That’s right, the Communist Red Planet is closer to Earth now than it has been in the past 60,000 years. Look for the bright red thing in the east after sunset. ( I really should buy a telescope one of these days. )
The Astronomy Picture of the Day has plenty of information and linkification. If you want to know exactly when sunset is tonight, you could consult the US Naval Observatory’s website.
Month: August 2003
Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters!
Mappiness is a warm Perl script
Chris has started hacking out a map-based picture browser ..
very nifty. Who knew there were perl modules out there that will put dots on a
map for you? 🙂
See also:
It’s official ..
Google is now also the niftiest calculator in the world … see other more or less useful examples on waxy.org and kottke.org.
the linkbin
I just added a linkbin to the sidebar. It started as a way to store bookmarks
on my server. I made a perl cgi script that takes a url and adds it to a file.
Then I took one of the many javascript bookmarklets out there and hacked it to
pass the url of the current page to my perl script. That same perl script will
also display all the links you saved in the file, (and if you click the linklet
on an empty page, it will go to this display page). This morning, I threw the
link-displaying code into a blosxom plugin, and now you get to see ’em too.
If you’re interested, you can have at the source
Note: the usage of “bin” in the term linkbin should not imply the links it contains are rubbish. 😉