http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog Thoughts on Science and Technology Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:01:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amazon.com has launched Amazon Green to help customers select and identify products that are environment-friendly. You can enter your favorite green products and Amazon will add them to the green category. http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/2008/08/13/amazon-green/ I have been thinking about human science and exploration, and how long it takes for these processes to initiate and result in acceptance and conclusion.  When considering exploration, it seems it takes about two human lifetimes to go from the initial explorations to settlement.  Perhaps this is the cultural time ... http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/2008/07/11/advances-in-science-and-exploration/ Over time, I have collected a variety of domain names... mostly as an experiment on how selling domains works. I have found that Sedo.com is a great place to sell them. I currently have the following for sale: These three should go together in one portfolio focused on Asian business / investing / ... http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/2008/06/23/selling-domain-names/   (The painting above is by Mark Witton click here for better image) The Quetzalcoatlus is a giant pterosaur from the late Cretaceous Period with a 30 foot wingspan... the size of a small airplane.  Many of the smaller pterosaurs, which populated the edges of the Western Interior Seaway of North America ... http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/2008/06/06/quetzalcoatlus-and-maribous/ Two great images from the HiRISE camera! This is the Phoenix probe parachuting into Mars' north polar region from orbit with Heimdall Crater in the background.  A larger image can be seen at Astronomy Picture of the Day. This image shows the Phoenix probe on the ground.   At this point, a camera under Phoenix may have ... http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/2008/06/01/phoenix-from-space/