Full Impluse, Mr. Sulu

I've been spending way too much time lately playing with Celestia, the open-source, multi-OS, interactive planetarium app. Essentially, it allows you to glide easily across our galaxy, tracking any and every moving chunk of matter within literally 800 light years (and beyond) from any angle. It's just way fucking cool. I already have some very nifty screenshots of the inner solar system as seen from several hundred meters above the surface of the asteroid Iocaste. Download it here or get it as a part of The Open CD.

As you know, Firefox version 1.0.1 has landed. Highly recommended that anyone you know using Firefox 1.0 should upgrade ASAP. There's nothing flashy about 1.0.1, just loads of security updates and bugfixes. I uninstalled 1.0 before installing the new version (a measley 4.7MB download) and all my themes, extensions, bookmarks, cookies, and even toolbar configurations were automatically and flawlessly maintained.

Slashdot put up a post about the first image ever posted on the web, and guess what? It's chicks! Hot, geeky, rock band chicks singing about "colliders, quarks, microwaves, antiprotons, and the Internet." Nothing screams "sexy" quite like Mosaic Browser and girls in weird, ill-fitting prom dresses.