] As the NOAA-N Prime spacecraft was being repositioned
] from vertical to horizontal on the "turn over cart" at
] approximately 7:15 PDT today, it slipped off the fixture,
] causing severe damage. (See attached photo). The 18'
] long spacecraft was about 3' off the ground when it fell.

Earth Science Missions Anomaly Report: GOES/POES Program/POES Project:

] Jack is a low-latency audio server, written primarily for the
] GNU/Linux operating system. It can connect a number of
] different applications to an audio device, as well as
] allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its
] clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal
] applications), or can they can run within the JACK server
] (ie. as a "plugin").
]
] JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that
] it has been designed from the ground up to be suitable
] for professional audio work. This means that it focuses
] on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients,
] and low latency operation.

Jack Darwin/MacOSX port

] ERIE, Pa. - A pizza delivery man told police he had been
] forced to rob a bank and asked authorities to help him
] minutes before a bomb strapped to his chest exploded and
] killed him.
]
] On Saturday, federal agents and police in northwestern
] Pennsylvania were trying to solve the bizarre case of
] 46-year-old Brian Douglas Wells, who left to deliver a
] pizza to a mysterious address in a remote area about an
] hour before he turned up at the bank with a bomb strapped
] to his body.
]
] No one else was hurt in Thursday's explosion, which
] happened in front of law enforcement officers as they
] waited for a bomb squad to arrive.
]
] WJET-TV of Erie captured audio and video from Wells as
] he sat handcuffed in front of a state police cruiser.
] "Why is nobody trying to come get this thing off me?" he
] asked.

Yahoo! News - Officials Probe Bizarre Pa. Bank Robbery

] Lurch was born October 11, 1995 in Missouri, and came to
] live with me at 5 weeks of age. As he grew up, his horns
] grew very slowly! However, at about 2 years old it became
] increasingly apparent that something was going on with
] those horn bases and people began to take notice. At 3
] years old he was already the largest horn circumference
] known, but since he was actively growing I decided to
] wait on the Guinness certification.  Thinking he was done
] at 37.5 inches (he held that measurement for about a
] year) I went ahead and fulfilled the requirements for
] this prestigious award. Incredibly, he now has broken his
] own record! He measures 38 inches around  and is over 7
] feet tip to tip!  I guess it remains to be seen if he is
] done yet!

certificate

] There is something for everyone in this report: chronic
] under funding of the agency, lack of a clear compelling
] overall goal for America's space program, dysfunctional
] internal communications, rigid management, inability to
] spot trends, ambivalence to external advice, and a
] propensity to accept anomalies rather than fully
] understand them. Moreover, the CAIB makes it very clear
] that many lessons the agency should have learned after he
] Challenger accident either went unlearned, or were
] forgotten once learned.

Understanding Columbia - and Fixing NASA | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

] The Columbia Accident Investigation Board released its
] final report on Aug. 26, 2003. The report is posted here
] in three versions:

The NASA HQ page for downloading the CAIB report. Has higher resolution PDFs than the caib.us site.

Ad Astra Per Aspera - Semper Exploro

NASA - Columbia - Home

Nanochick wrote:
] One of the bands that opened up for Blue Man group....I loved
] this band! I had no idea that sounds like this could come out
] of Nashville. Strong female vocalist with electronic music in
] the background....so rad.

As an self-promotional aside, Tony and Kip (the guys on keyboards) each have a solo track on the Area615 compilation...

RE: Venus Hum   |    The Official Website

] BEVERLY HILLS (Reuters) - Calling himself a "smut
] peddler who cares," porn king Larry Flynt on Monday
] formally announced his bid for California governor but
] acknowledged that voters might not be able to stomach his
] sleazy background.

Yahoo! News - Flynt Bids for Calif. Gov. as Caring Smut Peddler

] Blue Origin LLC was created to research spacecraft and
] launch systems with the ultimate goal of contributing
] to an enduring human presence in space. Research at
] Blue Origin today is primarily focused on identifying
] and developing ideas that will improve the safety and
] decrease the cost of getting into space.

Jeff Bezos' own private spaceflight initiative. Check out the jobs page...

Blue Origin

"On a day when it has just been announced that another American soldier died and six were wounded in an ambush near Baghdad, when Secretary of State Rumsfeld is hinting at a future escalation of troop levels in Iraq and the possibility of rising attacks on U.S. forces over the length of the summer, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a group of retired intelligence agents, have written a memorandum to President Bush pointing the finger directly at the Vice President in the Niger forgery flap and calling for his resignation. ("Sad to say, it is equally clear that your vice president led this campaign of deceit. This was no case of petty corruption of the kind that forced Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation. This was a matter of war and peace. Thousands have died. There is no end in sight.") "

AlterNet: Intelligence Unglued