The Dawn spacecraft is currently sitting on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, where it will wait until September 26th for launch. NASA always chooses these vague, optimistic names for spacecraft. The Mars rovers have names like Spirit and Opportunity or old probes with names like Voyager and Pioneer. Of course there are the dreadfully functional [...]
Archive for 12 September 2007
Dawn
Posted: 12 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: asteroids, dawn, mars, mining, nasa, space, spacecraft, spaceflight
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Google me
Posted: 12 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, friends, google, googlewhacks, math competitions, search
There are a disturbing number of Jason Michael Adamses in the world. Two years ago, I tried googling myself and gave up after 20 pages. Using searches that included schools I went to yielded two math competitions from high school in 1992 and 1994 where I ranked in one and my team ranked in the [...]
Wonkosphere in the Blagoblag
Posted: 12 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, blogs, buzz, election, kucinich, politics, presidential election, wonkosphere
I happened on a political tracking website today that rocks. Wonkosphere scans the political blagoblag for buzz about presidential candidates. Blogs are classified as conservative (if they support a conservative candidate), liberal (if they support a liberal) or independent (if they don’t indicate support of anyone and choose to be considered as such). Scanning these [...]
