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September, 2006
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Voyager 1 and 2 Going Strong after 30 Years and are Full Of Surprises
Almost 30 years later, with the gas giants long ago seen and done, Voyager 1 is still going and encountering some strange things.Almost every day, the great antennas of NASA’s Deep Space Network turn to a blank patch of sky in the constellation Ophiuchus…. Almost 30 years later, with the gas giants long ago seen and done, Voyager 1 is still going and encountering some strange things.”We’ve entered a totally new region of space,” says Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist and the former director of JPL.
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Teddy a 3D Java Drawing Application and Smooth Teddy (Version 2)
Even though a few years old this is still fun and interesting: Teddy is a Java-Applet Drawing Program that takes the 2D images you draw and renders them in 3D…. This is truly a cool program for anyone and everyone!The developer Takeo Igarashi has now also released a new version called Smooth Teddy, that features a nice list of enhancements.
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Polar Caps Keep Melting Away: 2004 to 2005 by 14%
LiveScience.com’s Staff writer Sara Goudarzi has written an article about this subject and presents a few satellite images and data to support the facts. In any case it seems within 20 years we will be able to take a ship across the north pole, since it will be all molten away by then.
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Drive Mel: Online Game For the Break At Work
Here is a flash game that lets you test your skills driving through Hollywood, while drunk and trying to avoid cops and flying stars of david. Thank god the street is straight, no curves.
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WordPress: List of New Plugins and Other Useful Add-Ons
Only interesting to you if you know what WP stands for. ;-) Check it out.
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Google and the world of Mashup Ideas for conquering new markets
Mashup is taking google tools and sites and using some bright idea and connecting it to eachother in interesting and useful ways that no one has yet thought of. Usually none of them are that sensational, but what useful mini mashup widgets get created within a week can take the world by storm with a few days.
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Web 2.0: Winners and Losers according to Wired
Judge for yourself what Wired has to say, go here.
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Battlestar Galactica “Resistance” Webisodes are a Big Success
The first two installments generated 1.2 million streams in one week, achieving in seven days more than half the total number of streams SCI FI Pulse delivered in the previous month.”"The phenomenal success of The Resistance proves that there is a definite audience for webisodes that can have an impact on TV viewing,” Craig Engler, senior vice president of SCIFI.COM and SCI FI Magazine, said in a statement…. People who have never watched the show before are very excited to become new viewers.”New two- to three-minute installments of The Resistance will debut every Tuesday and Thursday at noon ET, leading up to the Oct. 6 season premiere of Battlestar Galactica on SCI FI Channel.The webisodes are from the creative team behind the show and chronicle the days following the events of the second-season finale.
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U-HDTV: Ultra High Definition Television at 7680 x 4320 pixels
Consumers are still getting to grips with the technology needed to watch its super-sharp pictures but researchers from Japanese state broadcaster NHK have already developed its successor.”"Ultra High Definition TV was on display for the first time in Europe at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam…. Although the system is ultimately designed for television, current technology means it can only be shown on a cinema screen using a state of the art projector.There is no LCD or plasma screen in the world with a high enough resolution to display its pictures.