Andrew, Pete Knight certainly deserves to be recognized as a pilot and a space pioneer, but he was also a very controversial political figure in California. He was the driving force behind the legislation to keep gay marriage illegal (the law that the San Francisco mayor was flouting earlier this year), and he was regularly denounced by the left as a rabid right-wing homophobe (I don’t know to what degree that’s true, but considering the sources of much of the criticism, I’m inclined to think that he wasn’t as much of a neanderthal as his political enemies made him out to be).
Let slip the surly bonds…
Via RLV News, Pete Knight, X-15 pilot, has died.
CD Rot
It’s not really new, but it’s good to see the fragility of CDs getting some press. One of the ironies of the information age is that information is being lost at a rate unprecedented in human history. A lot of that is pointless BS like my undergrad history papers, but a depressing amount of it is potentially useful technical material and historical primary sources. It’d be nice to have a really good high density long term data archive format. Currently the best we can do with any certainty that it will still be accessible in a hundred years or more is high quality acid-free paper.
An Empty Seat At The Friar’s Club
Fox News is reporting that Alan King, the King of comedy, has died. The Borscht Belt just greatly expanded its borders.
[Update on Tuesday, May 11th]
Alan Henderson has some additional commentary.
An Empty Seat At The Friar’s Club
Fox News is reporting that Alan King, the King of comedy, has died. The Borscht Belt just greatly expanded its borders.
[Update on Tuesday, May 11th]
Alan Henderson has some additional commentary.
An Empty Seat At The Friar’s Club
Fox News is reporting that Alan King, the King of comedy, has died. The Borscht Belt just greatly expanded its borders.
[Update on Tuesday, May 11th]
Alan Henderson has some additional commentary.
Re: Spacearium
Good Thing Europe Doesn’t Have Any Electoral Votes
Hot off the press, the New York Times says that Europeans don’t like Bush very much. Frankly, reading this article just makes me even more inclined to vote for him, just to cheese them off.
Good Thing Europe Doesn’t Have Any Electoral Votes
Hot off the press, the New York Times says that Europeans don’t like Bush very much. Frankly, reading this article just makes me even more inclined to vote for him, just to cheese them off.
Good Thing Europe Doesn’t Have Any Electoral Votes
Hot off the press, the New York Times says that Europeans don’t like Bush very much. Frankly, reading this article just makes me even more inclined to vote for him, just to cheese them off.