16. September, 2003 - site notes, baseball, science
- If you’re paying attention, you may have noticed something new on the site. I’m not entirely happy with the layout I’ve got, but it’s the least hideous way of putting it on the site I could come up with. And I know it’s a web bug and I don’t especially like those, but dangit, I’m gonna see if I can maybe make a little money off the effort I put into the site. So if you do see something that interests you there in the lower right, go ahead and click it. It probably won’t earn me very much, but I think it’s worth trying. Some of them are tailored very well to the page they appear on, so there’s at least a slim chance there might be something worthwhile there.
- While I was futzing with the site yesterday, I updated the list of Dave’s Random Essays to include the things I’ve written this year. Yeah, sometimes it takes a while before I get around to the maintenance around here. No new content there, I just made things a little easier to find, I hope.
- Cosh talks about the self-inflicted black eye for baseball that is the Montréal Expos. He’s got good points, and it’s yet another one of the things that’s happened under commmissioner Bud Selig’s tenure that’s made me less than enthusiastic about supporting MLB. [colby cosh]
- The Hardest Stuff in baseball? Fastballs above 100mph are right up there.
- NASA to smash Galileo probe into Jupiter because it’s almost out of fuel and almost certainly contaminated with microbes from Earth. Rather than have it smack into Europa accidentally, they’re going to drop it into Jupiter instead. More information available at the project home pages. [strib]
- Bloomington resident to attempt record rocket launch in Nevada desert. Ky Michaelson’s trying to be the first amateur to get a rocket above 62 miles up. [strib]
- How Much is Inside a Sharpie? Well, go read the story. And then be glad someone else did the experiment, because it’d take you a while. [boing boing]
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Last updated on Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:49:06.