Well, this just has to be the coolest picture. This picture was taken by the Japanese satellite Kaguya(Selene) and is the first HDTV hi definition images of the moon. higher quality image here. Images like this make me sad.
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The crew of the Enola Gay Paul Tibbets After His Historic FlightPilot of the Enola Gay, Paul Tibbets died yesterday at the age of 92. What this man did was courageous and needed in a time of World War. There
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Here's the facts folks. The debate on global warming is not over. While it can be shown that there have been slight temperature rises, there have been temperature fluctuations throughout Earth's history. From the extreme cold to the extreme hot...
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Jeff Quinton of Inside Charm City brings us tons of images from the 2007 Joint Service Open House Air Show at Andrews Air Force Base. Take a break and go check it out.
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I've added some silly components to the website. For the comments area. I added Gravatar last week. Gravatars are little avatars that appear next to your comments. The thing is that each user has to sign up with Gravatar and
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Yes, that's with a B. Spammer James McCalla has been fined $11.2 billion dollars. A Clinton, Iowa based ISP, CIS Internet Services, was awarded the judgement for 280 million spam email's that were sent out by James McCalla with their
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Players who act up in the online game Second Life are banished to a place called The Cornfield. There is nothing in The Cornfield except for a tractor and a TV. I have no idea how long they are
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Oh how I loathe JAVA. I could go on and on about my loathing of JAVA. I could go on and on even more about my loathing of .NET. I am such a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PERL - Not
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The Predator B, unmanned drone, has been deployed along the Arizona/Mexico border to help in the fight against illegal immigration. While I see this as great for an experiment, I think at $14 million a pop there are better solutions
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NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said on Tuesday that he believes the whole shuttle and space station projects have been a mistake. He said that since the 70's and the retirement of the Apollo missions that NASA has not chosen the
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Starter Edition, Home Basic Edition, Home Premium Edition, Professional Edition, Small Business Edition, Enterprise Edition and Ultimate Edition. Which edition or version of Windows will be right for you? Who the hell knows. In a greedy slap to the majority
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Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security secretary, said Thursday that he sees biometrics as the way of the future for identification when traveling. The current method is too flawed relying on simple names which are subject to misspellings, misidentification and fraud. The
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Japan has released an ambitious 20 year plan for its space program. It includes robotic and nanotech visits to the moon culminating in a moon landing by 2025. MSNBC Japan's space agency mapped out a new, ambitious plan for
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TiVo has been struggling and many people have forecast it's demise with the cable companies releasing their own DVR services and equipment. It now seems TiVo may survive as a software only company for enhanced DVR services. Forbes TiVo Inc.,
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For those of you who don't see the history in this completion of a flight around the world without refueling let me put some things into perspective. Think back to the Egyptians in some small rags as they dragged a
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While it's exciting to see China going into space I still have reservations about them. They seem to have moved more towards capitalism, but there's still the issue of Taiwan and China saying they will crush them recently that gives
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Eighteen Talon robots (see description at The Foster-Miller Company) are being deployed to Iraq. These robots have been used previously in Bosnia and Afghanistan as well as for recovery missions at the World Trade Center after 9/11. Australian Broadcast
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This is just totally cool and it is a great idea. Edutainment has been around for awhile, but The Sims and it's following of players just seems like a perfect match for learning a new language. They speak gibberish on
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20 Year Archive on Google Groups has 20 years of usenet postings. It is a quite impressive timeline of history including the first mention of AIDS, the fall of the Berlin wall, first mention of Britney Spears (in 1993!) and
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Anti-Americanism or financial hardship? You make the call. BBC Agency head Anatoly Perminov said US astronauts would be ferried to the ISS "on a commercial basis" from 2006. ... Roskosmos has single-handedly serviced the International Space Station since the suspension
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Wow! This is a really cool tool that could change the world. Imagine being able to find a digital video clip you need instantly. Google already has normal search, image search and even a search for shopping called froogle. Now
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There's an interesting discussion over at Slashdot about Project Gutenberg being served threatened with a lawsuit over Gone With The Wind. If you haven't been to Project Gutenberg, it's really awesome. You can download lots of books that have expired
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In an unprecedented move the crack troops at Google infiltrated a group of terrorists in Iraq and set free Australian Hostage John Martinkus. Martinkus, a journalist, was accused by the hostage takers of being a CIA agent. After watching the
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With all the hoopla over stem cell laws, a lot of people are forgetting their usefulness. Wired has an article that could change everything for those with macular degeneration, seniors and totally blind people. Scientists have derived retinal cells from
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There.com was "an online getaway where you can hang out with your friends and meet new ones--all in a lush 3D environment that's yours to explore!" The real nature of There was to charge people real money to go online
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