News You Can Bruise for 2005 July 20

Really great APOD today, and of course moon maps. Turns out the moon is not nearly as interesting as the Earth. Should be fun fodder for Paolo's Games on Google Maps list. You know, Google Maps has totally rehabilitated Javascript. People (inc. me if I weren't busy) are falling all over themselves to write stuff in this primitive and previously shunned programming language.

I wanted to call our pirate ship the S.S. Mutiny. Kevin disagreed. I pointed out that whenever we made a raid, it would be bounty on the Mutiny. Kevin was not as impressed by this as I felt he should have been.