Astronomers measured the spinning speed of three black holes, finding that one rotates at a breakneck 950 times per second, nearing its theoretical rotation limit of 1,150 spins a second.

- Fox News [see full article]

I will be here until December 15; snow...yay! (j/k) And then it's back to the good old desert. I never gussed that I would miss "hot and dry" this much. I have been here for almost 2 weeks (wow) and yesterday is the first time the sun really came out (and then only periodically). It has rained and rained and rained and (need I go on?). Did I mention it's COLD and WET here?

Here's some photos of the campus:

See full story at Gateway Pundit.

Also see the Reutergate story.

You're blind if you don't see the main stream media bias in this country!

Declassified portions of an intelligence report being promoted by two U.S. lawmakers confirm reporting in 2004 by Cybercast News Service that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, including mustard gas, when his country was invaded by coalition forces. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) said the new report confirms that approximately 500 such weapons have been destroyed by the coalition since 2003 and that the U.S. and its allies are in a race against terrorist groups trying to control the remaining weapons.

- CNSNews.com

See full story.

Also see Hannity and Colmes video.

Also see declassified summary.

Not surprisingly, the WMD media blackout follows.

need you anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life

out of nothing. In other words, we can now do what you did in the

beginning'."

"Oh, is that so? Tell Me..." replies God.

"Well," says the scientist, "we can take dirt and form it into the

likeness of You and breathe life into it, thus creating man."

"Well, that's interesting ... show Me."

So the scientist bends down to the earth and starts to mold the soil.

"No, no, no..." interrupts God, "Get your own dirt."

When scientists heated a piece of brass with saw-tooth ridges — a thing that looks like a ratchet — water drops traveled quickly and in one direction: up.

[full story]

Also: See video of droplet in action!

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Some interesting pi facts:

• If one were to find the circumference of a circle the size of the known universe, requiring that the circumference be accurate to within the radius of one proton only 39 decimal places of Pi would be necessary.
• If a billion decimals of pi were printed in ordinary type, they would stretch from New York City, to the middle of Kansas.
• The Bible uses a value of Pi of 3. Here is a verse from I Kings 7:23: "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it about."
• In December 2002, computer scientists Kanada, Ushio and Kuroda computed pi to a world record 1,241,100,000,000 (more than one trillion) decimal digits, besting their previous world record of 206,158,430,000 digits, set in 1999. The computation consumed more than 600 hours of time of a Hitachi SR8000 supercomputer. [source]

Oh and it's also Albert Einstein's birthday. Funny how that works...

Well, nothing else terribly interesting to say. Break is going...well, it's going. Haven't got half the things I wanted to done yet, and it's already mid-week.

After 144 days without rain (since Oct 18), it has finally arrived! We put in our back yard landscaping last October, and the rocks (except where we have watered) have retained their original red dust. Consequentially, every time the dogs go outside, they come back in dirty.

Ahh...the smell of rain. I had almost forgotten what a sweet, airy pleasure it is...

This is part of our back yard. (For those wondering, this is actually -20% saturation). Check out my photoblog for upcoming macros!

Content, maybe?

I just bought another 250GB Seagate SATA hard drive (identical to my other 250GB), so now I have 660 gigabytes worth of SATA space in my desktop (which just passed it's 2nd birthday). You'd be surprised how much space photos (especially PSD files) occupy.

Scary.

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I did all of the CSS and back-end coding for the admin panel. WordPress is used to control the blog and add events to the calendar.

Most of you won't even care about the content of the site, but at least check out the calendar, which is automatically generated by my script and uses 100% CSS (no tables)!

I have only used it for several minutes, so don't take anything I say too seriously.

Things to like:

• A lot of things you see in browsers such as Firefox, Opera, and Safari: Tabs, search bar, etc. See note on "stolen!", below.
• Better support for CSS (correct rendering of websites)
• It will replace IE6!!!

• Has many good features of Firefox and Safari, but still lacking.
• CSS bugs.
• Disney-like, unprofessional interface?
• Installs over IE6, so no IE6 CSS debugging with IE7 installed.

Stolen!!

Why must we assume that just because a piece of software is from Microsoft, they stole it from somone else? Safari and Firefox both have tabbed browsing and customizable search bars up in the corner, but I don't hear anyone complaining about how they stole that from each other. (Not to mention Opera). Now i'm not saying either way (I don't read enough to even offer an opinion), but frankly, I don't care--just so it gets done. I am not a big fan of Microsoft, but I refuse to jump on the beat-up-Microsoft-cuz-it's-popular club. Not that you can beat up a multi-billion dollar software company, but I digress.

Overal Impressions/Closing Thoughts:

Firefox, while not perfect, is quite a broser. Safari ain't bad either, and Opera, Mozilla and Netscape aren't too far behind. So why does it take the world's largest software company to so long to output a still inferior product? I don't know.

Contrary to the popular myth, just because something is from Microsoft doesn't automatically make it a bad piece of software, it just means it has a fairly good chance of it. haha. So at least give it a chance.

Bottom Line: While better than 5-year-old IE6, IE7 still has a ways to go to catch up to Firefox and Safari. And even if it does, I won't be switching any time soon. Assuming CSS bugs are fixed in the final release, perhaps the biggest plus for me (as a web designer) as I am not going to use it myself, is that it will hopefully take over most of the market share of IE6 and making CSS for the masses infinitely easier, significantly cutting down on construction time as well as endless CSS headaches. Do I hear three cheers for full PNG support?!