The planet, which hasn't been officially named yet, was found by Brown and colleagues using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego. It is currently about 97 times farther from the sun than Earth, or 97 Astronomical Units (AU). For comparison, Pluto is 40 AU from the sun.
Bob Goodenow is stepping down as head of the NHL Players' Association, less than a week after the union and league approved a new labor deal to end a lockout that wiped out the entire 2004-05 season.
New York City will begin tomorrow morning randomly checking bags at subway stations, commuter railways and on buses, officials announced today in the wake of the terrorist bombings in London.
"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use,'' said U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who co-sponsored the measure with U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.).
Could this be the beginning of streaming high quality movies and sports over the internet? Could I get NFL Sunday ticket over the internet? Please?
In twenty years we are gonna know our cable companies not because they provide archaic cable to our TVs but they provide the cable internet to our homes. (But hopefully by then they got that fiber optic stuff going.)
The Girl in the Café (HBO)
Oregonian: "An endearing romantic comedy."
Actual line: "This new offering from HBO Films is at its heart a bit of political propaganda wrapped into an endearing romantic comedy that starts losing its laughs when it gets to Reykjavik and decides its teachable moment has arrived."
Bubble Fun (game)
Bubble fun is an Othello like game where you try to pop as many bubbles at once by filing them up, you win if you turn the board all your color. Quite fun.
A bill before Canada's Parliament could make it illegal for search engines to cache Web pages, critics say, opening the door to unwarranted lawsuits and potentially hindering public access to information.
But not everyone is happy with Costco's business strategy. Some Wall Street analysts assert that Sinegal is overly generous not only to Costco's customers but to its workers as well.
Costco's average pay, for example, is $17 an hour, 42 percent higher than its fiercest rival, Wal-Mart's Sam's Club. And Costco's health plan makes those at many other retailers look Scroogish. One analyst, Bill Dreher of Deutsche Bank, complained last year that at Costco "it's better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder."
First is Sparrow Island (Andy). I think that this is one of my favorite flags. It is fashioned after the design of the Solomon Islands flag, using the colors that I used for his fantasy football helmet.
Next we have Svinksland (Davin). I followed the patteren of Scandinaivian flags for this one. Again I used the colors from the fantasy football helmits that I made.
Here is Tea Republic (mine). The original design came from the rugby shirt that I bought for Game Olympics from a couple of years back. It was a pretty simple flag to make.
Next is Tsukestan (Pickle). I loosely based this flag off of Greenland’s flag. I really wanted to have green as a dominate color, but still keep it separate from Snotvia’s white and green, so I added some black. The center oval symbolizes the Pickles that are abundant in Tsukestan.
Snotvia's (Nicole) flags was made by Nicole. She modeled it after the Macedonian flag (she just changed the colors). It is green, like snot, and white like ...via.
Schizouania's (Rhonda, my mom) flag was made by my mom. You see, everyone in Schizouania is crazy, so they see their own flag in the white field. This was the easiest flag to make.
Scotslandi’s (Julia) flag was made to look like Scotland’s flag. I couldn't get it to look right, so I alternated the orange and blue fields, and I think it turned out well.
Pirataly's (Michelle) flag was designed my Michelle. It was based off of Italy's flag with more piratey colors added, and a skull, you need the skull. This was a pain to make, but I think it turned out very well.
Rzanistan's (Rzan, or Ryan depending on how cool you are) flag was modeled after Uzbekistan's flag. It is a very simple flag, but I think it turned out real well. Again I used the colors from the fantasy football helmets that I made.
Futontopia's (Newgen) flag was designed by Newgen, while he was on drugs... or something... with that swirly thing and all. Actually, since this was one of the last flags that I made it went quickly, even though there was some technically difficult things to do on it.
Harbor Coast's (Lance) flag was the only flag that I did twice. The first one did not turn out real well, so after making a couple others, I went back to work on it. I added black to the flag which helped in giving it some weight. I didn't really model the flag off of any country, but it turned out like Trinidad and Tobago's. Oh well...
Nettethuania's (Jenette) flag was designed by Jenette off of her shirt that she bought for a jersey for the Game Olympics from a few years ago. This is the National flag for the country; they also have a battle fla,g which has a guy riding a tractor on it, a battle tractor.
Grog Islands' (Chris) flag was designed by Chris. The XXX are representative of Gorg, and I think the colors are loosely based off of his national jersey, although I am not totally sure about this. This flag was actually more complicated to make that it looks.
Kreplachistan’s (Aaron) flag was designed by Aaron using the design on his national rugby jersey as inspiration. I made this flag awhile ago, when I was just messing around.
Finally we have Ambersandia’s (Amber) flag. This is the only flag that I would not say is ‘official’. She has already made her own flag, but it is impossible to made in Illustrator, and after about an hour of trying to get the swirls to look un-stupid, I abandoned the attempt, and made her a new flag. The flag is based off of Abkhazia's flag, with the colors changed to match the fantasy football helmet that I made for her team. The 21 pointed star is representative of Peter Forsberg, of the Colorado Avalanche fame, so you know the flag must rock.
