Month: <span>June 2001</span>

If you like tall ships, David Rogers has a picture for you.
8:04:55 PM  

ESA: Hint of planet-sized drifters bewilders Hubble scientists. “Piercing the heart of a globular star cluster with its needle-sharp vision, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered tantalising clues to what could potentially be a strange and unexpected population of wandering, planet-sized objects.”
6:03:15 PM  

CNN: Once mighty Rio Grande now a trickle. “Once a navigable waterway that swelled under bridges and made fertile an otherwise dry coastal plain, the river becomes a mere trickle before it gets to the Gulf of Mexico, disappearing about 300 feet short of its destination in a big expanse of sand.”
6:02:42 PM  

ZDNN: Microsoft faces second patent claim. “Microsoft has been busy trying to lure big-name record companies with its multimedia plans, telling them its Windows Media Player contains strong anti-piracy features. However, the InterTrust suit could dampen those plans if a court rules against Microsoft and forces it to disable some parts of its digital rights technology.” [via Tomalak’s Realm]
3:28:23 PM  

BBC: Strange glows on Jupiter moon. Red and blue dancing glows were seen on Jupiter’s moon Io during a recent flyby.
3:22:52 PM  

The Register: MS to blow imaginary $1bn on hyping WinXP to stardom. “You see, dear reader, this sort of money is not real; you could maybe refer to it as fluffybucks.”
3:19:30 PM  

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Wait a minute… What are those CalTech people doing with that four-ton obelisk?
11:43:50 PM  

George Hupka has a list of the worst Country song titles: everything from “All My Exes Live In Texas” to “You’re The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly”.
8:04:57 PM  

Three new Themes for Manila sites: Slab-Red, Slab-Green and Slab-Blue.
4:28:05 PM  

Wired: San Angelo, Texas: Home of Spies. “Spies flock to this West Texas town like flies. They train here, they spy here, they retire here, they die here. Of course, nobody will tell you that, officially.”
3:03:37 PM  

This confuses me.
2:58:41 PM  

AAJA: F***king Headlines: News organizations struggle with expletive in popular Web site’s name. [via Hack the Planet]
2:57:17 PM  

Anna Quindlen: Playing God On No Sleep. “But between the women who cannot have children and sometimes stare at our double strollers grief-stricken, and the grandmothers who make raising eight or 10 sound like a snap and insist we micromanage and overanalyze, there is no leave to talk about the dark side of being a surrogate deity, omniscient and out of milk all at the same time.”
2:50:30 PM  

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