Well, maybe not the “comfort” of bed.  But I have been folling the blog of the Pillow Astronaut for a while now.  It is a blog from a research study participant on the “effects of weightlessness on the human body”.. and how they get that affect on Earth is to lay down with you’re body at -6 elevation .. head down.

Sadly, her research study was cut short as Hurricane Ike is aiming right for where the research facility is in Texas.  But the blog is still a very interesting read.. especially when when another research study participant, Sarcasmo, comments and posts.

You Like Me, You Really Like Me!

Off The Map must have been bored .. but not complaining since they ranked Earth Is Square at number 21.

First up is my new favorite blog to look through to kill time, Strange Maps.    There are maps shown on there that you just would not think of having or creating.  Kills a nice chunk of time when I start browsing through the archives.

workingDog has a first run release of a Ruber Band Selection Tool available for download and experimentation for WWJava.

The code allows various shapes to be drawn using the mouse. Shapes such as sector, circle, poylgon, polyline and a freehand shape. The idea is to use these shapes to encircle/select features of interest in worldwind. You can then process the selected features as you wish.

And last, but nowhere near the least, Pangloss has an update to the Worldwind.net Saturn add-on.  This update adds new maps and placenames for Enceladus and Tethys. You need to have Saturn 1.2 installed for 1.2a to work.

Boy, Godaddy sure is lightning fast at taking a domain off-line if a payment doesn’t go through.  But it is fixed now.

Well, just now passed 600 posts.  Next up is the big 1000 posts, post.

Not an April Fools.. I swear!

James Fee pointed me to a spam post on his blog.. and it is just too funny for words to express..

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