A personal sat flies far above the land of the fee and the home of the knave
Something like the original PSA is finally making it aboard the ISS. It's pitched as a test of formation flying, rather than the more ambitious tron-like "Bit" role of a your softball sized space pal. There's tons of juvenile novels with a softball sized space pal in them: flatcats, tribbles... I guess "a test of formation flying" did a better job of getting past the ex-aviators in Congress. Regardless the microgravity manueverable probe looks like a damn useful device to have around the station. Maybe this will put a minor rest to the whole Man vs Machine debate that has been going on in space since some ambitious journalist invented it in the 60s. My answer to that has always been:
Resume,Songs,
My new blog, NeX-6, My facebook page
Orgs I like
The EFF - keeping free speech in the world
Musical stuff I like
Jeff, Rick, Ardour, Jack
Prior Rants -
New song: Log Off Now
Sharing your home network better in a time of covi...
Designing for the disconnect
Email lists going down the memory hole
Instituting saner, professional source code manage...
Wireless and Wifi in 2015 - not what I dreamed of
Saving wifi! Fixing Bufferbloat! Fighting the vend...
Virgin Media - Fixing the epidemic of bufferbloat ...
49... and trying to find my navel
Wheels down on mars!
Best of the blog:
Uncle Bill's Helicopter - A speech I gave to ITT Tech - Chicken soup for engineers
Beating the Brand - A pathological exploration of how branding makes it hard to think straight
Inside the Internet Mind - trying to map the weather within the global supercomputer that consists of humans and google
Sex In Politics - If politicians spent more time pounding the flesh rather than pressing it, it would be a better world
Getting resources from space - An alternative to blowing money on mars using NEAs.
On the Columbia - Why I care about space
Authors I like:
Doc Searls
Where's Cherie?
UrbanAgora
Jerry Pournelle
The Cubic Dog
Evan Hunt
The Bay Area is talking
Brizzled
Zimnoiac Emanations
Eric Raymond
Unlocking The Air
Bob Mage
BroadBand & Me
SpaceCraft
Selenian Boondocks
My Pencil
Transterrestial Musings
Bear Waller Hollar
Callahans