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Sites that I found interesting for October 5th 2009 through October 8th 2009:

• NASA preps to shoot the moon – On Friday morning October 9 at 4:31:19 a.m. PDT, NASA plans to have two spacecraft crash into the lunar surface to dig up some moon dust and search for water.
• CopyTransManager is a Snappy and Light-Weight iTunes Alternative – If all you really want out of your iPod experience is the ability to load music, movies, and podcasts onto your iPod without any bulk or bloat, portable and free CopyTransManager is a speedy iTunes-alternative. via @isdixon on Twitter.
• Gravatar – Globally Recognized Avatars – Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. via @MrsNatalie on Twitter.

Sites that I found interesting for September 25th 2009 through September 27th 2009:

• It’s Official: Water Found on the Moon – New observations from three different spacecraft return what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon. via @Macht_Nichts on Twitter.
• Install Picasa 3.5 In Linux – Want the same kind of facial recognition, name tagging and easy geo-location of Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac on your Linux desktop? There’s no official release, but you can fairly easily plug Picasa into your system.
• Microsoft’s Chiller-less Data Center – Microsoft today announced that its huge facility in Dublin, Ireland is running without any chillers. Outside air is drawn into the facility to cool the thousands of servers powering the company’s “Live” suite of online services for users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Sites that I found interesting for September 21st 2009 through September 23rd 2009:

• Indian space mission finds water on moon – An Indian space mission claims to have found water on the moon, raising hopes that a manned base could be established there within the next two decades.
• WWW FAQs: How do I design web pages for the iPhone? – Handy CSS tips to get your page to display nicely on an iphone.
• TV on your Media Center PC: a 30-second primer – Ed Bott has a quick run down on the current state of getting TV on you PC.

Sites that I found interesting for August 22nd 2009

• 5 Awesome facts about Moon you didn't know – In salute of the lunar landing and this brilliant stone and all the dreams she inspires, we present five things you didn’t know about the moon.
• Wakali Wa Downtown – In the fall of 2008, Urban Project, a grass roots Canadian charity helped a group of talented Tanzania street youth record this Bongo Flava hip hop album. By purchasing this album, you are contributing to a fund that goes directly back to these artists.
• 64-Bit Chrome Emerges for Linux First – Google Chrome will soon be available in 64-bit form, but only for Linux.

• Hidden van Gogh painting unveiled for first time
  A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters’ paintings, recreating a color portrait of a woman’s face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.
  (tags: painting photography van+gogh)
• An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need
  an illustrated guide to pretty much every kind of cable you will see in current gadgets and what it’s used for
  (tags: reference cables technology hardware tech computer electronics)
• NASA Confirms Liquid Lake On Saturn Moon
  NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn’s moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane. This makes Titan the only body in our solar system beyond Earth know
  (tags: nasa saturn titan liquid)

• Blu-ray: The Future Has Been Delayed
  In fact, sales of Blu-ray standalone players remain so low that NPD has not yet released actual numbers, for fear that it would be easy to identify individual retailers. The research group will start to give actual figures later this year.
  (tags: sales blu-ray)
• (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos
  Definately worth looking at.
  (tags: photography photos)
• Send Your Name to the Moon
  NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft.
  (tags: nasa moon lro lunar)

The Earth’s shadow crept across the moon’s surface early on Tuesday, slowly eclipsing it and turning it to shades of orange and red. The total lunar eclipse was visible in North and South America, especially in the West.

Time lapse video from AP: