The key to a good personality quiz is to make the questions as entertaining as the potential results. The always funny BBspot offers up Which OS Are You?, and I'll admit that my enjoyment of it doubled when they were on-the-ball enough to peg me as HP-UX, the only old-time unix variant included. Wheee! [via PCJM] If that isn't enough fun for you, go scan the features archive for their reviews of movie trailers - one of my favorite parts of their site.
[2.5.03]

For those who are claiming NASA accomplishes nothing of value besides being a sort of "extreme-science" for thrillseeking nerds, I suggest you visit Space Research at NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research (a huge list of technical articles about research out of NASA with nice summaries) or NASA's Earth Science page. I commented in a private forum earlier today that even beyond these results, I have no problem if we haven't seen the fruit of all of this research yet. Arguments against funding pure research when people are suffering are as old as government, as are the arguments for. Personally, I see the quest for knowledge of our world to be one of the admirable and selfless activities our government takes on. For the many criticisms I have of the scientific community, I think it is one of the few truly international communities. I can't think of anything (including going to war!) that the US feels it can only do with cooperation from other countries - except build and maintain the International Space Station. Putting aside the many scientific advantages, I like that there is one national priority we have that we admit we can't do on our own.
[2.3.03]

If I thought I was disturbed when, around about Thanksgiving this year, I heard John Madden rambling about some Turducken abomination, I am even more disturbed that you can see upclose-and-personal Turducken photos, from someone who ordered one off the internet and actually served it to their friends. (Of course you can order Turducken off the internet....) [via Anita LOL]
[2.3.03]

So far, the best on-line coverage I've found of the Columbia tragedy is at Spaceflight Now. They are updating continually on their Mission Status Center page, and you can read back through their coverage of the entire mission and the reaserch being done. [via Eatonweb]
[2.1.03]

I detest the media. The Columbia destruction is a tragedy for both the astronaut's families and everyone at NASA associated with the project. I am sure that nobody there is feeling relief that Bush said we will continue space exploration, as the pundits started saying after he spoke. I can't imagine they are feeling anything but grief over the loss of their teammates lives and the failure of the mission, and agonizing over whether there is anything they could have done to have prevented it. I hope that people's thoughts and prayers go out to them as well. The loss of lives that were in their hands must be personally devastating.
[2.1.03]