Quoted: LiftPort Group of Space Elevator Companies - Building the world's first Space Elevator - Site includes information about carbon nanotubes, robotics, and the space elevator.

30 minutes to the first web report by newspapers. Suspect was apparently shot in the head! The twitter-ers reported "dozens" of shots fired.

Quoted: Seattle police chased an alleged bank robber into downtown Seattle Tuesday, and were attempting to arrest the man shortly before 11 a.m.

King5 has also picked up the story for the "ultra-hybrid".

And Ed managed to get the simultaneous endorsements of Gov. Chris Gregoire AND Dino Rossi (Ed for Governor!)

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An even better video of the whole mission. Great landing sequence (no dialog).

Quoted: Phoenix Mission: A new space explorer is waiting in the wings and ready to take center stage: the Mars lander called Phoenix. Set for launch aboard a Delta II rocket, Phoenix's assignment is to dig through the Martian soil and ice in the arctic region and use its onboard scientific instruments to analyze the samples it retrieves.

Touchdown, JPL!

We met the operators of this Seattle ex-patriot web site. It's actually heavily visited and there looks to be a lot of useful information here for the ex-pat community in Seattle.

Quoted: Directory of European Businesses and Products in the Pacific Northwest, The bridge between Europe and the Pacific Northwest

Bonehead stunt - even for a priest.

Quoted: Priest drifted out to sea while trying to set record for flight using helium-filled party balloons, say authorities

I met Alan last night at Yuri's night. He's the Science Editor for MSNBC.

Quoted: As MSNBC.com's science editor, Alan Boyle runs a virtual curiosity shop of the physical sciences, space exploration, archaeology and other ologies. He administers a daily dose of science via his award-winning Cosmic Log column.

I wasn't aware that Om had a heart attack in December.

Bloggers need to stop taking themselves so seriously. First - writing posts at a rate of several per day is probably too much. Very few readers will actually read the majority of your posts.

Even with news reader software, I can't take the time to keep up with all the blogs I find "interesting". I don't really want to read "twitchy" articles, written by bloggers who are anxious to be the first to break a story. I'd rather read insightful and educational posts where someone has actually taken some time to analyze, research, compare, contrast, etc.

Bloggers who write for a living need to find a model where they can get out of the rat race, and into a more productive (healthy) lifestyle.

Quoted: Some professional bloggers complain of the stressful demands of a constant flow of news and comment.