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- The Stardust cometary probe has sent back jaw-dropping pictures of the WILD 2 comet nucleus. The primary mission is to scoop up some debris particles by trapping them in an esoteric substance called aerogel, and now, if all goes well, bringing them back to Earth for study. But even if that fails, these images of one of the solar system’s most difficult photographic targets will prove invaluable to understanding these brilliant and ancient relics of our solar neighbourhood. It was just two-plus years ago that the Deep Space 1 robot rounded out its successful test of an ion-propulsion system by swinging by Comet Borrelly, capturing our first look at a comet nucleus. |
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- Lakers Just Keep Falling in Seattle LA Times Jan 3 2004... |
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Nice shoes (Jan 03 2004 18:59 GMT) - Medium Footwear's collection of new shoe designs look pretty cool. They seem right about midway between skate shoe and hipster shoe to me (tending towards hip for the sake of being hip), which is what I'm currently liking in my... |
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02 (Jan 03 2004 18:59 GMT) - Number of miners killed on the job fallsPIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The number of miners killed on the job in the United States fell to 55 in 2003, the fewest deaths since the federal government began keeping track in 1910.Preliminary figures from the U.S. |
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- Gas & OilPleasant Grove man appointed to petroleum association -- Mark Walker, owner of Walker's, a minimart chain in Pleasant Grove, was elected second vice president of the Western Petroleum Marketers Association, a Salt Lake City-based trade association representing petroleum marketers in eight states including Utah. |
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- PARMA, Italy -- Taking over his father's salami business as a 22-year-old college dropout, Calisto Tanzi used key innovations -- sterile packaging and sports marketing -- to make milk more than a bland commodity.The result was an Italian food powerhouse called Parmalat that charged through the 1990s with explosive global sales growth and acquisitions. |
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- NEW YORK -- The nation's manufacturing sector finished 2003 with its most robust month of growth in 20 years.The Institute for Supply Management reported Friday that its manufacturing index jumped to 66.2 in December from 62.8 the previous month, strong evidence that the economic turnaround continues to pick up steam. |
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- NEW YORK -- Companies are expected to step up hiring in 2004 after a year in which household spending boosted the economy more than business investment, according to a group of economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal.The 54 economists surveyed for the Journal's 2004 economic-forecast report said they thought the unemployment rate could fall to 5. |
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- Introduction I needed a small Windows XP machine and a Mini-ITX board was the obvious choice. So I decided to build my "Windows XP Box" in a Windows XP box. The external dimensions of the box are a tiny 243mm x 200mm x 48mm. ¬> |
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Go here. (Jan 03 2004 18:58 GMT) - Very thankful that I am not on the approach to Dulles but rather Regan National. However, this whole thing doesn't work when no one is in town, they won't be back to run the Congress or the White House in mid month, so you could crash into a building today but it's not going to give your the collateral damages you seek. But then who said these people were smart? Mars tonight at 0435 1135 est. Go here. |
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- CNN Jan 3 2004 12:52PM ET... |
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- CNN Jan 3 2004 12:52PM ET... |
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- AP via Newsday Jan 3 2004 12:39PM ET... |
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- Alcoholism. I have been a victim of alcoholism since I could remember and that continues today. I cannot remember a... |
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- Share Your OPML: View Scott Hanson's Feeds... |
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- I really didn't want to report this, but the mug shots made me. Hope Ged and Neil can bail him out.... |
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- "A shot to kill": This editorial appears today in The St. Petersburg Times. |
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- AOL still largest, but still leaking. ISP-Planet compares ISP subscriber growth as of the third quarter of 2003. 77.4 million US home users connect to the web in some way, nearly 25 million of them still doing so via AOL. ISP-Planet uses data ending in September, so the true stats vary.. |
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- Exploring legit music services. Though many have declared the RIAA their moral enemy, and will download pirated music for life, many are now exploring legit music alternatives. The industry is hoping there's enough of them to sustain a business in the next few years. This New Yor.. |
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- Class Action nets users $45. Many existing and former Verizon Wireless customers will be entitled to credits (as high as $45) from a class-action lawsuit against the company filed back in 2000. The suit alleges the company poorly explained fees and charges, misled consumers as .. |
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- J'ai profité des congés de fin d'année pour faire quelques améliorations sur le site. Désormais les articles sont accompagnés de quelques liens provenant de G ... |
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- It's cold, windy and snowing again here in Seattle. The snow barely counts as snow, but it still serves... |
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- While I've been trying my hardest to do nothing but keep my fanny parked on the couch and rest,... |
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- So, after all our griping about our TV set over the year, last month we got a replacement when Ian's great aunt went into a nursing home. It's same brand, slightly larger screen, and doesn't have the problem with insufficient brightness that caused so many problems with our old one. However, this one has a slightly different problem that one of the circuit boards may be loose, meaning that we'd get audio but no video unless we thumped the back of the screen numerous times upon first turning it on. [We really don't watch enough TV to make a new one worth buying.] Finally, a few days ago, we realized that merely tilting the television back a few degrees was sufficient and eliminated the need for repetitive thumping. |
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- Britney Spears, Kobe Bryant, and Paris Hilton were all at the same New Years' party. And yet, no planes crashed into it. (Item and joke idea via FARK)... |
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- Tony Blair and the Queen offer condolences after an Egyptian plane crash that left 148 people dead. |
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- Gillingham produce a shock as they knock high-flying Charlton out of the FA Cup. |
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- Search and rescue teams from five counties join police in the hunt for a woman who has gone missing from her home. |
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