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Submission + - Discovery lands in Florida

duh P3rf3ss3r writes: As reported by the BBC, the space shuttle Discovery safely landed at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 2232 GMT. Discovery's 13 day mission is being called a success after astronauts undertook four space walks to install new wiring and to do battle with a recalcitrant solar panel. The next scheduled flight is the Atlantis shuttle in March.

A video chronicle of the mission, including the landing, is available at NASA's video gallery.
Television

Journal Journal: Wikis Wikis Everywhere

Television show wikis are becoming a popular trend for shows that pack a lot of information. Star Trek, Lost...each have their own wikis full of information. NBC's new hit sci-fi drama Heroes is no exception. Heroes Wiki is a fan-based wiki for everything related Heroes. It's a great resource for fans of the show and includes a gallary of
United States

Journal Journal: Activists 1, Constitution 0 2

Yesterday the Washington State Supreme Court decided that King County critical areas ordinance was not subject to county referendum.

User Journal

Journal Journal: It is lonely being a Libertarian. But Dave Barry is! 8

I guess you could say that I recently came out of the closet. I had been a party line Republican because the alternative, killing babies and taking all my money, is not attractive. But Republicans and still taking all my money and then wasting it still so over the past 3-5 years, I have trended more towards independence from the two party system.

Making Time With the Watchmakers 257

PreacherTom writes "In the age of watches that have more computational power than Apollo 11's computer, one would think that the watchmaker has gone the way of the cobbler, the blacksmith and the Dodo. Quite the contrary. With the rise in interest for mechanical watches (especially luxury models), Rolex has sponsored a new school to train horologists in the arcane art. From the article: 'We were facing a situation today where we needed to foster a new generation of watchmakers,' says Charles Berthiaume, the senior vice-president for technical operations at Rolex and the Technicum's president 'Thirty to 40 years ago, there was a watchmaker at every jewelry store. That's not the case today,' he notes. Included are some remarkable examples of their training, dedication, and intricate patience as they take technology in an entirely different direction."
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: Shuttle launches XPC 1337 Series SXDi

Forget selling your first born for a PlayStation 3, and get in line for the SDXi gaming rig from Shuttle's XPC 1337 range. You'll get a double performance boost from the two ATI Radeon X1950 XTX video cards that are running in AMD's ATI CrossFire technology, and will have the fastest machine on the block.
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: AMD opens next-gen chip tech think-tank

Software giant AMD has opened a next-gen chip tech think-tank in Redmond, Washington. The Advanced Architecture and Technology Lab (AATL)'s mission is to determine which technologies will drive AMD's products "beyond the five-year time horizon", part of the company's plan to build it's operation into one to match arch-rival Intel's. "The AATL will be run by AMD's chief architectural officer, Rich Witek, who's

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