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How Is a Martian Rover Like a Bear?

How Is a Martian Rover Like a Bear? 08/10/2004 03:32 AM
With winter bearing down on the southern hemisphere of Mars, it's time for the two robotic rovers there to be going into a kind of hibernation.

Tumbleweed Rover for Marathon Martian
Journeys

Tumbleweed Rover for Marathon Martian
Journeys 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
Slashdot Mar 5 2004 9:05PM GMT

Voda, T-Mobile have a spring-clean

Voda, T-Mobile have a spring-clean 05/26/2004 07:25 AM
Buyouts in Japan and US

Moscow launches Soviet-style spring
clean (Reuters)

Moscow launches Soviet-style spring
clean (Reuters) 04/17/2004 08:44 AM
Reuters - Hundreds of thousands of Muscovites have turned out to scrub, paint or sweep the Russian capital in the annual "subbotnik" or spring clean.

Spring in Action: A Spring Jump Start.
Part 1

Spring in Action: A Spring Jump Start.
Part 1 03/14/2005 05:04 PM
This week, we look at an introduction to Spring. Based on a design principle called Inversion of Control, Spring reduces the complexity of using interfaces and speeds up your application development. You get the power of EJB and get to keep the simplicity of the non-enterprise JavaBean. By Manning Publications. 0307

Spring in Action: A Spring Jump Start.
Part 2

Spring in Action: A Spring Jump Start.
Part 2 03/19/2005 02:59 AM
This week, we look at understanding inversion of control. A sampling of the other topics we'll cover are injecting dependencies, IoC in action, decoupling with interfaces, IoC in enterprise applications and more. By Manning Publications. 0318

Spring in Action: A Spring Jump Start.
Part 3

Spring in Action: A Spring Jump Start.
Part 3 03/23/2005 07:31 AM
This week, we look at Spring Alternatives, including a comparison between Spring, EJB and other lightweight containers such as HiveMind and Avalon. Other topics include Web Frameworks, Persistence Frameworks and a summary. By Manning Publications. 0327

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if it
weren't for women, my thing would rust.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if it
weren't for women, my thing would rust. 08/17/2004 09:41 AM
How to tell someone that you like them.

Clean data, clean profit

Clean data, clean profit 09/24/2004 03:45 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 24 2004 7:19AM GMT

CleanTV - Not just clean, Utah Clean!

CleanTV - Not just clean, Utah Clean! 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
CleanTV (currently in the early stages of construction) is th is guy's new web site. It will log instances of "offensive" material shown on broadcast television, enable offended TV viewers to send email directly to local station owners and management, and/or send emails to the station's local and national advertisers. What happens to advertisers who ignore the email campaign and continue to sponsor shows that CleanTV deems offensive? - "If an advertiser continues to support offensive advertising, they will be targeted for local and national boycott. On the local level, newspapers are notified of the boycott and CleanTV volunteers will demonstrate at the advertiser's place of business until the advertiser decides to rescind their support of offensive programming."

This mosaic image taken by the
navigation camera on the Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit shows a
panoramic view of the rover on the
surface of Mars

This mosaic image taken by the
navigation camera on the Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit shows a
panoramic view of the rover on the
surface of Mars 01/05/2004 04:57 AM
Mars postcard pictures .. Press release images .. Look, mars

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New Blue Devils to get iPods

New Blue Devils to get iPods 07/19/2004 01:28 PM

This is too cool for words. Duke will be providing all incoming freshman with their very own iPod this coming semester.

The iPods will be preloaded with content related to Duke campus life, including freshman orientation information and the academic calendar. What's more, a special Duke Web site modeled on Apple's own iTunes site will offer course content for download, including language lessons, music, recorded lectures and audio books. Duke students will also be able to purchase music through the site.

Getting one won't be as easy as it sounds. Have you seen the admissions requirements for Duke? Tuition alone is $29,000. I suppose the least they could do is throw in a $300 iPod. When I entered college about 20 years ago they never would have given every student a Walkman. Just goes to show how our attitudes about content distribution are changing.

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No Sympathy For the Devils
(washingtonpost.com)

No Sympathy For the Devils
(washingtonpost.com) 03/29/2005 12:01 PM
washingtonpost.com - The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case today that will try to determine who the bad guys are in the Internet music showdown, but anyone hoping for a definitive answer from the justices should prepare for disappointment.

Devils Top Flyers 4-2 to Tighten Series
(AP)

Devils Top Flyers 4-2 to Tighten Series
(AP) 04/12/2004 09:57 PM
AP - The New Jersey Devils won't give up the Stanley Cup without a fight. After dropping the opening two games in Philadelphia, the Devils got back into their first-round series with the Flyers on Monday night. Patrik Elias scored twice and Scott Gomez had three assists in a 4-2 victory.

Flyers Knock Devils Out of Playoff Run
(AP)

Flyers Knock Devils Out of Playoff Run
(AP) 04/18/2004 05:42 AM
AP - The Philadelphia Flyers ended years of frustration against the New Jersey Devils, knocking the defending Stanley Cup champions out of the playoffs.

Those clever devils at Customized
Classics

Those clever devils at Customized
Classics 12/10/2003 04:20 PM

When I first saw Customized Classics a few weeks ago I felt like kicking myself. It's hard for most people to understand what "public domain" really means, and what value it can give us as a culture, and directly as capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Project Gutenberg has recently uploaded their 10,000th public domain book, and Brewster and the gang are working on the "million book project". To demonstrate the potential of the public domain, and show people what movies, music, and stories used to be like when there was an active public domain (that at one time was only 14 to 28 years old -- imagine making new movies and music from 60s stuff totally free of copyright), I've been kicking around ideas of how to exploit these free works (again, for demonstration purposes more than anything else).

One idea I called "judge a book by its cover." Take these public domain classics, create exciting, artistic cover designs (perhaps by famous designers), and sell them via the new crop of print-on-demand services. A few months ago there was news of Oprah's book club coming back to life and only selecting classics from the public domain, and how publishers would have to rush to meet the demands, but how anyone could print them up.

I've been coming up with other ideas but nothing is as good as customized classics. They just do a search-and-replace on names of your choosing, and spit out a custom book to you for 25 bucks or so. Brilliant and simple.

Flyers Oust Defending Cup Champion
Devils

Flyers Oust Defending Cup Champion
Devils 04/17/2004 07:22 PM
Danny Markov scored on a long shot with 5:23 left, and the Flyers closed out their first-round series against the Devils with a 3-1 victory.

Devils Coach Pat Burns Has Colon Cancer
(AP)

Devils Coach Pat Burns Has Colon Cancer
(AP) 04/18/2004 12:19 PM
AP - New Jersey Devils coach Pat Burns has colon cancer and will immediately begin treatment, he said Sunday, a day after the defending Stanley Cup champions were knocked out of the playoffs. Burns, 52, said his status with the team will be determined in five weeks, the earliest the treatment could end.

Niittymaki Shines As Flyers Flog Devils
(AP)

Niittymaki Shines As Flyers Flog Devils
(AP) 02/10/2004 09:30 PM
AP - Rookie Antero Niittymaki stopped 35 shots for his third win in as many starts, leading the Philadelphia Flyers over the New Jersey Devils 4-1 on Tuesday night.

Flyers Edge Devils 3-2, Lead Series 2-0
(AP)

Flyers Edge Devils 3-2, Lead Series 2-0
(AP) 04/11/2004 02:49 AM
AP - Forget a repeat. The New Jersey Devils might not get past the first round. Alexei Zhamnov scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the defending Stanley Cup champions 3-2 Saturday night to take a 2-0 series lead.

Virtual Devils Curse Internet Church
(Reuters)

Virtual Devils Curse Internet Church
(Reuters) 05/19/2004 10:40 AM
Reuters - The world's first Internet church has fallen victim to a plague of virtual demons, some of whom have been logging on as Satan and unleashing strings of expletives during sermons.

Devils Advocate: Google an electronic
freedom argument

Devils Advocate: Google an electronic
freedom argument 11/03/2003 05:29 AM
Silicon.com Nov 3 2003 5:21AM ET

Devils Rays Snap Orioles' Winning Streak
(AP)

Devils Rays Snap Orioles' Winning Streak
(AP) 04/21/2004 09:03 PM
AP - Tino Martinez and Rocco Baldelli homered to lead a rare Tampa Bay power surge, and the Devil Rays ended the Baltimore Orioles' five-game winning streak with a 7-3 victory Wednesday night.

Devils Coach Burns Fighting Colon Cancer

Devils Coach Burns Fighting Colon Cancer 04/18/2004 04:29 PM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 18 2004 7:56PM GMT

Martian

Martian 01/16/2004 11:01 AM

World's first Internet church falls
victim to virtual devils

World's first Internet church falls
victim to virtual devils 05/19/2004 07:18 AM
Hindustan Times May 19 2004 11:58AM GMT

Martian Watches

Martian Watches 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
24:39 NASA is running their Spirit Martian explorer program on Martian solar time. With the project day running 39 minutes longer than a real day, engineers found they faced difficulties adjusting to this virtual timezone. Their solution was nearly as old as timekeeping itself.

Sailing the Martian Sea

Sailing the Martian Sea 03/22/2005 03:36 PM

The Mars Rovers have exceeded all expectations during their time exploring the surface of the red planet. However, there is other Martian exploration and research going on. The European Space Agency probe Mars Express has sent back new data which indicates that there may be a frozen sea under the surface of Mars.

Images taken of the Elysium region near the equator show a region that some believe is a large frozen sea, just below the surface of the planet. The team at the ESA believe that the area, around the size of the UK’s North Sea, contains water that is covered in a layer of volcanic ash that prevents the frozen ice form sublimating in the thin Martian atmosphere.

After reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series, which covered a the colonization and terraforming of the red planet, I find the news that there large amounts of ice on Mars to be fascinating. Maybe some day we'll get there.

AI to help Martian exploration

AI to help Martian exploration 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
Scientists are developing a wearable computer running 'intelligent' software to help humans explore Mars.

New Martian Meteorite Recovered

New Martian Meteorite Recovered 07/23/2004 02:49 AM

Missing Martian Water

Missing Martian Water 06/14/2004 09:32 PM
Where might the water they are seeking on Mars have gone?

Bespoke martian watches keep 24h, 39m
day

Bespoke martian watches keep 24h, 39m
day 01/09/2004 09:56 PM
Researchers working on the Mars lander are rising and sleeping on Martian Standard Time, the daylight hours on the lander's plot of Mars. The martian day is 24h, 39m long -- which means that the rover crew had to get custom-made timepieces (for "had to," here, read, "thought it would be really cool to") manufactured for them by a master watchmaker.

My next novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, (due out in just a few weeks!) revolves around the way that your sleep schedule determines a lot about your social circle and hence your beliefs, alliegances, and so forth. A friend of mine in DC who used to work for the CIA just read the book and wrote to point out that the military has been running timezone-tribes for years, so that all the people commanding and supporting some distant operational unit are rising and sleeping on a schedule synched with daylight hours in some far corner.

But I bet they don't get cool watches like this one -- someone should manufacture and sell 'em. My sleep-schedule is so scr0d that I would happily wear this thing and abide by what it told me about my circadian. Link (via MeFi)

Martian Aurora Is One of a Kind

Martian Aurora Is One of a Kind 06/17/2005 03:48 PM

The Martian meteorite re-examined

The Martian meteorite re-examined 02/10/2004 02:57 AM
Two Australian scientists have developed a new process for examining the controversial Martian meteorite, a stone retrieved from Antarctic ice samples several years ago. This stone shows signs of having been formed on the fourth planet from the sun, and kicked free of Mars' gravity by a tremendous surface impact, causing it to drift through space and eventually fall to Earth. It is believed by some to contain fossilised traces of simple single-celled organisms. These scientists claim their process proves beyond any doubt that those traces are genuine: the meteorite contains evidence of primitive life on Mars many millions of years ago.

Martian Watches | Metafilter

Martian Watches | Metafilter 01/11/2004 03:51 AM
Martian Watches .. Metafilter

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Hunter’s Martian Eyes

Hunter’s Martian Eyes 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
In Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams (a beautiful and wise book) he laments the passage of the special relationship between the hunter and the landscape; A hunter—a real hunts-to-live hunter, not a plaid-clad suburbanite gun nut—has to as a matter of life or death study his surroundings with great care. I quote: “But the meticulous inspection of the land that is the mark of a good hunter becomes most evident when he uses a pair of good field glasses. Long after the most inquiring nonnative has has grown weary of glassing the land for some clue to the movement of animals, a hunter is still scouring its edges and interstices. He may take an hour to glass 360° of the apparently silent tundra, one section at a time.” In that spirit, go visit the very good Quicktime VR panorama of the Martian Surface, set the scene into a slow, slow drift (it’s easy with a trackpad), cultivate that hunter’s eye, and spend a half-hour looking at the horizon, and the sand, and the stones.

The Martian NetDrive Wireless

The Martian NetDrive Wireless 03/13/2003 10:15 AM

The Martian NetDrive Wireless: 40 gigabytes of small, silent, 802.11b filesharing

Martian explorer marks first year

Martian explorer marks first year 01/04/2005 04:56 AM
US space agency Nasa celebrates the first year on Mars of its Spirit robot rover vehicle.

NASA's Martian Standard Tribe

NASA's Martian Standard Tribe 01/05/2004 01:36 PM
NASA scientists working on the Mars rover have adopted a Martian sleep-schedule so that they can be awake and working during Mars daylight. Not exactly Eastern Standard Tribe, but not far off, either. Link (Thanks, Paul)
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