For the Lost fans / addicts out there…
The same gold car involved in accidents with Locke, Michael, and Kate.
The question is whether it was
What do you think?
I wonder how long it will be before Google Live Video Feed….
Using an armada of telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found the smallest planet ever detected around a normal star outside our solar system.
The extrasolar planet is five times as massive as Earth and orbits a red dwarf, a relatively cool star, every 10 years. The distance between the planet, designated OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, and its host is about three times greater than that between the Earth and the Sun. The planet’s large orbit and its dim parent star make its likely surface temperature a frigid minus 364 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 220 degrees Celsius). This temperature is similar to that of Pluto, but the newly found planet is about one-tenth closer to its star than Pluto is to the Sun.
Its detection, however, opens a new window in the search for Earth-like worlds.
“This finding means that Earth-mass planets are not that uncommon,” said Kailash Sahu of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., and a founding member of the Probing Lensing Anomalies Network team (PLANET) that helped detect the new planet. “If we found one, there must be more.”
Unless you have a music podcast, don’t do it in stereo. It’s a completely useless waste of space and bandwidth.
From 37Signals:
During health class in high school they taught us that taking LSD would make you jump out windows (y’know, cuz you think you can fly) and give you flashbacks. Here’s the other side of the story (from Wired’s recap of “LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug, an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann�): Steve Jobs told a NY Times reporter that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things he has done in his life.� Nobel-prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis told Hoffman that LSD helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences. Kevin Herbert, an early Cisco employee, fought to ban drug testing of technologists at the company because, as he put it, “When I’m on LSD and hearing something that’s pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into another brain state where I’ve stopped thinking and started knowing.� Hofmann, who’s still alive, says, “There is global healing in these compounds which have been used for millennia by indigenous people that have much to teach modern man and modern woman.�
Hello DriveImage XML. For anyone who’s ever need to make an image of their hard drives for various reasons, you’ve probably come across products like Norton/Symantec Ghost, which I’ve used for a while until I recently found the DriveImage product, which happens to be better in a lot of ways and it’s free.
In addition to being able to do live copies of the running OS (using the Volume Shadow Service) and being able to browse and extract individual files from the images at a later date, there is a plugin which allows you to run it in WinPE.
I don’t remember if I’ve blogged about this before (and I don’t want to check right now), but I’ve found all sorts of interesting uses for the WinPE utility, which allows you to run Windows XP from a boot CD, which you need to do for things like easily working with NTFS drives, etc. WinPE is normally only available to OEMs, but normal everyday users can make use of it courtesy of PEBuilder.
In light of recurring stories like this one, I think someone needs to develop the next killer OS project: free search.
I would propose that it would be a system of loosely coupled (ie: decentralized, not owned by any one person) servers which all run the same search application and share data with each other, mirroring the indexes in idle time so that if any one server goes down, not much would be lost. It should also be explicitly designed to not to have the ability to store records or logs of any of the search information.
Maybe someone out there has already started on something similar, I’ll have to look around.
Following up on my comment from this post, about not seeing American Idol last night, I realized that there are very few TV shows for which I actually make an effort to see every episode. I do like the tryout shows for American Idol (and none of the episodes after that part), but I don’t go out of my way to see them, or even bother to set them up to record on the DVR, which just goes to show that I really don’t care about them.
Probably the only shows I will make an effort to watch (or at least record on the DVR) are Lost, the Office, and Survivor (when it’s on). Even the Office I forgot about last week. I could set up the DVR to just always record those shows weekly, but I haven’t even bothered to do that.
For any other TV watching I do, I will just see what’s on at the time. If there’s a poker game, I will probably watch that. Otherwise I’ll check to see if there’s any other shows I like and if not just turn it off.
I guess my point is that the DVR is supposed to radically change your TV watching habits, but for me it hasn’t much. Maybe part of it is that I’m not that into TV in the first place. I always mean to sit down and set up recording for the shows that I would like but don’t watch often (Letterman, etc.) even if I never get around to watching them (just setting them to delete if there is no more free space), thereby making full use of the DVR by being able to watch something I actually want to see at any time of the day I choose to watch it, but it’s just not a big priority for me.
Also, I think with the availability of shows on bittorrent, it makes it easier to not even worry about planning to record the shows, because if you miss them, it’s no big deal because you can just download them that night or the next day.
The only good part of this show is on right now: the tryouts. These are really entertaining for so many reasons; mostly they’re funny, but it’s also interesting to watch the judges try to discover new (and sometimes not too insulting) ways of telling people they suck.