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bygone era July 2003 « June 2003 | Main | August 2003 » July 25, 2003 Kolyma: The Land of Gold and Death Stanislaw J. Kowalski, a survivor of the gulag at Kolyma (one of the most isolated regions of Siberia), tells the story of the prison mining camps in the "land of gold and death". Posted by Michelle at 11:24 AM | | Comments (0) Mail this entry July 24, 2003 Russian Spammers Email the Wrong Technosurfer The American Language Center, a notorious spammer in Russia, picked the wrong man to mess with: Deputy Communications Minister Andrei Korotkov. He responded with a barrage of automated phone calls--about 1000 in a single morning--until they were sufficiently annoyed enough to have their phones blocked. No word on whether they've reconsidered their spamming ways. Posted by Michelle at 06:12 PM | | Comments (0) Mail this entry July 21, 2003 The 58th Anniversary of the Atomic Age. The successful Trinity nuclear test was made July 16, 1945, in which a six-kilogram sphere of plutonium, compressed to supercriticality by explosive lenses, exploded over the New Mexico desert with a force equal to approximately 20,000 tons of TNT. The Stafford Memo (original in PDF), dated 58 years ago today, is the declassified official report. Outside the use of the weapon in warfare, the risks to humans were uncertain. Posted by Michelle at 03:22 PM | | Comments (0) Mail this entry July 19, 2003 Match Made in Heaven Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, currently stationed aboard the International Space Station, and his sweetheart Ekaterina Dmitriev are making plans to wed... while he's still 240 miles overhead in Earth orbit, in the first ever wedding from space. (The bride has lived in Houston, Texas most of her life, and, fortunately for the happy couple, Texas not only allows marriage licenses to be issued when one of the parties is not physically present, but also allows marriages by proxy.) The wedding is scheduled for August 10th; no word yet on whether Malenchenko's crewmate, astronaut Ed Lu, will serve as best man. Posted by Michelle at 06:46 PM | | Comments (0) Mail this entry July 08, 2003 EWWW Got a spare $100,000 lying around? Well, you can use it to bid on this eBay auction for a tooth and some hair from Elvis. Oh, and a gold record, too. (Personally, I would never bid more than $10,000 on an auction where the seller had zero feedback, but that's just me.) I wonder if the seller realizes that DNA can be extracted from the tooth pulp. Maybe the Raelians will buy this and clone Elvis! Posted by Michelle at 11:33 PM | | Comments (0) Mail this entry « June 2003 | Main | August 2003 »