Oh! The November 7th impact was a false trail, but while investigating it, Hoagland’s Enterprise Mission has uncovered something even worse: Egypt Air 990 was “killed” in a deliberate act. The symbolic aspects of this ritual murder all point to an “Armageddon problem.” Who’d’ve guessed?

More John Shipman writing on Pocket Protectors and what goes in them.

A friend of mine from college was quoted in this NY Times article about pocket protectors. I miss hanging out with John… he’s quite a guy, with more stories than about anyone I know.

Not that I’m a staunch pro-Microsoft fellow or anything, but I was happy to see this: a well written essay explaining why the Judge’s Finding of Fact is wrong. Written by Jerry Pournelle, a long-time writer with Byte magazine.

Recently discovered Comet Linear may produce a “suprise” meteor shower Thursday evening. Most meteor showers are caused by the earth passing through the path of a comet, and comet Linear passed by just 40 days ago. By the way, Comet Linear was discovered by a telescope in Socorro, NM (home of my alma mater) searching for near-earth asteroids .

My company got DSL today. The days of all of us sharing a 56kbs dial-up connection are over!

Just a reminder: according to Richard Hoagland (the face on Mars guy), three objects will strike the Earth tomorrow. He states that “everything south of the Chesapeake is toast.” That includes me, I’m afraid, so there may not be any updates for a while. It depends on how high the splash wave is…

I’ll be away from the computer for most of the day.

Linux got me kicked out of Wal*Mart details the story of a laptop running linux, a quick-cam, and movies filmed at a Wal-mart. The movies themselves aren’t that exciting (unless, perhaps, you’re a Wal-mart junkie), but technical know-how that went into it and the run-in with the security guard make a good story.

Bob the Angry Flower shows us that L.A. has the worst godzilla selection in North America. I used to read this every week, but hadn’t been by in months. Looks like I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.