The BBC has an article discussing some photographs of Mars that scientists say are evidence of flowing water on Mars. There’s also a Slashdot discussion. Strangely, this news is nearly three years old, but I sure don’t recall hearing about it. See higher-resolution pictures here.
Archive for March, 2003
14 MarFlowing Water on Mars!?
13 MarVirginia Tech Gone Mad
The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that Virginia Tech’s Governing Board has voted to 1) bar advocates of extreme political views from speaking on the campus. Under the new policy, student groups must seek the president’s approval if they wish to invite speakers who support or take part in activities that could be construed as “domestic violence or terrorism.” and 2) change the university’s antidiscrimination clause so that it no longer prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Where to begin?
13 MarJupiter’s Great Dark Spot
That’s no typo. Apparently Jupiter has a Great Dark Spot near its north pole that is larger than its more famous Great Red Spot (where “larger” means twice the size of Earth-kinda-big!) It turns out that this spot is more ephemeral. Check it out at NASA where you will also find some amazing images. There’s also a Slashdot discussion of this.
12 MarRepublicans Hate France
Ummm… This is so stupid I thought it was a parody site and not really CNN when I first saw it. I’m afraid it’s real.
11 MarPhilosophy Sites by Me
I wanted to see what happens when I post under a category other than General, so this is a post within the category: Philosophy. I’ve been operating two sites devoted to philosophers for several years now. The first is Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and the second is Gottlob Frege (1848-1925). Check ‘em out. [Updated links 12/05/03]
11 MarSite Design
Wow. So, I’ve realized now that the vast majority of the customization of a blog will require actual HTML hackin. I really thought that these programs had it all dummy-proof and you could just point and click your way to super-bloggin’ stardom. Hmmm. Interesting. I sort of like it better this way.
11 MarLinks (Again)
Surprised that Google was no help. I finally just decided that it must be in the template somewhere, and sure enough it is. So now I have links. I am even more surprised that bloggers are expected to know a little HTML to include links. This is for the slightly more web-savvy than I imagined. I had gotten the apparently mistaken impression that even people’s grandmothers were bloggin’ now. Maybe they are…and they know HTML!
11 MarLinks
The page is looking better with more text on it, but I still need a bit more. I suppose I can rant here for a second about not having any idea how to change the links listed on (hopefully) the bottom right of this page. With less text they get listed on the bottom left, even though their header made it to the right side. Yuck! Perhaps a quick Google search will turn up the answer. Be right back.
11 MarTesting StyleSheets
So, I get the feeling that this page will look a lot better if I fill it up with some text. With just a single entry, the bottom of the page looks horrible. If I can find the time, I may just take up this blogging thing. It’s a weird idea, no? You type to no one in particular and to everyone in the world at the same time, putting on public display whatever is on your mind. Truly, the ability of the individual to communicate with and connect to other individuals separated by great distance, age, culture, and class seems possibly bridged through this medium. Journalism returns to its roots: Everyone is a pamphleteer. Wonder if this thing will ever get a built in spell-checker? Let’s see how the page looks now…
10 MarFirst Post!
Hello world.