Irritable male syndrome

Irritable male syndrome.

Ill-behaved children will be cooked and served for breakfast

Ill-behaved children will be cooked and served for breakfast.

Free webcast: top 10 Windows vulnerabilities and how to fix them

Free webcast: top 10 Windows vulnerabilities and how to fix them.

A linguistics weblog and more like that

A linguistics weblog and more like that.

Surprisingly accurate Simpsons top 25 from EW

Surprisingly accurate Simpsons top 25 from EW.

craft a perfect 3 to access a blog building

craft a perfect 3 to access a blog building.

We can read about this place at home

Those wacky cats are at it again. This time, Gilpin & Marigold Explore The Wonders Of Wakayama Prefecture:

In traveling you can be a tourist or you can be a guest. Do not look at travel books. We can read about this place at home. Instead let’s walk to Negoroji Temple, which I think is not too far in that direction. Not lost, just far away from our old lives.”

Kevin was kind enough to let me design the title card for this installment. Enjoy more of Gilpin and Marigold here.

Still in the experimental and transitional phase

From The Influence of the Internet on Literature:

It took a whole century for the printed book to develop a form of its own that was no longer dominated by the aesthetic traditions of the medieval manuscript. It was in the 16th century Italy that the format of the printed book emerged from the experimental and transitional phase and found a basic stability of form that lasted for the next three centuries. By the end of the 19th century the old manual processes had been replaced by mechanical production with power-driven machinery. (Chaytor, Clancy, Spender, Eisenstein, Butler) It has taken just three years, since the release of Netscape, for tens of millions of people to become involved with the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web may never develop a distinct form, but will continually reinvent itself.

Space Shuttle lost

Update: Nixlog has a growing collection of infographics and interactive graphics related to the crash.

Update: some eyewitness photos (hard to get good photos at that distance…)

Update: Timeline of Columbia’s last mission (another timeline).

Update: “Nick has access to orbital data for various satellites and other objects. He and Chris started looking at the data before it got locked up, and it appears that Columbia pulled up around 3 am, and continued to erratically change its path.” (Juby)

Update: video of NASA TV broadcast when NASA lost contact with Columbia. Video of NASA trying to reestablish communication with Columbia.

Update: a radar image of Shuttle debris over Texas.

Update: NASA says a piece of foam that impacted the left side of the shuttle on takeoff may be to blame, but unlikely. I mean, how much damage can a piece of foam do? I guess we’ll know more when we get a look at what that foam actually looks like.

From NASA:

A Space Shuttle contingency has been declared in Mission Control, Houston, as a result of the loss of communication with the Space Shuttle Columbia at approximately 9 a.m. EST Saturday as it descended toward a landing at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. It was scheduled to touchdown at 9:16 a.m. EST.

Communication and tracking of the shuttle was lost at 9 a.m. EST at an altitude of about 203,000 feet in the area above north central Texas. At the time communications were lost. The shuttle was traveling approximately 12,500 miles per hour (Mach 18). No communication and tracking information were received in Mission Control after that time.