Snarky title aside, this telescope probably wouldn’t have been possible without the contributions from Gates and Simonyi.
http://snurl.com/1wngv
"… a three-billion-pixel detector" that will produce "…30 terabytes of data each night". Wow. My question, of course, is where will all that data get stored?
Tags: telescope, microsoft, stars, astronomy
I read the below article in Wired a few days ago and was so struck by it that I had to write about it here. A friend and I had talked about this very topic the previous Sunday while hiking south of Denver, so this was already on my mind.
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/15-10/ff_plant_formula
The article stresses that the process [...]
“We have our missing Boy Scout.”
As a parent, this absolutely thrills me. As a Scout leader in my area, I am relieved that this had a happy outcome for the Troop. Nice job by the Search & Rescue teams.
Missing Scout Found (from sfgate)
Don’t look so surprised - Wal-Mart is in fact going into communities where classic economic redevelopment has failed, or worse yet, has never even been attempted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/19/financial/f091544S30.DTL
Wal-Mart gets lots of criticism for lots of things, and as an employer that brings together a population greater in size than many American cities, this is no surprise. When [...]
I came across this story yesterday and the more I think about about, the more it inspires me to move forward with some of the things I’m working on (look here over the next few weeks for details)
This kid is a 7th grader from New Jersey who got involved in raising funds - and awareness [...]
@markdowds Very nice. Just you and your son? What an awesome way to spend the day. 2 hrs ago