Pendell

The New Space Age (putting it all together)

1. Spaceport America: under construction in New Mexico

2. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo unveiled in December

3. Space Adventures - zero-g experience for $5,000

4. Planetary Society launching it's first Solar Sail test this year

5. Moon 2.0: Google Lunar X Prize

6. Gliese 581 c - Exoplanet with liquid water

Space Tourists

+ The Ape That Does Grow Up

+ Gene Testing For The Masses

+ Obama Will (Hopefully) Privatize Manned Launches

+ The Scale of the Universe

Currently Reading: Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man by Jonathan D. Spence

+ Rumors are Google is releasing a new netbook this year (possibly free?) and Apple is releasing an iTablet possibly as soon as January. Add augmented reality and say so long to 'desktop' computers!

+ The Energy Frontier: Natural Gas... Smart Grids... Solar-Coal Plants... Grass-based Ethanol... Lithium Cars

+ The editorial control of search engines--whoever controls the algorithm, controls millions of people's decisions. Can you imagine a day when a search engine will promote itself as 'just objective search, without all the bias'?

+ China's DIY Aviators

Flower ~ FlOw ~ Cloud

I've been fascinated by this game company for a while now.

Try out a web version of FlOw!

Enter 2010

+ 100 Best Innovations of 2009 - And you probably haven't heard of any of them!

+ The stupidity continues: After AT&T told the FCC last year that the public doesn't want fast internet, now they are pulling iPhones from the shelves because their network is overworked.

"The definition must include those services that Americans actually need and want -- and can afford -- to participate in the Internet-driven economy," AT&T Inc said in its comment letter to the FCC.

OK, AT&T - we want it. (Jeff Bezos: "We start with customer and work backward.")

+ Amazon sell more e-books on Christmas than real books

+ Copenhagen headline: India, China protect interests of developing nations

+ What's a Google Wave good for?

+ NASA needs a launch a week

+ World's fastest train begins service in China (about 245 miles per hour)

+ Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be Real, Planet-Hunters Say

+ Surprise! Obama cares about NASA

+ The Physics of Space Battles

+ Galactic Tides

+ The Year In Science

The Drone Wars Continue

'Drone raid' kills many in Pakistan

How long do you think it will be until every country has a drone air force? Think of all the children growing up in the Middle East, watching those drones...

Scientists discover Earth-like, water-rich planet