Folks,

A bit of awesomeness and human joy here.

The folks over at Attic Room Production have created a wonder filled reproduction of Yuri Gagarin's flight.

It runs just about an hour and a half long - slightly longer than Yuri's actual flight - and has the audio track of Gagarin's radio conversations with Korolev and others back on the ground as the ( Read more... )

Grrr.....

I've been a longtime non-Internet Explorer user.  This, as a matter of principle.

First it was Netscape.  Then it was Mozilla.  Then it was Firefox.

But then Firefox started crapping out on me.  It worked fine enough for years but then something changed.  In particular once I moved to Vista Firefox would just suddenly sieze up.  None of the ( Read more... )