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| Tuesday, July 25, 2006 |
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Off to OSCON 2006 
| | After all the delays I finally arrived at Portland's airport around 11:30pm. Took the MAX to the hotel, got myself set up and finally in bed around 1am. Then up at 5am (after hitting the snooze 10 times starting at 4am). I should be getting too old for this, but I still love doing it. |
Atrend of a new breast
Your assignment
| | I've said before that the best of blogging is inherently provisional. Rather than stating Final Truths about a subject, it digs toward truths that lie buried to some degree. Or it assembles a new understanding, piece by piece. |
| | Jay Rosen provides an outstanding example with NewAssignment.net, which suggests new approaches to the business, as well as the practice, of citizen journalism. |
| | Something is going to happen in this space. This is a great start. |
Grokking the Net
Only colder
| | Dark patches, which resemble terrestrial lakes, seem to be sprinkled all over the high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole. |
| | Scientists have speculated that liquid methane or ethane might form lakes on Titan, particularly near the somewhat colder polar regions. In the images, a variety of dark patches, some with channels leading in or out of them, appear. The channels have a shape that strongly implies they were carved by liquid. Some of the dark patches and connecting channels are completely black, that is, they reflect back essentially no radar signal, and hence must be extremely smooth. In some cases rims can be seen around the dark patches, suggesting deposits that might form as liquid evaporates. The abundant methane in Titan's atmosphere is stable as a liquid under Titan conditions, as is its abundant chemical product, ethane, but liquid water is not. For all these reasons, scientists interpret the dark areas as lakes of liquid methane or ethane, making Titan the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to possess lakes. |
| | They look a lot like Nunavut to me: |
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