -- that appears to show a purplish electrical bolt striking the craft as it streaked across the California sky. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:40:57 PM  comment [] |
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Major Dot-Com Retailers Begin Levying Sales Tax (TechNews.com). Some of the nation's largest retailers this week started voluntarily collecting taxes on all of their online sales. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:40:35 PM comment [] |
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | First notes for 639-year composition. The three notes, which will last for a year-and-a-half, are just the start of the piece, called As Slow As Possible. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:40:03 PM comment [] |
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Wired News: Nuke Plants Aging Disgracefully. Last February, Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant shut down after workers discovered that boric acid had eaten away at 70 pounds of steel, leaving a 6-by-5-inch hole in its reactor head. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:39:39 PM comment [] |
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The Register. Opera Software has accused Microsoft of deliberately engineering the MSN home page in order to make it look as if the Opera browser has a serious flaw in it. And the Norwegian company has published the results of an investigation which it says proves this. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:39:31 PM comment [] |
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Ananova - Hoffman blasts Bush's war plans. Dustin Hoffman has become the latest US star to voice his opposition to war with Iraq. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:39:17 PM comment [] |
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Stapler 2.2.6. I uploaded Stapler 2.2.6 just now. [Mark Paschal: Stapler] |
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New Scientist. Why do we hiccup? It's a question that has vexed great minds for millennia and now, at long last, an international team may have come up with the answer. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:37:47 PM comment [] |
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New Kids On the Blog (TechNews.com). Daypop (www.daypop.com) is a specialty search engine letting users search thousands of Weblogs by entering a keyword or phrase. It also lists the top 40 links appearing on those Web logs. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:37:08 PM comment [] |
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Mark Twain. "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." [Quotes of the Day] 6:34:48 PM comment [] |
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W. C. Fields. "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." [Quotes of the Day] 6:34:30 PM comment [] |
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Hagar the Horrible. "As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something." [Quotes of the Day] 6:34:19 PM comment [] |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.. "Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke." [Quotes of the Day] 6:34:00 PM comment [] |
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H. L. Mencken. "I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them." [Quotes of the Day] 6:33:46 PM comment [] |
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Tom Stoppard. "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." [Quotes of the Day] 6:33:21 PM comment [] |
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Oscar Levant. "I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away." [Quotes of the Day] 6:33:01 PM comment [] |
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GE 'Imagination at Work' Flash Ad. Saw this great Flash ad online, skyscraper banner format with a simple creative based on sketching ideas - more of a brand building exercise than a sales proposition.... [Flash Blog] 6:32:01 PM comment [] |
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Jeremy Allaire has left the building.... Jeremy Allaire is to leave Macromedia, details over at his blog.... [Flash Blog] 6:31:37 PM comment [] |
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Last update: 04.08.2003; 20:37:14
