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an eventful week

Technology

We just launched a complete redesign at work. The site is now called “Eventful”:http://eventful.com, and it’s geared toward making event sharing as engaging as possible. (The company is still called EVDB, but I won’t mind if you call it Eventful too. It’s easier to pronounce.) As I posted in a “comment this morning”:http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/001788.html:

bq. We worked like crazed beavers to get the new site out. Please do check out the new search features, the all-new social networking, and the brand-new levels of privacy on everything from calendars to venues. And the spiffy new sticker for adding events to your blog.

Once you have, please please please “let us know”:http://eventful.com/feedback what you like (and especially what you don’t). We’re still working like crazed beavers on that next rev…

happy yarrrrr day

Holiday! Celebrate!

Since it’s “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”:http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html, you might enjoy Ben’s first joke:

bq. What does a pirate dog say?

bq. Arrrrrrrf.

Thank you folks, he’s here all week. Now cleanse your palate with something “actually funny”:http://www.partiallyclips.com/itlapd.php.

the return of penguin lust

Film

Patrick pointed out a New York Times article on “conservatives flocking to March of the Penguins”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/science/13peng.html because it “affirms traditional norms like monogamy, sacrifice and child rearing”, not to mention (ugh) intelligent design. “Hooey” is the word that comes to mind, mostly because I saw the same film and didn’t feel even a twinge of neocon longing.

Don’t let a few kooky fans get in the way of seeing the film, though. It’s an extraordinary documentary on a fascinating subject, and well worth the price of admission.

more power! [cackle]

Space

SpaceX, one of the new private space race competitors, has announced the “Falcon 9″:http://www.space.com/news/050908_spacex_falcon.html project, a launch vehicle with enough oomph to send big satellites into orbit or supplies up to ISS. Better yet, launches could be as cheap as $20 million each, which puts it smack in the middle of “Space Prize”:/mt/archives/000412.html territory. Go SpaceX!