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Sunday, April 09, 2006
Friday, April 07, 2006
Total eclipse as seen by astronauts on the ISS
From NASA's Earth Sciences and Image Analysis site, this photo was taken by the Expedition 12 crew aboard the International Space Station.
The International Space Station (ISS) was in position to view the umbral (ground) shadow cast by the Moon as it moved between the Sun and the Earth during the solar eclipse on March 29, 2006. This astronaut image captures the umbral shadow across southern Turkey, northern Cyprus, and the Mediterranean Sea. People living in these regions observed a total solar eclipse, in which the Moon completely covers the Sun’s disk. The astronaut photograph was taken at approximately 2:00 p.m. local time. The terminator of the eclipse—the line between the light and dark parts of the Sun’s disk— is visible as it passes across central Turkey. This total solar eclipse is the fourth to have occurred since 1999. The portion of the ISS visible at image top is the Space Station Remote Manipulator System.
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Installing Ubuntu and Transitioning from Windows to Ubuntu
These two articles are geared towards people who would like to jump on the Linux boat, but aren't sure where to start, or what exactly Linux can be used for--especially if all they've worked with is Windows.
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Puzzle of leaping liquid solved (video available)
Dutch researchers believe they have cracked the physics behind a mysterious bouncing behaviour of liquids, first seen more than 40 years ago.
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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Phoenix Mars Lander: Getting Down and Dirty On the Red Planet
The next Mars lander is undergoing assembly and testing, being readied for departure next year to explore the martian arctic. This probe is equipped to dig deep, quite literally, into an ongoing mystery�the history of water on Mars and the planet�s potential as an extraterrestrial address for life.
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Monday, April 03, 2006
Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula - BEAUTIFUL
"More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. These stars reside in a dramatic dust-and-gas landscape of plateaus, mountains, and valleys that are reminiscent of the Grand Canyon."
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simple and easy Linux File Structure Tree image
it lays out the file structure for linux in 2D graphically, which is especially useful to a new linux user. although it's not much of a web page, it is still very useful. probably won't make front page
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Sunday, April 02, 2006
Saturday, April 01, 2006
The Most Advanced Flight Deck
The world's biggest airliner also has the smartest cockpit, with screens that show more and make it easier to fly.
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Announcing: Movie-Plot Threat Contest
Schneier on Security
A weblog covering security and security technology.
For a while now, I have been writing about our penchant for "movie-plot threats": terrorist fears based on very specific attack scenarios. Terrorists with crop dusters, terrorists exploding baby carriages in subways, terrorists filling school buses with explosives -- these are all movie-plot threats. They're good for scaring people, but it's just silly to build national security policy around them.
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