I’m a bit late on this month’s What’s Up article, where I usually detail events like this, but I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of today’s transit of Mercury.
A transit occurs when a planet interior to our own (Mercury or Venus) crosses directly in between the Earth and the Sun. What we […]
Archive for November, 2006
Sarah at Scriptorium’s Palimpsest was asked by Adobe to distribute a questionnaire to technical communication professionals.
Adobe wants feedback on the future of its tech. comm. products. Chime in with your opinion.
Chir.ag has compiled a text database of the speeches and documents made by all the US presidents, and generated a tag cloud for each.
It’s a fascinating way to explore history. Scanning the clouds allows one to determine what issues were most important to the president at the time.
I’ve always thought tag clouds were an intriguing […]
There once was a spacecraft named Hubble,
whose finances fell into trouble.
When its budget runs dry,
it will fall from the sky
and break up into nothing but rubble.
But it won’t happen anytime soon…
