A.E.Brain

From a post on Cumudgeon's Corner come this article from the Toronto Star : China plans to land a human on the moon by 2020, the count...

Nothing new .

As about 30% of my readers are American, just thought I'd wish you all a happy Thanksgiving. In Australia, we have something to be th...

From Opte comes this work of art - a colour-coded map of the internet's main structure. Asia Pacific - Red Europe/Middle East/Cen...

This adventure, and much more, available at Steve Conley's Astounding Space Thrills ( an on-line comic).

Warning : one of the links is to material that is nightmarish. Parental disgression advised. "...flesh is stronger than steel because ...

Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow From Scene 1 of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail": SOLDIER #1: Listen...

One of the things that fascinate me is how people find this blog, and the search strings they've entered to get here. Some recent exa...

Sometimes while surfing the net, looking for useful things, one serendipidously finds something completely useless that was long looked-for,...

Before March this year, I had a conversation with a good friend of mine, whose views are rather to the Left of my own, discussing Iraq and W...

Rocket Man has a remarkable article on the testing involved in making a booster - in this case, the Atlas-V. The amount of engineering that...

There's been an old black-and-white cartoon of a tree swing that's been around for decades. According to one source , (presentatio...

From Cynical Cyn , via G'day Mate comes a hilarious letter from a Marine Recruit from the sticks. This next will kill Walt and Elmer w...

There's a link to the left called Spacecraft Design . It's Dr Christopher D.Hall's blog, which apart from imparting words of wit...

Mark Whittington has produced an excellent analysis of the Chinese Space Programme . He may be right, he may be wrong, but I agree with him...

In the news: Little Aussie Battler Defies Space Storm Fedsat is now the longest-lasting satellite built in Australia and the first in th...

After an examination so grueling it was positively Olivertwistian, I've finally finished the last test of the last module of my Master...

I really should be studying for my exam (25 hours and 27 minutes to go, but who's counting). But for the last fortnight I've been ut...

As to why posts have been nonexistant, let me just say: It's not the 17-hour days that get you, it's the 120-hour weeks and 250-hou...

I work for a mob called Software Improvements . On Monday, Salon wrote a rather complimentary article on our eVACS® electronic voting sy...