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Setting Sail Into Space, Propelled by Sunshine
“About a year from now, if all goes well, a box about the size of a loaf of bread will pop out of a rocket some 500 miles above the Earth. There in the vacuum it will unfurl four triangular sails as shiny as moonlight and only barely more substantial. Then it will slowly rise [...]
Get Ready for HTML 5
A good overview of HTML 5 capabilities by J. David Eisenberg on A List Apart.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/get-ready-for-html-5/
Some useful features are:
Integrated regular expressions for form input validation.
Support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
A blank canvas object for drawing what you want, using Javascript. An example would be a real-time chart.
Integrated video support, which could break dependance on Flash and Silverlight [...]
Can Do - A Visual Exploration of Benjamin Franklin’s Inventions
A visual exploration of Ben Franklin and his innovations:
http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/can-do/?ref=opinion&8ty&emc=ty
Mir Diamond Mine
A Russian kimberlite pipe, mined for diamond. 1720 feet deep and 3900 feet across. Closed April 30, 2004. Filling with some real toxic water, similar to the mine in Butte, Montana. Interesting to look at on Google Earth too.
Max Keiser: Goldman Sax are Scum
This is just brilliant:
“They are literally stealing a hundred million dollars a day. Goldman Sachs is stealing every day on the floor of the exchange. They should be in the Hague, they should be taken on financial terrorism charges. They should all be thrown in jail”
– Max Keiser: “Goldman Sachs Are Scum” | zero hedge.
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America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.
Text of H.R.3200 as Introduced in House:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/text
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken pictures of the Apollo landing sites!
This should shut ‘em up.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html
Yeah, I know, NASA faked these too.
My dad, who worked on the Apollo program in 1969, would get a laugh out of this.
Medical Insurance for Prepared American Families
Some sound advice on medical insurance, July 2009:
http://www.survivalblog.com/2009/07/medical_insurance_for_prepared.html
From the post:
“…strategy is to ask for a discount in exchange for immediate payment by cash or by credit card. Providers want to collect payments and close out accounts as fast as possible so many will make a deal for quick payment. If you owe the hospital $7,000 [...]
SgtMarty wandering around Earth
Here’s a well written and photographed trip report of a solo KLR650 motorcycle trip from Colorado to Prudho Bay.
http://www.klr650.net/forums/showthread.php?t=45922
I could not stop reading this one. What a great adventure. The photos bring backs lots of memories. Perhaps it is time to get back to Alaska?
Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid
From Philip Greenspuns weblog. My own experience is much the same with Zope and Plone.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/05/18/ruby-on-rails-and-the-importance-of-being-stupid/