2003.04.29
1 pixel per meter.
"Internet Explorer users may Click and Drag the starships to compare them as you like."
> Play with this on a large computer display. Remember, no crew is complete
without the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
Wired News:
Gibson Kicks the
Blogging Habit.
"After some ‘stage fright,’ he said he has found blogging deeply
enjoyable, though his 20-year-old daughter was initially horrified. ‘I
told my daughter I was going to do a blog, and it was as though I was going to
take up skateboarding,’ Gibson said."
2003.04.22
UC Berkeley News:
Continental
roots go deep, but not as deep as some people thought.
"‘It was very clear that you had a lithosphere about 80 kilometers thick,
on average, in the ocean basins, and under that is the asthenosphere -- the very
top of the mantle,’ said Barbara Romanowicz, professor of earth and
planetary science at UC Berkeley and director of the Berkeley Seismological
Laboratory." ...
"The continental lithosphere is composed of a thin, 30-50 kilometer-thick layer
of crust atop a hot layer of rock.... By taking into account [shear wave anisotropy],
the boundary between the [continental] lithosphere and asthenosphere works out to
be between 200 and 250 kilometers, in agreement with other methods."
2003.04.18
CNN:
Diet guru
Dr. Robert Atkins dead at 72.
"Dr. Robert Atkins, creator of the high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins Diet,
died Thursday after an accidental fall on April 8 left him comatose.... Atkins
slipped on an icy sidewalk outside his New York office."
Science News:
Black holes spew as much
as they consume.
"The winds travel at 20 to 40 percent of the speed of light and demonstrate
that black holes, though they comprise only one-thousandth of a galaxy's mass,
‘can exert a profound influence on galaxy evolution,’ comments
theorist Mitchell C. Begelman of the University of Colorado in Boulder."
Science News:
Exotic processes probe
the heart of matter.
"The new results promise to yield important information about the up and down
quarks that comprise protons and neutrons. Scientists haven't had enough information
to determine the masses of these quarks."
2003.04.03
When I saw this link I was a little worried that it might point to me --
The dullest blog in the world.
> If my site has been a little dry recently, it's not my fault. What with
the on-going war, the whole web has been rather humorless.
This one's a couple of days late, but what the heck --
Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time.
