Time travel

In my endless pursuit of perfecting procrastination, I came across these two sites.

First: A blast from the past I was reading about the Internet Archive... cool stuff. I decided to look up the history of Google. Check out the OLD (Oct 2000) versus the NEW (June 2005) . Note the number of pages indexed... Google sure has come a long way.

Second: A view of the future It's been a long time since I browsed the Onion. This site is great for a couple of laughs. I especially like the headlines: "Butt-Fuck Sluts Go Wild wins daytime Emmy", "Fat Brittany chosen for holo-stamp",...
And for an interesting poke at the current US administration, read this. Kind of puts some things in perspective.

surfs up

cash cow or ...?

So, I read something like this
"Compared to current technology, Nanomech storage devices offer 200 times better write performance while consuming 50 to 100 times less power." article
and I think to myself "Wow! Wouldn't it kick-ass to get in on this action early and make a fortune!"

Problem is, I'm sure there's more to smart investing than picking companies that have cool ideas/technologies. Anyways, cool technology bit.

In other news, Deep Impact is coming up on July 4. No... I'm not talking about all those crazy southerners blowing up part of their lawn with Independence day fireworks! At approximately 2am EST on July 4, the Deep Impact mission will attain it's primary objective, which is to smash a payload into comet Tempel 1 at a speed of 23,000 miles/hr and record the resulting explosion. Below is a picture of the comet taken a few days ago.

The scale on the picture is approximately 100,000 miles across. Pretty huge!