The Palomar Observatory Sky Survey was sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Over ten years, between 1948 and 1958, astronomers at Cal Tech's Palomar Observatory used a 48-inch Schmidt Telescope to create the most advanced sky survey ever, a comprehensive portrait of most of the visible universe as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. …
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On The Sky Atlas And The NGS-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
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Eli Manning, The Manchurian Sforzian Backdrop
http://greg.org/archive/2008/05/01/eli_manning_the_manchurian_sforzian_backdrop.htmlThe hand that picks the nose shakes the hand that rules the world. For another seven months. [ap via wonkette]…
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EE Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way
http://greg.org/archive/2008/04/29/ee_barnards_photographic_atlas_of_selected_regions_of_the_milky_way.htmlEdward Emerson Barnard was a self-taught astronomer who built a house for himself and his new bride with money earned spotting comets. [A patent medicine magnate was offering $200/comet in the 1880's; in one year, Barnard spotted eight.] He was the first person to discover a new moon of Jupiter since Gallileo. …
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Soda, Pop
http://billbraine.blogspot.com/2008/05/soda-pop.htmlsecond time was this past Wednesday, when a kind insider included me on an email announcing drinks and a book signing for Things I Learned About my Dad (in Therapy), where Heather Armstrong, her husband Jon, Alice Bradley, Doug French, Sarah Brown, and Greg Allen (whom I didn't meet...was he there?) would all be in attendance, sitting in a small circle, entertaining the occasional reader who dropped in with stories of human cannibalism, climbing K2, writing novels with q-tips dipped in the jet-black ink of the
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Time to Look at Stimulants With a Measured, Clinical Eye
http://blurbomat.com/archives/2008/05/09/time-to-look-at-sti...everyone who wants to see the video will be able to see it. Thanks to Sarah Brown and her agent Anne for the hookup at Soda in Brooklyn. They were good sports, even when we went way past the 7:30 end time. Also, great to see Alice and Doug! Greg, you were missed! Soda didn’t complain when we moved the line outside and kept it in front of the establishment. Also, thanks to every one of you who came out and waited on line (apparently New Yorkers need the space between
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Flickr faves?
http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2008/05/flickr_faves.htmlFlickr photos that match 'Richard Serra.' This left me wondering: Is Richard Serra the most 'popular' Flickr artist? His works are huge and picturesque (ask Hiroshi Sugimoto), so maybe... UPDATE: Greg Allen went down this path in 2006. Olafur Eliasson is up to 4,227. Also, readers have suggested Henry Moore (a presumably common name, but still 14,490) and [Alexander] Calder (17,471, last name only).
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Flickr faves?
http://artworkresource.com/flickr-faves/Flickr photos that match 'Richard Serra.' This left me wondering: Is Richard Serra the most 'popular' Flickr artist? His works are huge and picturesque (ask Hiroshi Sugimoto), so maybe... UPDATE: Greg Allen went down this path in 2006. Olafur Eliasson is up to 4,227. Also, readers have suggested Henry Moore (a presumably common name, but still 14,490) and [Alexander] Calder (17,471, last name only).
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DTQ: What Do You Think Of Your Dozuki?
http://daddytypes.com/2008/05/07/dtq_what_do_you_think_of_yo...some longwinded discussion of it here
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Newsletter: Month Fifty and Fifty-one
http://raxial.com/projects/mofakas/Release/?p=3m working with my publisher to try and set up a book signing somewhere in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon (May 7). Four of the contributors live in the area and will also be there to sign books: Alice Bradley, Sarah Brown, Doug French, and Greg Allen. Once I know all the details I’ll let you know. Right now we’re just trying to find a place that can host us on such short notice, so we may just end up setting up a table in the middle of Times Square. If you
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What are you doing tomorrow night?
http://www.finslippy.com/finslippy/2008/05/what-are-you-do.h...Greg. (Scott, aka
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Catching up
http://sideshow.me.uk/sapr08.htm#04291215" Via Brad DeLong, who thinks this means Zakaria will vote for Obama. Jonathan Schwarz has spoken. (He also recommends Jeff Cohen on how war propaganda kicked him off TV, and Stephen Greenhouse on the big squeeze on American workers.) Lego city of the future - by Norman Mailer. (via)
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Norman Mailer…
http://briancassidy.net/blog/norman-mailer/Lego builder!?
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Lego Diem — Three Hundred and Sixty Five Meditations on Lego Per Year
http://www.legodiem.comIf you had to name one American, for instance, who clubbed together with a couple of friends in 1965 and spent more than three weeks building a futuristic seven-foot vertical city out of Lego, you might not immediately think of Norman Mailer.
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