I don’t know about the speed, but it’s interesting because he’s only the second person in documented history to be hit by a meteor.
Archive of entries posted on June 2009
Happy Anniversary!
GoddessJ and I have been married for ten years today. Here is an open letter from me to her: GoddessJ, the last ten years have been amazing. You’ve taught me a lot, and I’ve grown to be a much better person for it. I’ve always admired your openness, your enjoyment of life, your sense of [...]
“Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04″
If they can do it, it’ll be very significant — for one thing, there’s little need to hibernate or suspend a system that boots up essentially instantly.
“Apollo 11 – The Owners’ Workshop Manual”
Got a broken-down Apollo command module sitting in the back yard? Now you can get it running again.
“Wirelessly-powered phones on sale within four years, says Nokia”
An interesting solution to the mobile device power problem.
Gas Prices
When I was a teenager, I played a paper-and-pencil game called Car Wars with a group of similarly geeky friends. In this game you designed armed and armored vehicles and played them against one another or in missions. The game was set in the far future (2040s, maybe?), and one of the things that constantly [...]
“Fear of Aerial Images”
More uncommon-sense from security expert Bruce Schneier.
Spammity spam, spammity spam…
SpamBayes marked this one “unsure” (only 87% probability of being spam) so I looked at it to make certain. Then I decided to give my tongue-in-cheek “answer” to it here: To: (someone else’s e-mail address at my ISP) From: jeanette (random nonsense e-mail address) Subject: hi from jeanette I would never have guessed. Hi It`s [...]
“US issues revised e-voting standards”
Better late than never, I guess.
“Bull*** about newspapers’ future, dissected”
An interesting take on a subject I’ve mentioned here before. (Warning: mildly NSFW for language.)