Welcome home Discovery

Welcome home, Discovery. You made us proud.

STS-133 was the 39th and final flight for OV-103 Discovery, which spent 365 days in space, orbited Earth 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 miles. She is the oldest of the remaining shuttle fleet, holds the record for highest altitude for a space shuttle, and was the shuttle launched for every return to flight from a shuttle accident.

Discovery carried the following major payloads to orbit during her career: TDRS 3, 4 and 7, Hubble, Ulysses, the Z1 truss, Harmony node, Kibo lab, S6 tuss, PMM node and serviced Hubble twice.

NASA - The Frontier Is Everywhere

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Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Software Now Un-patentable In New Zealand

Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Software Now Un-patentable In New Zealand. New Zealand, I am SO proud of you. I am glad that someone finally realized just how stupid software patents really are.

Good job!

YouTube - Sesame Street: Martians Radio

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YouTube - Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four

Check this out: YouTube - Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four -- this is one of the neatest visualization of statistics I've seen in a very long time.

The Minecraft Experiment

I recently started playing Minecraft (and mistakenly hooked my sons on it too-Doh!) and I've been following the community off and on as it goes. I read The Minecraft experiment, day 9 and completely laughed myself to tears.

Read the whole series if you like this one. It's a riot.