a cultural critique
In an announcement that will likely have long term implications for users of personal computers, the International Linux Foundation today reported that it will release a version of its operating system that will include a link to a distributed network.
Free voice and data services will be available through an international consortium’s program that deploys a proton-based global network. The telecommunications network’s potential was confirmed last week following research using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, and the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
I challenge us to consider the common phrase, knowledge is power.
Technorati, the recognized blog tracking service, reported that there are fifty-one million blogs were in publication as of today. This is one hundred times more blogs than were in existence when the tracking service started, three years ago.
I received word today that all of the cadets at the solo school in Hagerstown, Maryland had completd their first solo flights.
I flew from Fort Meade to Hagerstown, today, to catch lunch with my friend at the Civil Air Patrol cadet solo school. The weather was perfect for VFR flying, and the cadets are progressing well, in both their academic and flying skills.
John Stossel kept me in rapt attention, this afternoon.
C. Wylie Poag, a scientiest with the United States Geological Survey, describes a meteorite that crashed into the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago.
Jerry Dennis has written an excellent science book that is approriate for family reading.
Simon Winchester has again authored a thoroughly enjoyable book.
The United States Department of Defense and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence today issued a joint news release announcing a electronic urban battlefield personnel and weapons transportation system, codenamed EUBPAWT (pronounced EUW-paw). The EUBPAWT system utilizes a high-energy quantum mechanical electrical field to quantify the quantum molecular structure of living tissue, which is then spatially transported and interstitially reconstituted.
Two great and, in at least one way, antithetic men were born on this day in 1809. One advocated man’s natural evolvement; the other, God’s greater involvement.
I returned to Orville’s Restaurant at York Airport for more of its great Maryland crab soup. The restaurant respects the Old Line State’s most famous export by calling it red crab soup. However named, it is the best crab soup that I can recall ever having.
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERRSS) will move time backward one second on December 31, 2005. An extra second will be added at the end of the year to to account for the slowing of the Earth’s rotation. The IERRSS recognizes that our planet’s pace of rotation is unpredictable, and will institute the first leap second in seven years. Normally the leap second is a nearly annual event.
University of Michigan researchers have developed the first scalable quantum computer chip using principally the same semiconductor manufacturing process as integrated semiconductor chips. The researchers have been able to trap and control a single atom within a processor chip.
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on its front page that passenger aircraft around the world are often delayed because of unticketed and unwanted passengers.
French scientists reported it, and British scientists are working to develop an alternative. This is one of the continuing multinational efforts to reduce harmful greenhouse gases that are a major contributor to global warming. What are the two nations’ scientists working to reduce? Read on…
The Secret Life of Numbers is esoteric website that visually demonstrates the popularity of numbers between 0 and 100,000, based on the frequency that each number appears in the databases of popular search engines.
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to join the cadets from my Civil Air Patrol (CAP) squadron at the Frederick Municipal Airport (KFDK), today. We had a great time learning how to prepare, launch, and fly our wing’s glider.
According to the most recent U.S. Census data, 62 million households in the United States have an Internet-connected computer. That means just over half, 55 percent of homes have relatively easy access to the net, including e-mail and web resources. This data, current as of 2003, shows a five percent increase in connected computers, compared to the 2001 data, and more than triple the 18 percent connectivity rate reported in 1997.
