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NASA has a composite picture of the earth at night.
Note the concentrations of light! I wonder how far out the lights would be visible to the naked eye.
Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth’s surface, [...]

On Wednesday of next week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be:
01:02:03 04/05/06
This won’t happen again for a 100 years.
(Thanks Bob N)

Joseph Nechvatal, my friend and intellectual compadre in viral realms, has his latest exhibition in Ohio. “Contaminations” has been extended to run through June 25th at the Butler Institute of American Art’s Beecher Center. The show includes a selection of computer-robotic assisted paintings starting in the mid-1980’s and concludes with a recent electronic viral installation.
Go [...]

A major find in Western Cypress, in an already-looted tomb near the village of Kouklia, in the coastal Paphos area. The area contained several ancient cemeteries that belonged to the town of Palaepaphos, site of a temple to Aphrodite (goddess of beauty and love, believed to have risen from the waves of the nearby sea).
The [...]

AT&T and BellSouth plan to merge into a single colossus (it also includes Cingular wireless). The merger is the largest yet among U.S. telecom players. AT&T, already the nation’s largest telecommunications company, will become the largest broadband provider with nearly 10 million subscribers. This deal must be protested and stopped.
It would resurrect the Ma Bell [...]

I want to work for Google.
TIME: Life in the Googleplex Photo Essay
Call me. I’m a perfect quirky PhD - I’ll fit right in! I could head your ethics department, for example.

I’ve decided to go with a new service - Feedblitz - to deliver my rss feed in email format.
This one looks like a big improvement. I was able to import my subscriptions from Bloglet (where delivery was too unreliable), so anyone who was getting emails from there will notice a change.
If you would like [...]