24. December, 2002 - Christmas Eve
- Antarctic explorers try out kite power to cross part of Antarctica in a hurry. It's science-fiction material that reality's caught up to. [some guy]
- Making the Macintosh is a history done by Stanford. Cool.
- Hoaxers vs the Rocket Scientists Were the Apollo moon landings faked? Conspiracy advocates say it was a hoax perpetrated by the US government to win the space race against the Soviet Union. With two prime-time specials and many books, history is slowly being rewritten in the popular mind. NASA remains unsure how to respond to such preposterousness and finds itself stumbling. (Not mentioned in the article is that the first high-profile attempt to poke fun at the conspiracy theorists is the 1971 James Bond flick Diamonds are Forever which featured a moon-buggy chase outside of Las Vegas on a mock-up movie set. [reed]
- Distributed Proofreaders are working to improve the text-checking rate at Project Gutenberg.
- Everything is an online encyclopædia [some guy]
- Zeldman provides an OS X Switcher's Guide. I don't know that entirely agree with him (typeit4me never did much for me, for example), but I'm still going to keep the bookmark handy as I spend more time on OS X. [zeldman]
- Picture Yourself is a collection of pictures people have taken of themselves.
- The Luminous Landscape has a number of useful photography tutorials online.
- Speaking of photography, don't forget it's World Sousveillance Day today.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:51:07.