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NASA
battles buzz from disaster movie
April 28, 2004
By Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times News Service
Published April 28, 2004

“‘Urgent: HQ Direction,’ began a message e-mailed on April 1 to dozens
of scientists and officials at the Goddard Space Flight Center of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration in Greenbelt, Md.

Great…now all the environuts will be foaming at the mouth. I’m all about protecting
the environment, but I don’t think things are nearly as bad as they have been made
out to be (check out The
Skeptical Environmentalist)

Red Stapler of Doom

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Yay Office Space!!!

Studios
Rush to Cash In on DVD Boom
By SHARON WAXMAN
Published: April 20, 2004

“LOS ANGELES, April 19 – The other day the chairman of 20th Century Fox, Jim
Gianopulos, said he got a call from a lawyer friend. The friend said it was an anniversary
of the firm and asked where he could get 100 DVD copies of the cult Fox movie ‘Office
Space.’ The film made only $10 million at the box office but has become a hit
on DVD. No one at Fox pretends to know why, but the film’s success is another big
drop in the river of DVD cash now flowing into Hollywood’s coffers.”

I Don’t Know That!…Aaaaaaaaaaaah….

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“Too much time on my hands” – Styx

Estimating the Airspeed
Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms.
by Jonathan Corum

“After spending some time last month trying to develop alternate graphic presentations
for kinematic ratios in winged flight, I decided to try to answer one of the timeless
questions of science: just what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”