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February 17, 2008

Lunar eclipse on February 20

Science@NASA says that "maximum beauty" occurs at 7:26PM PST.

Posted by Charles at 01:59 PM

February 11, 2008

That gray area between apples and oranges

...maybe not for the reason you think though:

I quickly confessed that when it came to computers, I fell into that vast gray area between being a moron and a complete idiot.

I can't resist linking to the above article too, thanks to reading about it elsewhere. As John Gruber notes,

Astounding: Guy buys $1800 Dell notebook loaded with Vista, screwed up the machine so bad with Norton Anti-Virus that it wouldn't work at all, spends $800 for a consultant to fix it, and he's so glad to have the machine back in working order that he's happy as a clam about the whole thing.
Posted by Charles at 11:16 AM

February 05, 2008

"...a creature of its own making"

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ordered the Navy to put safeguards in place during sonar maneuvers in order to protect marine mammals from needless injury and death. Shortly after that ruling, President Bush issued his "emergency" waiver, attempting to override the court's order. Judge Cooper called the Navy's so-called emergency "a creature of its own making," and reaffirmed that the military can train effectively without needlessly harming whales.

Press release here.

NPR story here.

Posted by Charles at 01:03 PM






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