Thanks to Scot for sharing this one. While the article is full of horrible plans, the author is up front explaining that the earth is very old and rock solid. Go Earth!
Now playing: Saturn Return by R.E.M
How To Destroy The Earth
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The Music of The Passion
I heard an interview with Andy Trudeau explaining why he thinks John Debney deserves the Oscar for the musical score of The Passion of the Christ. It is fascinating to listen how complex the music is and how much influence Mel Gibson had on the music. For example, Gibson thought that the most painful scenes visually should have the most beautiful music.
Listen to this with headphones or a computer with good speakers.
Wikipedia – It works
Below is a link to a rather long, academic article that argues why Wikipedia is as good as and even better than conventional Encyclopedias.
Anyone can add an article. Anyone can edit any article. Anyone can undo anyone’s edits. Sounds like a formula for chaos, and indeed sometimes there are “Wikiwars” when an argument over an article (often political) begins. Some steering group helps govern these.
In practice, Wikipedia is amazingly orderly and professional.
I agree with the author that Wikipedia is a very useful resource. I use links to it in my own blog postings and e-mails. I visit it regularly to look things up. I also end up visiting it because others use it as a reference.
Greg added an entry for Rosary Army. Looking under the edits history it looks like others have come in and helped “tidy up” the article. I thinking the word organisation (a British spelling) is evidence of such tidying.
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UFOs and Peter Jennings
Wake the kids and gather the family around. Thursday night from 8 pm to 10 pm.
ABC News: The UFO Phenomenon — Seeing Is Believing
(Kathy was born in Roswell, New Mexico.)
Trackbacks Locked Up
Kelly and I went through the MovableType MySQL database and closed over 120 old blog entries with open Trackback pings. This involved the repetative task of going row by row and changing a 1 to a 0.
I also deleted the trackback spam entries from the database, most advertising on-line gambling.
Since we don’t really use trackbacks (we all seem to use comments instead), I recommend not leaving this option open when posting a new entry.
And for the moment, no one can leave a trackback because I changed the name of mt-tb.cgi until I can implement some kind of security to prevent trackback spam.
Mena, Ben, and Six Apart
A news story about the creaters of MovableType (and TypePad.)
Mimas and Blue Skys
This is a remarkable “natural light” photograph of the moon Mimas floating in front of Saturn.
Hopkin Explained
Ted found this story: Hopkin Explained, the story behind lostfrog.org which is now up to 119 variations. One of my favorites is the modified Pioneer plaque that has left our solar system. This article explains that the plaque will outlast the Earth and the Sun. If the Internet follows us to new worlds, then Hopkin may outlast the Earth and Sun, too.
Setting up FTP Account
Instructions on setting up an FTP only account (so that the mac5 bloggers can add/delete/change their pictures, templates, and non-blog web pages.
Mac OS X FTP Server Administration
Panoramic Apollo
This requires QuickTimeVR which can be installed free. It looks (and sounds) great on our widescreen iMac.
Apollo 11 – 17 Mission First man on the Moon – Fullscreen QTVR photo from panoramas.dk