Lost – The Kitty Blue Episode
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Featuring the music of Lawrence Lipbone Redding.
Aging weather satellite fleet at risk
Friday, February 23rd, 2007• In particular, there is ”substantial concern” about the pending loss of an important satellite-based instrument employed by tropical weather forecasters and hurricane researchers.
The QuikSCAT information helps scientists estimate wind speeds at the ocean’s surface. That information contributes to year-round forecasts of marine conditions, and it’s crucially important to hurricane specialists, helping them assess the strength of storms that are far from land and often enabling the identification of new tropical systems.
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But the device is well past its designed lifetime, which was expected to end by 2002, and budget concerns and technical compromises prompted NOAA to replace it with a less sophisticated instrument that still hasn’t been launched, the committee said.
• Much of NASA’s budget and many of its scientists are being diverted to the human space program that was reenergized by President Bush’s proposal to send astronauts back to the moon and onward to Mars.
The president’s 2007 budget reduced NASA’s research and analysis budget for science missions 15 percent compared to 2005. Since 2000, the agency’s earth-science budget has been slashed 30 percent. That caused the elimination of some projects, including measurements of solar radiation and Earth radiation that could help scientists understand global warming.
New footage just prior to Kennedy Assassination
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
There’s a shot of the Book Depository at the very end.
Rep. Mike Lawlor press briefing on Krayeske Arrest
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Ken Krayeske is a blogger and political activist in Conneticut. He was arrested for photographing Connecticut governor Jodi Rell at her inaugural parade.
Inaugural arrest prompts proposal
By Brian Lockhart
Staff Writer Stamford Advocate
February 13, 2007
After last month’s arrest of a political activist at the governor’s inaugural parade, the co-chairmen of the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee are drafting bills that would require law enforcement to use greater care in assessing the potential threat posed by political dissidents.
State Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, and state Rep. Michael Lawlor, D-East Haven, will launch their effort tomorrow when the Judiciary Committee meets at 11 a.m. in Hartford.
“No one’s saying you can’t keep track of people on the (Internet) saying they’re trying to disrupt an event,” Lawlor said. “But you can’t just go and arrest people.”
On Jan. 3, Kenneth Krayeske, a political activist and blogger, was arrested after attempting to take pictures of Gov. M. Jodi Rell during the inaugural parade in Hartford. He was held on $75,000 bond and released that night, after Rell’s inaugural ball.
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007Useful WordPress Plugins
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Here’s the Word Press plugins that I’m currently using:
Category Tagging 2.3. It is easy to use. The one thing that confused me was how to change the date formatting and, number of posts displayed etc. You do it by editing category-tagging.php in you plugins folder. I’m using this plugin to display related posts from the past year within the single post pages.
For example if you go to this page, at the bottom of the post you will find a set of five random links to posts from the past year in the street art category. This is because I excluded the photo category from being used for the selection, and there are only photos and streetart in the categories for this post. If I hadn’t excluded the photo category, a much less related list would display. Reload the page and different posts come up.
Akismet 2.0 is a cooperative comment spam filtering system. I’ve been using it for about five days now and it hasn’t blocked any legitimate comments and has blocked over 670 spams. You are able to check the blocked items to reassure yourself there are not any genuine comments. It is working so well that I’ve been able to turn off moderation on the comments. If it does let a questionable comment through, it most likely will be in the moderation queue and then when you mark it as spam, it informs Akismet and presumedly it will be blocked from other users.
Get Recent Comments 1.5.4 This is what I am using to display the recent comments in the sidebar to the left.
The recent posts list on the left is a widget included with the Tiga-06 Word Press theme.
Incredible Machines
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Rube Goldberg type machines, mostly involving rolling marbles and an incredibly cloying tune in Japanese. Translation anyone?
Here’s another, and much more dangerous looking device.
Tony Bones and the Monster Looming Over the Neighborhood
Saturday, February 17th, 2007
