I ordered a copy of the Financial Times from my left-over US Air miles. Today, as usual, Richard Branson’s face in a Samsonite ad stares up at me from my doorstep. It is a mixed motivation to have my major competitor with over ten million in booked sales and tremendous media recognition start my day. It is an amazing standard to aspire to, but humbling at the same time. A big day of getting the word out for my site Space-Shot.com got easier when I saw on the front page of the second section: game company Xfire was purchased by Viacom for $102 million in cash. (The FT version is subscriber only.) Xfire has 4 million members spending 91 hours per month in advertiser supported game heaven. They earned less than $10 million in ad sales last year. The revenue and subscriber numbers are achievable for Space-Shot.com. Back to work.
Playing With Sock Puppets
“If they can
“I Hate Email”
al Zarqawi is guest blogging at Iowahawk’s place again, and as usual, he’s not happy.
“I Hate Email”
al Zarqawi is guest blogging at Iowahawk’s place again, and as usual, he’s not happy.
“I Hate Email”
al Zarqawi is guest blogging at Iowahawk’s place again, and as usual, he’s not happy.
The Tortoise And The Snail
So, China is going to wait another two and a half years before their next, and third human spaceflight. That makes it one flight every two and a half years. And we’re supposed to be worried about them denying us the moon?
Death Is Dying
This seems like good news:
This decline in death rates was so big it offset the increase in population, so the number of total deaths actually dropped by about 50,000 to 2,398,343 in 2004 from 2,448,288 recorded for 2003. Declines are rare — the last one was in 1997 — and this one was huge — the biggest decline in 6 decades.
We Need A Real War For Oil
That’s what Frank J. says, anyway.
Would it just be easier to drive a hybrid instead of having all this killing? No, it wouldn’t, because hybrids are gay. If our military can’t keep us from being forced to drive gay little cars, then what exactly are all these gasoline taxes going towards? You better not tell me poor people, because I did not get an SUV to help the poor. It should be obvious that our military must be deployed with the sole purpose of stealing all the oil worth getting our hands on. It is a risk of lives, but I risk lives everyday I drive my SUV anyway.
More On Space Access
Clark Lindsey has updated his Space Access Conference page with his reports from this past weekend. For those interested, this also has his reports from past years.
Something We All Really Knew
There is such a thing as a stupid question:
Saying that there are no stupid questions devalues the process of inquiry. Questions are the engines that power the growth of knowledge, and we cannot rely solely on a random interrogatory process. Although unstructured strategies such as brainstorming and free association have their uses, we need to balance them with a disciplined approach to questioning. Students must learn to expand on initial answers as they ask new questions.
I think that this subject relates to this one, at least remotely.
[Via Geek Press]