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| Ten months ago, I instituted a feature called Website of the Month, and then proceeded to forget it until now. In a belated move to resuscitate it , I heartily recommend www.shatters.net/celestia/ to you, which invites you to download, free, gratis and for nothing, the marvellous Celestia, a superb four-dimensional virtual model of much of the known galaxy . You can wander around the solar system to your heart's content, speeding up and reversing time like a drunk Albert Einstein. Below are a sample of screenshots: Saturn and its family of moons, Saturn again, viewed from Iapetus, one of its satellites; Europa and its mother planet, Jupiter; Pluto and Charon, depicted using a little astronomical licence; the asteroid, Eros, and star GJ3021 with a hypothesised view of its recently discovered planet. |
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| I hope that you didn't find the introductory page to this month's message too self-obsessed. I can't really defend it against such accusations, but it was kind of fun to put together the animated Mike's World in an exasparating Bluepetery sort of way. Don't ask me how I did it: Paintbox, scanner, MGI Photo Suite 4, Advanced GIF animator and all the sticky-backed plastic WHSmith had to offer. I guess that I needed a suitable introduction to this month's main feature, an investigation into the other Mike's Worlds floating around on the Internet. It's probably best that I get this kind of thing out of the way now, before I am accused of Davegormanite tendencies of sadness: I had a trawl through some of the results that inputting "Mike's World" on yahoo.com yielded , and I invite you to click on the image of me obliterating the Americas to view the results. Well, maybe it looks daft having a planet devoted to me on this page, when juxtaposed with the images of the real ones depicted opposite. It's kind of heartwarming thought that some of my fellow virtual Mikes have got the fine art of verysadworldery completely sorted, even though most of them seem to fail to acknowledge that very fact. |
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| Click on the album cover for what may become a regular fixture: a monthly look at music. Newly emboldened by my comments in defence of Bob Dylan last month , you may shudder to think what might happen here. |
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| Last month, in The Thoughts of Chairman Po, in the interests of free speech, some "research" from Professor Joseph Olson was reproduced. Click on his picture to get to the heart of the matter. |
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| Duncan, pictured here still alive after the 1998 London Marathon, finished his 6th Marathon in 5132th place this month! However, his combined times are still less than my Karaokeathon. Donations: MS Society |
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