Daily Archives: September 1st, 2005

The View from Husband Hill

September 1, 2005 – 9:42 pm

A QuickTime movie in ‘true’ color made from a panorama stitched together from images taken by the Spirit Rover atop Husband Hill in Gusev Crater, Mars.
Thanks Cornell, JPL, and NASA. You helped cheer me up.

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Don’t Be evil, unless it is necessary for the greater good.

September 1, 2005 – 1:07 am

The Onion follows where Paul Ford went back in 2002.
As a part of Purge’s first phase, executives will destroy all copyrighted materials that cannot be searched by Google.

This reminds me of a bit in Ian M. Banks’ Use of Weapons, where an invading power has been asked to spare a conquered world’s electronic archive. The [...]

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Goodbye and Thanks, Kepler’s

September 1, 2005 – 12:39 am

[ via Cynthia, who told me that Rika posted about it. ] After over 50 years of selling books on the Peninsula, Clark Kepler has decided to close his store.
That leaves Books Inc., who took over the space used by Printers, Inc. store in downtown Mountain View, as the only independent new bookseller in the [...]

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