William M. Hartnett

Just sort of amazed by this.

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I won’t even ruin it for you by including a picture here. Just click on over to airliners.net to see it.

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> Speeding-Bullet Star Leaves Enormous Streak Across Sky (NASA)
(Via Knight Science Journalism Tracker)
Material being blown off the star Mira is leaving a cosmic wake 13 light-years long. I find this very exciting. And check out that amazing image. Whoa. Click here for a 6000 x 1500, 2.4 MB version. And check out the Galaxy [...]

Wow. How batshit are Mac fanboys? Totally batshit, that’s how batshit Mac fanboys are. (In the interest of full disclosure, I should note than I’m composing this post on my sweet Windows 3.1 box, but only because my Apple IIe is out of commission following an unfortunate Oregon Trail-related incident. So, you know, I keep [...]

Glad I was too lazy to actually install the updates, though I wish I had not wasted all that time downloading the stupid things. Via James Fee, where you should be going, anyway, if you actually need to keep up with this stuff.
UPDATE: Never mind, as you were, etc.

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Wow, 165 MB download. And 379 MB of help updates? WTF? This is going to take forever on the poky connection at work. Go get the update here, and, if you’re into that sort of thing, see the full list of issues addressed by the service pack here.

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… and immediately wonders what the heck to do with it. Mindy McAdams was offering, and, as I said there, I’m a complete sucker for anything with even a whiff, no matter how suspect, of scarcity or exclusivity about it. There was a time a few years ago, in fact, when I was prepared to [...]

I can’t stop watching some of these videos from Winding Road on YouTube. Not only do they feature stupidly fast cars, they also make liberal use of Futura, which, as you might not be aware, and I frankly can’t thing of any very good reason why you would, apart from, perhaps, the rather remote possibility [...]

Good question, Danny. Someone at work was having projection problems just the other day. Should have started them off with this. (Via the Virtual Earth/Live Maps blog)

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According to Mark Stephens, a.k.a Robert X. Cringely, “3G iPhones are AT THIS MOMENT being tested in Florida by AT&T.” O RLY? Better watch your back, alleged 3G iPhone testers somewhere in Florida, because I know people who WILL TACKLE YOU for that mofo. I’m just sayin’.

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