NASA
Thursday, October 18, 2001 
NASA's chief, Dan Goldin, is stepping down. A recommendation for a
successor is supposed to have gone to Bush yesterday. NASA Watch reports
Thomas
Moorman one of the leading candidates. [via cnn (story)]
CNet is running a series
on XP. [via rc3]
Space.com has an article
on recent
studies
on Space Solar
Power (SSP):
collecting power from the sun in orbit and transferring to Earth with
laser or microwave. [via /.]
Early draft of Eric Raymond's
new book: The Art
of Unix Programming [via fozbaca]
Why
birds fly in a V formation.
A team is using
ultralights are helping whooping cranes migrate from Wisconsin to
Florida as part of a reintroduction project. [via NPR (story -
RealAudio)]
Now this is
a reason to get DVD. [via Metafilter]
Talk about poor
timing: Publishers Clearinghouse is mailing out packages of
powdered detergent. [via Follow Me Here]
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