Better, Faster Spacecraft Designs: New Software System Offers Promise of NASA-wide Collaboration | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

Your tax dollars at work in software engineering.

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Engine may be moon-trip choice

Sound decision. Better and cheaper.

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news @ nature.com - Geometric whirlpools revealed - Recipe for making symmetrical holes in water is easy.

from Tom Knox. One wonders if there's an additional harmonic.

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World's Strongest Glue! Available Only From Nature! - Yahoo! News

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Linking Customer Support and Stock Prices - New York Times

Great customer service has a direct correlation to stock price? Fascinating.

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[via MacDailyNews] Coinstar wants customers to turn change into tunes - Apr. 12, 2006

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Senate votes to hike debt limit to $8.965 trillion - Mar. 16, 2006

"Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said the rapid run-up in U.S. debt since 2002 was because of the "reckless fiscal policies of this president" and because of a Republican-controlled Congress that he said is a "rubber stamp" of Bush's initiatives."

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CNN Money: As [mortgage] rates go up, risk of price corrections follow - Mar. 14, 2006

Sort by median home price and you'll see something amazing: 14 of the top 15 housing locations are in California. You'll never guess which state has the other one.

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VH1.com : Def Leppard - What is "Gunter glieben glauchen globen"?

Okay, yes I've loved Def Leppard forever. I have everything up to Adrenalize. But I've always wondered what the heck the first words of "Rock of Ages" were. Here's the answer ... sort of.

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BusinessWeek on Apple Security

(via MacDailyNews) "Uninformed media sources will do what they do best -- sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt." Too true. I don't agree with his recommendation, but the rest of the article sums up the present picture well.

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ABC News: Costco CEO Finds Pro-Worker Means Profitability

I've been a Costco member for only 1.5 years, but I've gotten a lot of amazingly good feedback from others in that time. This is just more evidence.

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Ed Foster's Gripelog || Jeers and Cheers for Retail Stores

The comments on the Gripelog are good reading too. Way down in the comments is this gem:

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Original Title: Large Prize Offered For Writing Mac Virus

The points made in this post are clearly made: market share arguments are blown up by consideration of Linux, AIX and Solaris. Proper context is given for the difficulties of malware propagation.

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The story behind Operation: Mindcrime by Queensrÿche

I have loved this Queensrÿche album for a long time, respecting that it's a rock opera (and being a fan of the Who). But this page helped me to finally understand. Man, this is deep.

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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Man, I'm not sure I agree with the rankings, but there's an awfully good selection. The Pink Panther movies, for example? They should be higher. Marx Brothers?

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NSSTC News: Meida Advisory

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Boinx Software - Mouseposé

Now Intel Mac compatible, this is a way to automatically highlight an area around the mouse when you're doing a presentation. It's even free.

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Americans work more, seem to accomplish less - Yahoo! News

(via Tom Knox). I resemble this, in spades

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Wi-Fi to Go: The Hot Spot in a Box - New York Times

"Broadband access is designed for individual customers. When customers use unauthorized devices to share the service, they are in violation of their service agreements," said Brenda Raney, a Verizon Wireless spokeswoman.

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Day2Day Activities: How they named companies

Got this from Guy Kawasaki's weblog. Fascinating look at corporate naming. I understand Mitsubishi now.

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MacNN | Linux boots on 17-inch iMac Core Duo

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NASA New Horizons Mission: The PI's Perspective: Tom's Cruise | Pluto Today

A new site, Pluto Today, will track the New Horizons probe and show news related to Pluto, Charon, and Kuiper Belt objects. There's an RSS Feed. This is going to be COOL.

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Public Domain Movie Torrents with PDA iPod Divx PSP versions

This site is a great resource. The iPod with video has spawned a conversion of movies to iPod-compatible MP4. It took a long time to download Gamera the Invincible, but it was fun to see this movie from my childhood again.

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Hi Fi & Home Cinema Cables Set To Be Killed Off

I've been wondering when this would happen. There's a killing to be made in this: just imagine the applications in sound studios, concerts, theaters and other public places of sound.

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A No-Fuss Laptop Cover - New York Times

This looks cool. I can see just carrying this to meetings, and have what I need.

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