News You Can Bruise for 2006 March 2 (entry 0)

(1) Thu Mar 02 2006 22:23 Link dump:

• Just when you thought Lucene couldn't get any cooler, now it has an Atom-based web service API.
• What causes double rainbows? The surprising answer... after this!
• A cool-sounding movie about the sun. No details are available about this cool-sounding movie, but you can learn fun facts about the sun.
• This PBEM game about the Singularity sounds like a great idea, but after reading the rules I think the dressing is the main cool thing, and the game mechanics are kind of generic. Let's come up with some Singularity-specific game mechanics.
• Displaying large datasets atop Google Maps

Turns out double rainbows are caused by inflation. Now here's Bob with the weather!

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Comments:

Posted by Jack Masters at Fri Mar 03 2006 12:33

The model of a hydrogen-filled sun is obsolete!

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:grBQCfw7dDQJ:www.thesunisiron.com/docs/Why_the_Model_of_a_Hydrogen.doc+%22why+the+model+of+a%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a