Mission Control: The New Year is approaching fast! Landing is targeted for 00:00 am Sunday, weather permitting.
Eagle: OK, Houston we copy that. We’ll be a wave off for the next couple of days. See you on the other side.
Mission Control: Roger, copy contact.
Eagle: Awop-bop-a-loo-mop alop bam boom!

5 New Year’s Resolutions: 1. Make my […]

Although the MIT’s OCW project is active since 1999 I just learned about it yesterday from an article in the last issue of the siam news.
OCW’s goals are to (from OCW’s website):

Provide free, searchable, access to MIT’s course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and […]

It was evident from the start that Intelligent Design was doomed to the fate of Creationism; being a religious doctrine it would be a gross abnormality to consider it as ‘science’ and to teach it as such. Four days ago, the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial came to its conclusion and Judge Jones, in his 139-page […]

Melinda Gates, Bono and Bill Gates were named “Persons of the Year” by TIME magazine “for being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow”.
Bono: “When an Irish rock star starts talking about it, people go, ‘Yeah, […]

The Political affairs committee of the Council of Europe adopted (14/12/05) “a draft resolution and a draft recommendation on the “Need for international condemnation of the crimes of totalitarian communist regimes”. The text, prepared par Göran Lindblad (Sweden, EPP/CD), strongly condemns the massive human rights violations committed by these regimes and expresses “sympathy, understanding […]

Did you know that you could use Mindjet’s MindManager as a news reader? I’ve been using MindMaps for some time now, but I just found out about it today.
I cannot say that I’m completely satisfied with its performance (it does not recognize some of the feeds I tried) but it has much potential – they […]

With the midterm elections approaching and Bush’s approval ratings hitting new lows every day, the US Senate blocked the renewal of the Patriot Act and the President was forced to sign into law a ban on torture. This is not just a victory for civil liberties and freedom, but a showcase of how an […]

Although I could never agree with many of his political views, I was always fascinated by Allen Ginsberg’s work, and ‘Howl’ still remains one of my favorite poems. He is certainly one of the masters of the 20th century.
The Allen Ginsberg Trust website features a number of his poems, some of his sketches, as well […]