These are my links for January 5th through January 15th:

• 25 Years Of Graphics History: A Farewell To ATI, In Pictures –
• Epoch Converter – Unix Timestamp Converter –
• The Naked Coder | Sarah White Consulting –
• Cheaper Than Dirt – America’s Ultimate Shooting Sports Discounter –
• TF2 Launch Options List – Steam Users’ Forums –
• LIRC – Linux Infrared Remote Control –
• Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman –
• cRPG Guide, Read if new to cRPG – www.c-rpg.net –
• cRPG & Strategus forum on TaleWorlds –
• TaleWorlds –
• cRPG Mod – Mount and Blade –
• Ultra-Mini Nano USB 2.0 802.11n 150Mbps Wifi/WLAN Wireless Network Adapter –

cute video of our impending time/matter space implosion!

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Nasa investigates virtual space » The US space agency is exploring the possibility of developing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game.
• Library of Congress Taps Web 2.0 for User Photo Expertise » As part of an effort to expand access to its photograph collections and tap the collective knowledge of user-generated content, the Library of Congress Wednesday launched a pilot project with photo-sharing site Flickr to publish some 3,000 photos. – New Y
• The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science »
• GeForce 9600GT Benchmarked Out in the Wild » NVIDIA’s upcoming 9600GT graphics card lives up to the company’s performance claims
• Discount Electronics »
• LITTER KWITTER » The Original Cat Toilet Training System.
• CIA: Hackers Shook Up Power Grids (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com » Hackers have tried to extort money from overseas utility companies. At least in one case, the Washington Post reports, the online attackers messed with an electrical grid, disrupting ing power in several cities.
• America’s Army game player saves real life » with no previous medical training, except from the game
• Rendering Games with Raytracing Will Revolutionize Graphics »
• RoboPult » Robot catapult hurls flaming fireballs
• Super Nightvision Headset Hack! » turn an old VHS camcorder into a nightvision scope.
• ‘Darkest ever’ material created » The material was created from carbon nanotubes – sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders. Researchers say it is the closest thing yet to the ideal black material, which absorbs light perfectly at all angles and over all wavelengths.
• Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision » Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.
• Chris Oliver’s Weblog : Weblog »
• JavaFX »
• In-Desk Dock for iPod » Belkin
• In-Desk USB Hub » Belkin
• Aggression: As Good as Food or Sex? »
• Create Quick Linker Widget » Amazon

• TF2 Wiki »
• Fawnt » fonts… web2.0 stylee
• WordPress Super Cache » updated chaching for WordPress, supposedly plays much nicer with plugins.
• Steampunk Keyboard Mod »
• GlassBooth » Find out which candidate most closely coincides with your views.
• Human Body in a Vacuum » How would the unprotected human body react to the vacuum of outer space?

Ion engines aren’t just Star Wars fodder anymore.

NASA’s Ion Engine Breaks Performance Record

• Nuclear Dawn – Welcome » Half-Life 2 mod
• Drawn to be alive » inventive mod
• Darsana » standalone multiplayer medieval game
• Troubleshooting a Peer to Peer Networking » on Windows machines
• Htaccess file – Rewrite »
• Pepakura Designer » Turn 3d computer models into paper models
• University of Texas Videogame Archive »
• South Austin Museum of Popular Culture »
• Vulcan Gas Company posters » Austin myusic venue from the 60′s that was the predecessor and inspiration for the Armadillo World Headquarters
• Device wakes man with severe brain injuries | U.S. | Reuters » A man with severe brain injuries who spent six years in a near-vegetative state can now chew his food, watch a movie and talk with family thanks to a brain pacemaker that may change the way such patients are treated, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
• Will playing games create a two-tier society? » Scientists say gamers are more visually intelligent. But what does that mean for the future of the net?
• Beer in space: A short but frothy history »
• Firefox/Thunderbird Extension Wizard »

Seven dark patches were found on Mars near a volcano, and dubbed the seven sisters, by researchers last month.

This week, they focused in on one of them, and it appears to be a very deep hole. A hole that could most likely be able to reach a depth inside Mars that would be warm enough to have liquid water.

I can’t wait until the Mars Bats Invasion.

The geological oddity measures some 330 feet (100 meters) across and is located on an otherwise bright dusty lava plain to the northeast of Arsia Mons, one of the four giant Tharsis volcanoes on the red planet.

The hole might be the sort of place that could support life or serve as a habitat for future astronauts, researchers speculated.

A lot of fantastical space news in the past few months, I can’t believe I missed this one.

In March, NASA released images of a Saturn that show an odd hexagon formation spinning over it’s north pole. The pictures are stunning, especially the moving gif.

“This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides,” said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “We’ve never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn’s thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you’d expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.”

Two spacecraft, just enough apart to make a stereoscopic image of anything they are pointng at, have been used to make stereoscopic images of the Sun.

Here is the release statement.

And here is the link to the page with all the pictures. Although they are true stereoscopic, they don’t seem to be offering the pictures in anything but red/blue 3d glasses format. There are movies as well as pictures.

Some samples (click to enlarge):