Drawball!
January 13, 2006
Drawball is a very cool collaborative drawing thing. It takes some patience to load, but once you zoom in to the 100% point, you’re shown some primitive drawing tools.
Aside from the soup nazi-esqu warnings up front, I think it is a site worth checking out.
By the way, here’s my house: http://www.drawball.com/34hppmv
The ‘Wow’ Signal
January 4, 2006
“He did some analysis of the data, and by all indications this powerful, narrowband radio signal was from outside of our solar system. But was it sent by an advanced civilization?”
I’ve set up a few PC’s with the SETI@home client, and at one point a handful of SPARC servers in an integration lab I worked at. All in all I helped post about 19,000 data ‘packets’, and helped a friend climb to the top (80th overall) of Art Bells’ SETI Group. In that time I often wondered ‘what if?…’
I suppose that for me it;s not a question of if, but rather a question of then what?! I’m pretty convinced we’re not alone, but if for a moment you assume that the lifeforms are intelligent, then they most be avoiding us, right?!
So for me, I would rather we just leave them alone.
In my best Jewish mother voice: “If they wanted to talk to you they would call you. Leave them poor people alone!”
