Archive for February, 2006

Returning from Mars

I was part of an eight-person manned mission to Mars, and when we returned, as per plan our spacecraft splashed down in a lake in a relatively remote part of the US. However, the external ballon/raft like things that were supposed to inflate to provide buoyancy did not deploy, and the spacecraft sank to the [...]

Boing Boing reports on GLTerminal, a program to emulate an old video terminal (green or amber screen, text only, with various commonly seen screen distortions).
It looks pretty cool. The article says that people are hacking on it, but even with Google I can’t seem to find the source code. Anybody know where it can be [...]