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Hubble Captures Best View of Mars Ever Obtained From Earth NASA's Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope took the picture on June 26, when Mars was approximately 43 million miles (68 million km) from Earth -- the closest Mars has ever been to Earth since 1988. Hubble can see details as small as 10 miles (16 km) across. The colors have been carefully balanced to give a realistic view of Mars' hues as they might appear through a telescope.
... The page has links to lower quality (small files) and higher quality (large files) images of Hubble picture of Mars. Be there in 2003! thanks to Netsurfer Digest
Tour de France It was a sprint stage today and Lance maintained his position at 15th, 1 minute 53 seconds back. Tomorrow they start some climbing but Stage 10, Tuesday, will be the mother of climbs - Aix-les-Bains / L'Alpe d'Huez. That's where Lance will make or break.
My links have been way to serious lately. A page of amusing pictures and a Morse code translator! .... . .-.. .-.. --- / .-- --- .-. .-.. -.. And it translates Morse code (like above) to text. Is this cool or what? Probably what. Best of all - This page cannot be displayed There, I feel better know.
all links thanks to Weblog Wannabe
The Monopoly Has Just Begun
Thanks to Scripting News
Tour de france - Team time trial today and Lance Armstong's team had two riders fall and only took 4th leaving Lance 1:53 behind. Not good but that can be made up on the mountain stages. If Lance is strong.
Craig at BookNotes had a good link day.
George Bush is clearly not up to the job The title says it pretty well.
The Anti-Bush Majority The corporate-owned media also has been working extra hard to avoid the subject. Only the briefest coverage was given to the June Civil Rights Commission report on the election, which found, among other voting disasters, that black voters' ballots were 10 times more likely to be thrown out than those of white voters. Log onto the Web, though, and type "anti-Bush," and you will be faced with a different vision of American public opinion. There are now approximately 800 sites whose mission is to analyze, attack and especially ridicule the 43rd president of the United States. Anti-Bush Web sites may not be visited by all the Americans of the Fox News poll, but they do show the Internet has become home to the largest, most underreported political coalition in the United States -- what I call the anti-Bushies. The article lists many anti-bush sites. Of course there is no shortage of material.
Library "radicals" targeted in latest copyright battles In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains simply for doing their job: letting people borrow books for free. But I save the best for last.
Global Warming Much Worse Than Predicted, Say Scientists The report, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of several hundred of the world's most distinguished meteorologists, including many Americans, is a substantial slap in the face for US President George Bush, whose unilateral abrogation of Kyoto has thrown the international effort to counter global warming into chaos. It comes on the eve of first big meeting, held in Bonn next week, to try to repair the treaty. The president cited doubts about the science of climate change as the reason why he would not impose on the American economy the cuts in industrial gases which Kyoto requires – and which the US signed up to at the original treaty agreement in 1997. But yesterday the IPCC scientists gave their unqualified support to the view that global warming is real. Furthermore, they said, since their last report was published six years ago, they found they had vastly underestimated the rate at which global temperatures are rising. They now believe they will rise by as much as 5.8C by the end of this century, almost twice the increase predicted in their 1995 report. This is likely to lead to crop failures, water shortages, increased disease and disasters for towns and cities from flooding, landslides and sea storm surges, they believe, with the poor developing countries likely to be hit hardest. The crucial point that emerges from the report is that all these new stresses may be happening at the same time to a world already under great stain from massive population growth, poverty and pollution. Summaries of these reports are available. Summaries for Policymakers and Technical Summaries are available for free in PDF format. Read what Bush and company don't want to believe. "The president cited doubts about the science of climate change." Come on! You want data? Read these summaries. The sad thing is that "George Bush is clearly not up to the job" (see above.)
I cleared a memory card on my Olympus before taking some product photographs for Ace Leather Goods and found this picture taken after Monday's TestingTesting.
 What the Coale brothers do best. Mark and Lianne left this morning to return to San Jose. They spent the last couple of days at the Honeymoon Lake Motel. No TV so they watched the tide go in and out. We please easy around here. Lance Armstrong is 27 seconds back and in 7th place after 4 stages of the Tour de France. 27 seconds behind the leader who is at 19 hours 32 minutes and 49 seconds.
Work work work work work work. Derek's words at the opening of the show when Rick asked about the format of the show: "The format? Actually, we've come to listen and maybe tinker along if we can. The format is very loose. It's exactly what it is - in the living room." And at the end of the show you can hear Derek again: " That's what we do. I mean, that's actually the essence of it: goofing off." Well, it was some great goofing off! Hot sport news! Lance Armstrong is 7th, 21 seconds back after 3 stages of the Tour de France. Only 18 stages left. And some little mountains.
A day of fighting fires and catching up on e-mail. Lots of work that needs to be done that I didn't get to. Work that pays bills. At least TestingTesting is ready to go. Just need to finish making bread and set up the microphones. Mark will be here to see his first TT and there are rumors that my sister Madelane and her son Cameron may finally make it over for their first live in-person TT.
When I returned from leaving Robby and Robyn at the airport there was a message to call Mark. I called him Friday and it turned out to be my brother Mark that I hadn't seen for 5 years. He had moved to California and we hadn't had much contact with him in that time.
 He, and his partner Liane, spent the afternoon with Zoe and I today (Sunday) (bonus - Katie and Michael were here too). It's good to renew family relationships that have faded and to promise not to let them lapse again.
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