nasa officials have lost contact with the space shuttle columbia over texas airspace. circumstantial reports of an explosion a hundred miles north of dallas. no news of the web.
update:9:34a.m. EST video on tv showing multiple fragments of flaming material falling to ground. nasa has declared an emergency.
9:43a.m. EST still nothing on news.google.
Resources for Coverage of Shuttle Disaster.
well that didn't take long - Ted mulling AOL Time Warner bid:
" "He's talking to people about buying AOL Time Warner," said Turner biographer Porter Bibb, managing director at investment firm Technology Partners. "When a company is trading at book value of $55 billion, some would consider this a steal.""
besides filling me in on a boatload of info that i didn't know about ted turner, steve maclaughlin finishes "the wounded animal" with a spot-on prediction:
"Having watched most of his personal fortune go down the tubes thanks to the AOL whiz kids, Turner might be game for a little revenge. I wouldn't be surprised if Turner is the first person to pull out his pocketknife to help carve up the media giant's fallen carcass. Play ball!"
it's amazing to see the geourl database begin to get a crazy number of submissions. there's even a movabletype plugin that allows you to geocode and register individual posts. as usual, such low barriers raise the spectre of abusing the system, which prentiss riddle is pondering:
"What happens if every business, blog, or blog entry -- in the standard metaphor, every lightbulb -- has a GeoURL? Aside from the question of whether a central GeoURL server can handle the load, won't the concept soon cease to be useful if every GeoURL report consists of a jumble of 500 "things" in the immediate neighborhood? Imagine you hit the GeoURL button on your PDA while walking down the street and it coughs up Joe Bloe's five-year-old report of what he was thinking while eating a sandwich at Subway, thirteen competing business directory listings for Toy Joy, a bit of GeoSpam about a sale at Buffalo Exchange, the current status of the 29th & Guadalupe traffic signal, the locations of any GPS- and WiFi-enabled vehicles or pedestrians waiting for the light..."
[ via morelikethis ]
800 missiles to hit Iraq in first 48 hours :
"It is based on a strategy known as "Shock and Awe", conceived at the National Defense University in Washington, in which between 300 and 400 cruise missiles would fall on Iraq each day for two consecutive days. It would be more than twice the number of missiles launched during the entire 40 days of the 1991 GulfWar."
Analyst confirms US nuclear war plans :
"One of the most respected nuclear weapons analysts in the United States says he has been shown documents which confirm the US military is considering using nuclear weapons in a war with Iraq."
so i get this e.mail from a certain someone and it's the kind of e.mail i enjoy getting. smart people discussing interesting things. as usual i'm left with a feeling of mild unease. you know - maybe since i was born three months premature, i'm finally seeing the effects of that bit of brain damage that everyone suspected would show up sooner or later. except this particular email is freaking me out even more so, because it's reminding me that my xml processing kung fu is so, well, 2001.
dang.
mozilla just crashed on my ibook . for whatever reason i suddenly became intensely aware that i couldn't remember the last time this happened. sometime over the past few months, averages and probabilities and statistics have been unconsciously calculated, and it's now notable when the browser crashes. worth commenting on even [ or not, i suppose ].
sometimes it's your time. and sometimes it's not:
"A teenager was catapulted at least 25 feet in the air during an auto accident but grabbed onto overhead utility wires like an action hero and dangled for about 20 minutes before a rescue crew brought him down by ladder."
Fugu - A Mac OS X SFTP, SCP and SSH Frontend
"Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application (SFTP). SFTP is similar to FTP, but unlike FTP, the entire session is encrypted, meaning no passwords are sent in cleartext form, and is thus much less vulnerable to third-party interception."
[ via rasterweb ]
despite all evidence to the contrary, this is not the all- foaf -all-the-time channel. however, i will say that i'm all for kellan's suggestion for a foaf support group . i humbly submit that all members of the group shall feel free to add all other members to their foaf files.
l.m. orchard has also wondered about foaf relationship etiquette . he points to eric vitiello's relationship module , which takes a stab at formalizing relationship semantics:
"relationship is a module for extending the usefullness of the foaf:knows element. This is accomplished by aliasing the foaf:knows element into elements that describe the relationship between people in more detail."
i'm not sure how much traction the module has seen, but over at internet alchemy you can get a glimpse on how to integrate in into a foaf file .
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“The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It's easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture's attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we're suspicious of strangers. They're a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web.”
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