15. September, 2000 - Geek-a-rific!

• Fred Sanchez gave a talk on The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments at USENIX this year. It's pretty good.
• Grady Ward's Moby is a public domain source of hyphenation, word lists from five languages, parts of speech, pronunciation, Thesaurus, etc. Pretty useful if you need it.
• Feh! Barnes&Noble To Buy Fatbrain. I've been shopping fatbrain since they were Computer Literacy. And they were a very good store. Now that they've been swalled by a corporate giant, I expect I'll be moving along to some other small technical bookseller. Maybe Stacey's or Powell's will fill the void, but I suspect I'll end up using Best Book Buys and just not being loyal to any one bookseller.
• Heavens-Above provides you with the information you need to watch satellites, Mir, the International Space Station, the Shuttle and other astronomical objects. The SatEvo Page has satellite tracking, but adds predictions of satellites whose orbits are decaying.
• The Army Corps of Engineers provides information the water flow at St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam on the web. Cool. They have other records related to the river all accessible from this one confusing form.

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