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daily link  Wednesday, January 07, 2004

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Whiskey River had another wonderful post yesterday -- on generosity (scroll down from the link), from a piece by Stephen Dunn, one of my favorite poets. I have recently been on the receiving end of generosity and I feel quite blessed by it. It's like the concept of grace -- something that just comes to you without having to work for it. It drops in your lap, no strings, out of the goodness of someone's heart. And when that happens to me I feel light and generous myself. Grace. Gracias. 
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NASA scientists get into the Mars Spirit

The Washington Post has a great article on the pictures being sent back by the rover Spirit's panoramic camera. There are good links to images there as well. The NASA scientists are clearly beside themselves. Here are some quotes:

"Trenching into this stuff [the Mars surface] is going to be an absolute blast" once the rover has rolled off its landing platform, said Jim Bell of Cornell, lead scientist for the panoramic camera, or Pancam.

 

"These are the highest resolution pictures of Mars ever obtained. . . . My reaction has been one of shock and awe." Okay, at least this is an appropriate use of the phrase.

 

Looking at the images "leaves me a little bit speechless," said surface operations manager Jennifer Trosper.

 

Lead scientist Don Brownlee of the University of Washington at Seattle gleefully described the comet surface as "ungodly complicated" and "the most feature-rich body in the solar system."

 

Photo: One of two views making up the first 3-D image from Mars, shot by the rover Spirit, shows a rock-strewn landscape. Photo Credit: Nasa, Jet Propulsion Laboratory And Cornell University Via AP.

 
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The internet as the new coffee house

The MIT Technology Review’s weblog links to an interesting article in The Economist that compares the internet with the coffee houses of the 17th and 18th centuries:

“The coffee-houses that sprang up across Europe, starting around 1650, functioned as information exchanges for writers, politicians, businessmen and scientists. Like todays websites, weblogs and discussion boards, coffee-houses were lively and often unreliable sources of information that typically specialised in a particular topic or political viewpoint.”

The Economist article wraps up with how it’s all come ‘round again since thousands of Starbucks now offer WiFi so you can have your internet at your coffee house.

 

[Note this is re-entered from yesterday, minus the comments. I've been hit by comment spam and since Radio doesn't let you delete comments, I have to move to a new comment program.]

 
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