] Minghella, a former university professor, saw influences
] in Frazier's book as disparate as medieval English
] literature and 12th-century Chinese poetry.

This article hints at a lot more depth to Cold Mountain than i'd have imagined...

Mercury News | 12/23/2003 | Filmmaker found tale he simply had to tell

] Never has a spacecraft been built so quickly, on so
] little money, and been sent on such a long journey
] fraught with so many dangers.

nice overview of the work Beagle 2 has ahead of it...

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Beagle probe faces its big challenge

gimme a break.

people waste SO MUCH time.

PacMan in Excel

You may recognize Osbornes work from the Kenna video for Hell Bent (one of the best ever, IMHO).

This is his site, where you can buy the full length short (6 mins) from which the video was cut, as well as prints, shirts and another short film...

(He shot his films in IMAX format!)

Are You Ready to Get Happy?

] Essentially, the smaller a machine is, the greater the
] chance that it will run backwards. It could be extremely
] difficult to control.
]
] The researchers said: "This result has profound
] consequences for any chemical or physical process that
] occurs over short times and in small regions."

well, that would make things tougher, yes...

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Beads of doubt

] Norway's most famous computer whiz got an early Christmas
] present on Monday. An appeals court in Oslo upheld Jon
] Lech Johansen's earlier acquittal on all counts of
] alleged copyright violations.

Round Two goes to Jon!

DVD-Jon wins new legal victory

] It is called the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network
] Computing (BOINC). BOINC acts like a software platform
] that can run a number of screen-saver style applications
] on top of the PC's own operating system. The system will
] also solve some of the problems that have dogged
] distributed projects.
]

We already knew that Scientific Progress goes BOINK!

Ok, maybe the spelling has changed, but Calvin's been on this for years ;)

New Scientist | Software shares out spare processing power

Some of the renderings are very pretty. I still have some mixed feelings about it, but overall i think it will be a great addition to the skyline.

now, about the anti-aircraft weapons they'll be mounting to it....

Architects Unveil Revised Freedom Tower Design

] "The main issue behind it was a way to connect people
] subtly, without being intrusive," said Bassoli. "And
] music is the way teenagers want to open themselves to
] people around them."

i don't even want to begin to get into the legal smackdown these people are going to get...

it's too bad... this is a truly awesome idea. if allowed to propagate, this could really be a windfall for lots of subtle social interactions.

[edit]
] Technology pundit Andrew Orlowski, on the other hand, is more
] concerned that tunA does not have downloading capabilities.
]
] "I'm not sure that a device that would allow streaming but
] wouldn't allow you to copy would be very popular," he said.

well, since it's conceptually not about trading music as much as sharing (in the proper sense of the word), i'm not sure that's a major issue... but perhaps a solution is to allow the exchange of metadata (the title, artist, etc, or something more sophisticated like the RIAA-proposed metafile for sharing that was memed a few days back)... enough, at least, to allow you to purchase the track you'd been streaming earlier. That sounds like an acceptible compromise to me.

TunA Lets Users Fish for Music

] Can Dean be stopped? A stop-Dean movement may appear
] quixotic, but it's not. Dean has no lock on Iowa, and a
] lead even as large as Dean's in New Hampshire is always
] precarious. Many Democrats are terrified that a nominee
] who vehemently opposes the war, likens the Bush
] administration to the Taliban, and plans to raise taxes
] on the middle class can't be elected. But they've been
] scared into silence by Dean's tough talk and momentum.

CBS News | Stop Howard Dean | December 18, 2003 14:30:42