February 10, 2001

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Astronauts are going to attach a space lab to the International Space Station today. They are finally going to be able to do "real" experiments, including some that could help them out on a mission to Mars. I think that definitly by 2025 we will have landed someone on Mars. And on the related subject of Mars, RedColony discusses what kind of mission that would be.

I know many people hate Survivor (I personally like it) but one guy got really lucky with the domain name he bought 5 years ago, Survivor.com. He hasn't been hassled too much by CBS over the domain name since he didn't buy it as a domain name squatter, but he did have some bandwidth problems.

Napster's short term fate is going to be decided Monday (Feb. 12) in a federal court. If you rememeber, they were originally supposed to be shut down during the trial agains them (so the service couldn't be used while it's legality was being questioned) back on July 26, 2000, but they got a last minute stay. The court then heard arguements about the stay on October 2nd, and now they are finally making their decision. So if the injunction is held by the court, then Napster shuts down Monday almost immediatly. Then it's OpenNap for me.

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