Back here on Earth
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Hey, Profs, Come Back to Earth
(washingtonpost.com)
Hey, Profs, Come Back to Earth
(washingtonpost.com)
04/11/2005 03:49 AMHey, Profs, Come Back to Earth (washingtonpost.com) .. how politicized
colleges have become .. LIKE THE AUTO INDUSTRY .. alienating
students
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Space Capsule Heading Back to Earth (AP)
Space Capsule Heading Back to Earth (AP)
09/08/2004 03:45 AMAP - A space capsule holding atoms collected from solar wind was en
route to a tricky rendezvous with Earth, offering scientists the first
material NASA has brought back from space in nearly three decades.
Bringing Them Back, Healthy, From the
Ends of the Earth
Bringing Them Back, Healthy, From the
Ends of the Earth
06/21/2004 08:23 PMKenneth Kamler is a man with a double life. For much of the year, he
is a microsurgeon; but in his other guise, he is an eminent adventure
physician.
Beckham's Ball Heads Back Down to Earth
(Reuters)
Beckham's Ball Heads Back Down to Earth
(Reuters)
07/15/2004 12:05 PMReuters - A $12.3 million bid for the ball that
David Beckham blasted into the stands during England's Euro
2004 shootout defeat against Portugal has been ruled a fake.
Space Station Trio Head Back to Earth
(Reuters)
Space Station Trio Head Back to Earth
(Reuters)
04/29/2004 05:49 PMReuters - A Soyuz space capsule set
off on schedule from the International Space Station to bring a
Russian, a U.S. astronaut and a Dutchman back to Earth in the
steppes of Kazakhstan.
Mars Rover Stops Sending Intelligible
Data Back to Earth
Mars Rover Stops Sending Intelligible
Data Back to Earth
01/22/2004 04:36 PMThe Mars Spirit rover has stopped sending intelligible data in the
last 24 hours due to "a very serious anomaly."
US mission lands safely on Mars, beams
images back to Earth
US mission lands safely on Mars, beams
images back to Earth
01/04/2004 09:33 PMStraits Times Jan 4 2004 7:13PM ET
Second Mars rover lands successfully,
begins sending back pictures to Earth
Second Mars rover lands successfully,
begins sending back pictures to Earth
01/25/2004 04:15 PMCanadian Press via Canada.com Jan 25 2004 7:05PM GMT
Steven Roy Goodman: Hey, Profs, Come
Back to Earth (Free WAPO Registration
Required)
Steven Roy Goodman: Hey, Profs, Come
Back to Earth (Free WAPO Registration
Required)
04/11/2005 05:58 AMAn education
consultant
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International Earth Day- The Official
Site (www.earthsite.org) Spring/Vernal
Equinox - The Great Day of Earth
International Earth Day- The Official
Site (www.earthsite.org) Spring/Vernal
Equinox - The Great Day of Earth
04/23/2004 09:32 AMInternational Earth Day Official Site .. HAPPY EARTH DAY Y'ALL! ..
more... earthDay .. Earth
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Floridians Bracing for the Arrival of
Back-to-Back Tropical Storms (Los
Angeles Times)
Floridians Bracing for the Arrival of
Back-to-Back Tropical Storms (Los
Angeles Times)
08/12/2004 06:07 AMLos Angeles Times - FORT MYERS, Fla. — As rare back-to-back
tropical storms — one a hurricane, the other likely to become
one — churned Wednesday toward Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush declared a
statewide emergency and mobilized the National Guard. Tourists were
told to evacuate the low-lying Florida Keys.
Livewire: Back to School Means Back to
Advergames (Reuters)
Livewire: Back to School Means Back to
Advergames (Reuters)
09/15/2004 03:18 PMReuters - Back to school for many kids means
"back to Internet access" in classes where the best of
filtering software is not foolproof, particularly against
seemingly harmless Web sites used for invasive marketing.
POS! Microphone doesnt work. Took back
and got money back
POS! Microphone doesnt work. Took back
and got money back
09/11/2004 10:09 PMTechTree Sep 12 2004 2:43AM GMT
To Florida WebmasterWorld Members - Back
Ups Back Ups
To Florida WebmasterWorld Members - Back
Ups Back Ups
09/02/2004 05:26 PMIn the face of a hurrican, do you have a diaster recovery plan?
Earth
Earth
11/19/2003 02:12 PMWho Man?
Earth Day
Earth Day
04/17/2005 10:52 AM
Earth Day - April 22, 2005
1)
Wisconsin Historical Society: Turning Points--An Overview of Earth
Day, 1970http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1140
2) Wisconsin Historical Society: Turning Points-An
Environmental Agenda for the 70'shttp://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1139
3) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Earth Day
'70http://www.ep
a.gov/history/topics/earthday/02.htm4) U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency: Earth Day Recollectionshttp://www.ep
a.gov/history/topics/earthday/10.htm5) Earth Day
Networkhttp://www.earthday.net/6) EarthDay.gov: Take Action In Your Classroomhttp://www.earthday.gov/c
lassroom.htm7) Army Earth Dayhttp://
aec.army.mil/usaec/publicaffairs/earthday00.html8)
The Wilderness Society: Earth Dayhttp://earthday.wilderness.org/
On April 22, 2005, people around the world will
celebrate the 35th anniversary of Earth Day. This Topic in Depth
focuses on the past and present of this significant day. From the
Wisconsin Historical Society, the first two sites contain historical
documents pertaining to Earth Day. The first (1) document features a
May 1970 issue of The Gaylord Nelson Newsletter reporting on the first
Earth Day. The second (2) document is a speech by Nelson entitled "An
Environmental Agenda for the 70's." Housed in the archives of the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website, the next two sites also
contain historical documents. The first (3) site contains an article
written by Nelson for the EPA Journal in April of 1980, entitled
"Earth Day '70: What It Meant." The second (4) site contains an
article written by John C. Whitaker (former Interior undersecretary in
the Nixon administration) for the EPA Journal in the summer of 1998.
The article is entitled "Earth Day Recollections: What It Was Like
When the Movement Took Off." The (5) Earth Day Network (first
mentioned in the April 4, 2003, Scout Report for Life Sciences) works
"to broaden the environmental movement worldwide and to educate and
mobilize people, governments, and corporations to take responsibility
for a clean and healthy environment." In addition to information
sections about Ongoing Programs, Current Campaigns, and News, the
Earth Day Network website contains Earth Day 2005 Materials for
organizers. From EarthDay.gov, Take Action In Your Classroom (6)
offers links to a variety of environmental education resources. The
next website, from the U.S. Army Environmental Center, presents (7)
Army Earth Day; and links to information about the Army's
environmental activities. The final (8) site is an Earth Day-inspired
educational website (first reported on in the April 14, 1999 Scout
Report for Science & Engineering) from the Wilderness Society. The
site offers a collection of environmental education resources for
teachers and students. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life
Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005.
http://scout.wisc.edu/]
Earth Day Network
Earth Day Network
04/23/2004 06:40 AMEarthDay Network has lots of suggestions .. And more, of what is most
important .. Earth Day Network Website .. Dia do Planeta Terra .. ‡ˆ§Š
§ƒ .. Happy .. Earth
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The Semantic Earth
The Semantic Earth
02/10/2004 02:51 AMI spent all of December and half of January working on an article for
Esther Dyson's Release 1.0. Man, did I learn a lot, including that
Esther and Christina Koukkos are uniquely demanding yet patient
editors. The article's just come out. Here's the abstract: The
Semantic Earth Every business in the world is headquartered on earth.
Every employee works somewhere. Every customer is at some location at
every moment. Every product is delivered to some spot and every
service is performed at some coordinates. Every transaction involves
at least one place and usually more than one. And yet, until
recently,...
Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day!
04/22/2004 05:32 PMWhere on Earth is your Website?
Where on Earth is your Website?
05/24/2004 01:30 AMWebDevInfo May 24 2004 5:50AM GMT
"Happy Earth Day"
"Happy Earth Day"
04/23/2004 10:59 AMRIP, Whole Earth Review
RIP, Whole Earth Review
01/24/2004 03:36 AMWhole Earth magazine has gone bust (they owe me money!) (and they
changed my life!) (and their editorial board insisted on utterly
stupid edits to the story they owe me money for!) (and they really did
change my life!) (boy, those were stupid edits!). This is bad news.
Whole Earth magazine -- spawn of the amazing Whole Earth Catalogs,
source of the WELL, first to mention in print the Gaia Hypothesis, the
Internet, Virtual Reality, the Singularity and Burning Man (or at
least so the legend goes), the place where folks like Stewart Brand,
Kevin Kelly and Howard Rheingold found their voices, and where a whole
generation of young commune-kid geeks like myself learned to dream
weird -- is no more.
Link
(
Thanks, Alex!)
Colonizing Down Under (the Earth)
Colonizing Down Under (the Earth)
03/14/2003 01:03 PMThere will never be more land. But there's plenty of undeveloped space
underground. Tunneling technologies used in transportation projects
like Boston's Big Dig will -- literally -- pave the way. By Fred
Hapgood from Wired magazine.
The Day The Earth Froze
The Day The Earth Froze
09/12/2004 05:51 PM
I've been watching the 1980s TV serial adaptation of the Kalevala,
Rauta-aika [Iron Age], being shown in 4 parts on Tuesdays on YLE2.
I've never really liked adaptations which may be due to having been
forced to sit through a torturous production of Shakespeare's Much
Ado About Nothing that was set on a tennis court and featured
something I could only describe as valley girls with big hair and
bubble gum. The actors were lucky we didn't start throwing things and
booing. Rauta-aika isn't all that bad even though the actors speak
prose and some of the costumes are pretty over the top. A few days ago
I mentioned the show to Chip Salzenberg, the human movie quote
database, who immediately asked, "The Day the Earth Froze?" No, the
Kalevala, not some bad sci-fi flick. As it happens, Chip and Jeff Goff
are MST3K devotees who provided me with the MST3K episode featuring
the absurdly bad The
Day the Earth Froze which, in spite of the misleading title,
is a 1959 movie of the Kalevala.
The movie was titled Sampo everywhere else but the US without
explanation as to who thought the B-movie sci-fi title would be a
brilliant replacement. The US version is also about 30 minutes shorter
although, judging by what wasn't cut, it likely was an act of mercy.
The Ministry of Culture in the then USSR apparently funded and
commissioned this entertainment bomb for some deeply mysterious
reason. The US version changes many the Russian and Finnish names to
sound, presumably, less like commies and the opening credits manage to
misspell Lönnrot's name. The MST3K guys often mock the Swedish in the
episode but I think the Finns wouldn't bother to correct them and let
the Swedes take all the credit for this total suckfest. The English
dubbing over the original Russian is spectacularly bad, too, as I
guess no one bothered to ask how the Finnish words and names were
pronounced and, after a while, I think they just started making shit
up. One of the more hilarious moments of heckling is when Crow makes
fun of the actress who plays Louhi by saying, "Marty Feldman in a role
that won't surprise you!" :)
It was good for a laugh but it was like watching a Paris Hilton
version of Walden Pond set in a luxury tourist resort where you
begin to wonder if you haven't slipped into a parallel and alternate
reality. It's a pity that no one has actually done a full movie
production of the Kalevala or a film of the people who kept the
stories alive before they were finally collected by Lönnrot and
written down. I think even a low-budget "Blair Witch" style Kalevala
movie would suck less than this movie does. I have a new appreciation
for Rauta-aika now. :)
OK, Who's Overclocking The Earth?
OK, Who's Overclocking The Earth?
12/31/2003 01:14 PMRemember back in 1999 when people started talking about "internet
time", which was this crazy notion that, thanks to the internet, the
usual course of business went much much much faster? Well, it sounds
like the Earth tried to get in on some of that, as it's now been
revealed that since 1999,
our home planet has been making it's annual trek
around the sun one second faster than it was for quite some time.
Between 1972 and 1999, we had to add a special "leap second" each
year, since the Earth was slowing down, and losing a step. However,
since 1999, for reasons no one is quite sure, the Earth appears to
have caught a second wind and is speeding up a bit.
Leaving the Earth
Leaving the Earth
03/06/2004 02:03 AMRannva dropped this URL on an older blog entry, so I figured I should
pop it up to a larger readership, since it's just too cool:
Orion's
Arm Worldbuilding Group.
A huge collection of Creative Commons -licensed
alternative world history (and future) that should make the soul of
every hardcore sci-fi fan tickle. I only took a quick glance through
it, but already I started getting ideas...
I think this is another good example on how uncoordinated efforts of
dedicated amateurs can produce things that rival commercial
alternatives. I don't think it replaces them, though, but it
can be a good choice among many. The Internet has really allowed a
whole new kind of collaboration efforts to take place, things that
were rather difficult to do before. Essentially the Internet is now
doing the job of the scientific journals, and it is not surprising
that many of the academic papers are being published on the Internet
first these days...
ET phone earth?
ET phone earth?
09/02/2004 10:01 AM
Between Pisces and Aries,
a
strange signal from space. Communication from an extraterrestrial
civilization?
Probably
not, and an article in Nature suggests it would
make
more sense to use FedEx.
Web Earth Gate
Web Earth Gate
01/10/2004 04:57 AMsome progress
New From Entertainment Earth
New From Entertainment Earth
10/29/2003 03:48 PM
Entertainment Earth writes: "Just a reminder that we are taking
pre-orders for all of the new Ultra action figures."
SCOrched Earth
SCOrched Earth
12/05/2003 12:32 PMMore And More Deserts On Earth
More And More Deserts On Earth
06/16/2004 05:13 AMCBS News Jun 16 2004 9:25AM GMT
Rip, Mix, and Burn anything on earth
Rip, Mix, and Burn anything on earth
07/16/2004 11:57 PM
Today while I was at a web conference, a speaker used an incredible
MIT Media Lab project as a demo during a talk. Check out the
I/O brush project. The project appears to be a camera that can
take a photo still or video of anything you point it at, then the
captured images can be "painted" on a virtual canvas. It's essentially
one giant derivative work creator.
Watch this Real Video demo of the I/O Brush in action
After you see it, you can see how incredible this technology is. I
can't imagine when something like this would be a cheap, easily
available tool, but I can imagine that parts of the technology may
eventually show up in something. It takes the concept of rip, mix, and
burn to whole new levels, creating new art works from anything else
(including copyrighted art, text, and trademarked logos) and I wonder
what the legal landscape will be like when this technology is readily
available. Can you imagine the scorn this product will get from
publishing companies, movie studios, and the like?
The Most Powerful Man On Earth...
The Most Powerful Man On Earth...
01/01/2005 10:52 AM... is of course Steve Jobs. Well, at least in the Mac industry. Find
out who are the second to twenty-fifth most powerful people in the
Mac industry.
Endangered Earth
Endangered Earth
04/21/2004 10:21 PMJeremy Will Inherit the Earth
Jeremy Will Inherit the Earth
03/13/2003 10:22 AMAccording to
Jeremy Rogers
(no relation), on May 15, 2003, the arrival of Planet X between the
Earth and Sun will stop the Earth's rotation and cause the North and
South poles to shift. "You might want to consider wearing a hard hat
during this period," he advises. (03-08)
Solar Storm to hit Earth about NOW!
Solar Storm to hit Earth about NOW!
10/29/2003 11:21 AMWhile I was on an airplane and out of contact with the world for about
10 hours yesterday the sun...
Earth Travel On Time, Again
Earth Travel On Time, Again
12/30/2003 07:43 PMburgburgburg writes "The NY Times has an interesting article about a
rather puzzling phenomena: for the fifth year in a row, the Earth's
travel through space ...
Every creature on earth dies alone
Every creature on earth dies alone
05/25/2004 07:13 PMBaaaaah hump. My CD-RW/DVD-R drive is being a totally fucking asshole.
As I want to go on the treadmill to...
" flew to 40 miles above the earth"
" flew to 40 miles above the earth"
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