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Sunday, July 8, 2001

Radar Map of Victoria

This three-frequency spaceborne radar image shows the southern end of Vancouver Island on the west coast of Canada. The white area in the lower right is the city of Victoria, the capital of the province of British Columbia. The three radar frequencies help to distinguish different land use patterns. The bright pink areas are suburban regions, the brownish areas are forested regions, and blue areas are agricultural fields or forest clear- cuts. Founded in 1843 as a fur trading post, Victoria has grown to become one of western Canadas largest commercial centers. In the upper right is San Juan Island, in the state of Washington. The Canada/U.S. border runs through Haro Strait, on the right side of the image, between San Juan Island and Vancouver Island.
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev16/ev1610_PIA01830_md.jpg

Curve Working With Republica!

Dean and I are presently working on some material with Saffron from Republica, its all very poptastic and sleazy just like we like it.
http://www.curve.co.uk/news.htm

Interesting New Celestial Object Found

There are many kinds of celestial objects in the Universe but we are far from knowing them all. XMM-Newton may have discovered a new one: a very luminous soft X-ray source that is pulsating extremely rapidly in the central region of the Andromeda galaxy. This unusual object could be a new kind of accreting white dwarf.
http://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=1&cid=1&oid=27568

Brain Ballon!

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20010704/us/mensa_brain_balloon_txks103.html

Atari Lives!

The original king of the consoles is 24 years old, boasts clunky graphics and dinky sounds, yet is still doing quite nicely, thank you.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/09/atari/index.html

Thursday, July 5, 2001

Good Sugano Sensei Interview

Sugano Sensei taught at the 2000 summer camp, which I attended. Excellent instructor.
http://www.aikidoonline.com/feat_0601_sug.html

Strange Glowing Lights on Io

Strange glows have been seen dancing over Jupiters moon Io. They were recorded during an eclipse of Io in January, witnessed by the Cassini spacecraft that was on its way to Saturn.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1409000/1409117.stm