August 17, 2005
where in the world was ISS?
My current desktop background is a large, beautiful photo of the ISS soaring over the Earth, taken by the crew of Discovery. I love the photo, but one aspect of it bugs me: where is it? There are definitely enough landmarks to figure that out (a river, a bay, an atoll off the coast), but the lack of any scale or orientation has made it a real toughie.
Does anyone have an idea where it is? Backing up your claim with a Google Maps URL would be ideal.
July 08, 2005
today we are all Londoners
"...nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail."
- Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London
Full text of his statement below.
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April 26, 2005
This just in...
Generalísimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
December 07, 2004
for some values of 'freedom'
A Boston Globe article raises a good point about the current situation in Falluja. The city has been "secured" by the simple method of removing all its residents and shooting anyone who remained. The problem with that winning strategy? Letting anyone back in.
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August 16, 2004
Athens
Twenty years ago, excited by the Summer Olympic Games being in Los Angeles (and by playing Summer Games on the Apple //c), some friends and I recreated the Olympics in our own neighborhood. Each of us picked a country to represent, and we competed in a series of (probably very lame) "events" to determine who would get the (probably plastic) "gold medal". Like the actual Olympics, we spent much more time and effort on the rules and ceremonies than on the actual sports, but that wasn't the point.