The space shuttle broke up today around 9am CST over northeast Texas. You can read about it here. A live feed of BBC News can be found here [UPDATE: Apparently, this feed is no longer available. NEW LINK. Should work now.] (requires RealPlayer). This is sad.

Israel's first astronaut was on board. This has sparked quite a bit of talk of terrorism. I'm not sure how that's possible at over 200,000 feet. Nutcases on slashdot are talking about EMP bombs. OK?!?!

UPDATE: A nice timestamped rundown of the shuttles final minutes can be had here (http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/status.html).

This should be considered SPAM. I'm only posting it because I found it entertaining. I find things entertaining that most don't, so your mileage may vary.

WTF am I talking about? BBSpot's personality to OS matcher. You answer a bunch of questions and it tells you which operating system you are most like. How... witty. Here is what it said I was.



You can try it out too at http://bbspot.com/News/2003/01/os_quiz.php. Be careful. Don't have to much fun.