NASA to Put 'Aura' Around Earth

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Eager NASA Is Bringing Mars Down to
Earth

Eager NASA Is Bringing Mars Down to
Earth 01/27/2004 12:09 AM
Since the rover Spirit landed on Mars three weeks ago, 32 million people have visited NASA's Web site, dwarfing the numbers of any other space event.

NASA probe Genesis hits earth at 190 mph

NASA probe Genesis hits earth at 190 mph 09/09/2004 05:34 AM

NASA's Genesis probe that re-entered the atmosphere today had a major malfunction when the parachute did not deploy. The probe hit the ground at 190 Mph and scientist fear the entire experiment may have been lost. [ZDNet]

NASA Mars rover touches down on planet,
signals Earth

NASA Mars rover touches down on planet,
signals Earth 01/04/2004 03:54 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 4 2004 2:15AM ET

Satellite to study Earth's 'Aura'

Satellite to study Earth's 'Aura' 07/09/2004 11:29 PM
The US space agency is set to launch Aura - a satellite designed to check the health of the Earth's atmosphere - on Sunday.

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 AM
International Earth Day Official Site .. HAPPY EARTH DAY Y'ALL! .. more... earthDay .. Earth

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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, 1970
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1140
2) Wisconsin Historical Society: Turning Points-An Environmental Agenda for the 70's
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1139
3) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Earth Day '70
http://www.ep a.gov/history/topics/earthday/02.htm
4) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Earth Day Recollections
http://www.ep a.gov/history/topics/earthday/10.htm
5) Earth Day Network
http://www.earthday.net/
6) EarthDay.gov: Take Action In Your Classroom
http://www.earthday.gov/c lassroom.htm
7) Army Earth Day
http:// aec.army.mil/usaec/publicaffairs/earthday00.html
8) The Wilderness Society: Earth Day
http://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

Earth 11/19/2003 02:12 PM
Who Man?

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.

Web Earth Gate

Web Earth Gate 01/10/2004 04:57 AM
some progress

Back here on Earth

Back here on Earth 05/31/2004 03:25 PM
Usatoday.com - Fri May 28, 08:38 pm GMT

More And More Deserts On Earth

More And More Deserts On Earth 06/16/2004 05:13 AM
CBS 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?

SCOrched Earth

SCOrched Earth 12/05/2003 12:32 PM

OK, Who's Overclocking The Earth?

OK, Who's Overclocking The Earth? 12/31/2003 01:14 PM
Remember 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.

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. :)

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.

Where on Earth is your Website?

Where on Earth is your Website? 05/24/2004 01:30 AM
WebDevInfo May 24 2004 5:50AM GMT

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."

Colonizing Down Under (the Earth)

Colonizing Down Under (the Earth) 03/14/2003 01:03 PM
There 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.

Endangered Earth

Endangered Earth 04/21/2004 10:21 PM

RIP, Whole Earth Review

RIP, Whole Earth Review 01/24/2004 03:36 AM
Whole 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!)

Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day! 04/22/2004 05:32 PM

Earth Day Network

Earth Day Network 04/23/2004 06:40 AM
EarthDay 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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"Happy Earth Day"

"Happy Earth Day" 04/23/2004 10:59 AM

Leaving the Earth

Leaving the Earth 03/06/2004 02:03 AM
Rannva 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...

The Semantic Earth

The Semantic Earth 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
I 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,...

Scorched Earth Online War

Scorched Earth Online War 08/05/2004 09:33 PM
New Developer RAF74_Wall-dog

Programs Try Down-to-Earth Aid for
Marriages

Programs Try Down-to-Earth Aid for
Marriages 01/24/2004 09:29 PM
States have experimented for years with ways to bring down the divorce rate, much as President Bush proposes to do nationwide.

Composite Of Earth At Night

Composite Of Earth At Night 08/23/2004 08:30 AM

Mars Critics Say, Look to Earth

Mars Critics Say, Look to Earth 03/08/2004 11:27 PM
Prominent scientists outside NASA are beginning to ask whether Mars represents what is out of whack in American science and exploration. They suggest we focus on pressing scientific issues that would improve life on Earth.

Earth Mapping Dataproject

Earth Mapping Dataproject 05/21/2004 02:18 AM
Getting the Data

The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth

The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth 04/13/2004 08:49 AM

The most ancient militants on earth

The most ancient militants on earth 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
The inimitable fiction writer and satirist George Saunders typically runs his political convictions through his work as undercurrent, the subsurface but unmistakable charge of his dark and poignant hilarity. But lately, life in the time of al-Qaida and George W. Bush seems to be drawing Saunders' voltage right up to the surface. His latest offering is this "press release" -- a manifesto of sorts from a group known as PRKA.

Moon rocks on Earth

Moon rocks on Earth 07/29/2004 08:41 PM

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MSNBC reports that a rock from the moon dating back some 340,000 years ago was found right here on our very own little chunk of real estate called Earth. A rare find to be sure, this is still not the first time a moon rock has been found on our own planet. Roughly 30 moon rocks have been found on Earth since 1979, with about 20 lunar impacts causing them to head our way in…

The Greatest Show On Earth

The Greatest Show On Earth 07/27/2004 09:25 PM
Just posted our complete San Diego Comic-Con 2004 full report - head on over to the feature page and take a look!

Every creature on earth dies alone

Every creature on earth dies alone 05/25/2004 07:13 PM
Baaaaah hump. My CD-RW/DVD-R drive is being a totally fucking asshole. As I want to go on the treadmill to...

My President and Mother Earth

My President and Mother Earth 05/29/2004 05:13 AM

Do you want to feel bad this Friday?  Read this.

There was an incident with one of the cars. We shot an individual with his hands up. He got out of the car. He was badly shot. We lit him up. I don't know who started shooting first. One of the Marines came running over to where we were and said: "You all just shot a guy with his hands up." Man, I forgot about this.

To top it off, read this report about the health of Mother Earth.

" flew to 40 miles above the earth"

" flew to 40 miles above the earth" 05/15/2004 08:41 AM

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb 1.0

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb 1.0 06/01/2004 11:14 PM
Your goal is to guide Rif on his adventure, find clues to locate a thief, and solve challenges along the way.
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