Just wanted to point out this wonderful xkcd comic. I like that it ends (or starts, if you like) with ‘folks’. This is why I love xkcd.

xkcd - A Webcomic - Height

The Jules Verne ATV, which was launched earlier this year by ESA to aid in deliveries to the ISS, will burn up today in a controlled fireball re-entry. The main event kicks off around midday (UT), as the spacecraft descends into the Pacific Ocean.

It has been a very busy Summer for me, and now it looks to be a very busy Autumn. This week I will be running the .Astronomy Conference, a meeting about networked astronomy and the new media. I recently submitted a telescope proposal for time on the JCMT. I have…

These are the top stories from the Digg Space category for the week ending Saturday 13th of September 2008:

• 1 NASA Photo of Hurricane Ike From the Space Station
• 2 NASA Has Plans for Nuclear Reactor Under Surface of The Moon
• 3 Aliens might have sent messages by tweaking variable stars
• 4 “Galactic internet” proposed
• 5…

The LHC goes online today. Here are some cool numbers.

These are the top stories from the Digg Space category for the week ending Saturday 06th of September 2008:

• 1 NASA to Explore the "Secret Layer" of the Sun
• 2 “Anyone Who Thinks The LHC Will Destroy The World is a Twat"
• 3 APOD: Milky Way Road Trip
• 4 Closest Look Yet at Milky Way”s…

I was tinkering about earlier and created this automator script, which changes my desktop image to be today’s APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). This is Mac OS X only.