Another photography site I like is <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=422&entry_id=73" title="http://www.sensitivelight.com" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.sensitivelight.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Sensitive Light</a>, the photography portfolio of Graham Jeffery. Mr. Jeffery is a photographer in the U.K., whose hobby grew into a post-retirement, part-time business.<br /> <br /> His photography covers a wide range of subjects, from landscapes, birds and insects to people, carnivals [...]
Popular Linux Distributions (versions) for Home Use
June 8, 2005 By Leave a Comment
There are a huge number of Linux "distributions" — that is, customized packaging of the various programs that actually make up the Linux kernel along with many other programs designed to run with Linux. <br /> <br /> Oops, there I used the buzz-word "kernel." What's a kernel? You hear the term, occasionally, even with [...]
BBC 7 and The Goon Show
June 7, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Last week, I was searching the Internet for information on one of my old-time favorite radio comedy shows <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=298&entry_id=71" title="http://www.thegoonshow.net" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.thegoonshow.net';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">The Goon Show</a>. This show was broadcast in the mid-to-late 1950's on BBC Radio, and starred Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe.<br /> <br /> After finding several sites that [...]
The Original Radio Dramas: Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi
June 6, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Back in 1981, <i>Star Wars – The Original Radio Drama</i> was broadcast on <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=291&entry_id=70" title="http://www.npr.org" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.npr.org';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">National Public Radio</a>, locally in Baton Rouge on WRKF. I was lucky. I used to listen to NPR's Morning Edition and heard a promo for it one morning — wow, I couldn't wait. <br /> <br [...]
Online Flash Games
June 5, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I found these two Flash games recently. If you don't already have Macromedia's Flash plug-in for your web browser, you will need to install it.<br /> <br /> First, a fun batting game called <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=281&entry_id=69" title="http://www.ndtoday.com/games/files/penguinswing.swf" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.ndtoday.com/games/files/penguinswing.swf';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Penguin Swing</a>. My record is 301.7 (feet, meters, whatever!).<br /> <br /> Or, if you [...]
Astronomical Images and The Hubble
June 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
One of my favorite sites to visit is the <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=468&entry_id=68" title="http://heritage.stsci.edu/" onmouseover="window.status='http://heritage.stsci.edu/';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Hubble Heritage Project</a> at the <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=469&entry_id=68" title="http://www.stsci.edu" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.stsci.edu';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Space Telescope Science Institute</a>. <br /> <br /> I usually jump straight to the <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=470&entry_id=68" title="http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.html" onmouseover="window.status='http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.html';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Hubble Heritage Image Gallery</a> to "ooh and ahh" over [...]
Libraries are a good thing
June 3, 2005 By Leave a Comment
If you haven't been by in a long time, years maybe, check out your local library again.<br /> <br /> When I was growing up, I used to go one of the Memphis libraries every week. Later, when I lived in Houston, I was significantly under-impressed with the Houston library system. After I moved to [...]
I want a Light Saber
June 2, 2005 By Leave a Comment
The Light Saber – symbol of Star Wars. Maybe. But Star Wars wasn't the origin of the idea, just the most famous.<br /> <br /> I've wanted a light saber ever since reading the novel <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=551&entry_id=66" title="http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/astounding_1969.htm" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/astounding_1969.htm';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Wolfling</a> by science fiction writer Gordon R. Dickson in Analog Magazine. <u>Wolfling</u> was the [...]
Star Wars – How Light Sabers Work
June 1, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Everybody's getting into the Star Wars act. The latest, or at least I just found it, is an article on how light sabers work. Very well done, but spread across a number of short pages.<br /> <br /> To see <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=254&entry_id=65" title="http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm" onmouseover="window.status='http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">How Light Sabers Work</a>, visit http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm.<br /> <br /> [...]