Thursday, August 4, 2005

Paper planes!

Via allTheHeroesAreDead.com!: Paper planes (flash based demo to create various paper planes).

e.p.c. posted this at 09:22 GMT on 4-Aug-2005 .

Shuttle to nowhere

Interesting essay on the Space Shuttle program and its value (or lack thereof) to space exploration: Idle Words. I liked this quote, from the footnotes, commenting on the Soviet Union's Buran clone of the Space Shuttle: You know you're in trouble when the Russians are adding safety features to your design.

e.p.c. posted this at 19:13 GMT on 4-Aug-2005 .

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Spent five years running the technology side of the circus known as www.ibm.com.

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