] The decomposing remains of a 60-tonsperm whale exploded
] on a busy Taiwan street, showering nearby cars and shops
] with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours,
] local newspapers said.

[ ick.

Does anyone else remember that video that was cycling the net, oh, i guess about 5 or 6 years ago, where a beached whale had died and they chose to try and "blast" it off the beach? Pieces of decaying blubber were raining down on the cameraman and busting up cars and shit. Man was that funny. ]-k

Random picture of the day - Whale Exploded

just click on the photos link... it pops up a bunch of photos of this graffiti bot... very very cool.

Hektor.ch

] At the nerve center of each MER rover is a 6-by 9-inch
] electronics board containing one computer responsible for
] every process that goes into a mission, whether it be
] monitoring spacecraft health in transit, deploying
] parachutes during landing or roving about the red planet.
] The computer, called a RAD6000, is a tried and true
] component for NASA space mission that has formed the
] brains of past Mars missions in the, as well as the
] recent Stardust comet encounter.

k-rad, even. sorry, couldn't help myself...

the venerable powerpc in yet another form.

Thinking on Mars: The Brains of NASA's Red Planet Rovers

Escher drawings made 3-D physical in LEGO blocks. AMAZING!

[ that's frickin awesome. god, i love lego...]-k

Escher's 'Ascending and Descending' in LEGO

from the much ballyhooed best page in the universe...

] I'm impressed that they've been able to take a 2D
] character with a 1D personality and bloat it into a 3D
] disaster. With a tagline like "it's all about ME-OW," you
] can be guaranteed the cinematic equivalence of having
] your hand fed to a wood chipper when this mind-dump hits
] the screen. The tagline would be more fitting if it were
] changed to "it's all about
] ME-OH-SHIT-I-THINK-I-JUST-HAD-AN-ANEURISM." A movie about
] Garfield? What next, a sequel to "The Mask" starring a
] CGI baby?

yeah. that sums up my feelings too...

Garfield the movie

] THE CONGRESSIONAL Budget Office released its new deficit
] projections yesterday, and the bad news is that the
] deficit is forecast to total nearly $2.4 trillion over
] the next decade, almost $1 trillion more than the
] estimate just five months ago. The worse news is that the
] actual prognosis is far grimmer. Because the budget
] office is required by law to ignore some likely costs,
] the more realistic scenario is that the federal
] government will spend about $5 trillion more over the
] next 10 years than it takes in.

ouch.

Dangerous Deficits (washingtonpost.com)

James Carville says the number is 35%. Anything over 35% for Kerry and he's pretty much rolling. Anything less opens it up wide for 2/3.

Exciting politics.

CNN.com - Carville: Kerry needs big win to solidify position - Jan. 27, 2004

] Microsoft could soon be facing multi-billion euro fines
] and other sanctions for breaking European competition
] law.

we'll see...

BBC NEWS | Business | EU's mind 'made up' on Microsoft

] Challenged by Blitzer that the media did not create his
] performance in Des Moines, Dean said, "But you chose to
] play it 673 times in one week. That's your privilege.
]
]
] "If you want to be president of the United States, you
] had better be willing to take whatever the news media
] throw at you, and I'm very willing to take it," he said.

CNN.com - Dean predicts comeback, takes swipe at media - Jan. 26, 2004

]] The H3Viewer library provides layout and interactive
]] navigation of node-link graphs in 3D hyperbolic space.
]
]Now this is how I want to see my social network laid out. Don't ]know if it is any good, but it looks pretty cool

very interesting. i'm not competent to comment on the math, but it seems pretty smart.

silly academics need to put screenshots on the main page though, not buried inside a bunch of papers... don't they know most people only care for the shiny things? ;)

H3Viewer