Is there a shopping magazine for dogs yet?
Generally, I have nothing against the shopping magazine genre. For instance, at Kinokuniya,
they have magazines devoted exclusively to the fall LV line or everything Marc Jacobs; it’s a
very Asian concept. But Cookie, Lucky* for the yuppie parent crowd,
takes this one step too far,
especially with this request for a “less chubby” baby for the debut cover (yes, the link is from the trashiest weblog that I’ll admit to reading).
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And just because I know that at least two of you get a kick out of any
article that uses the term, “boffin,” here’s an article about how poor security may have led to the announcement of the Tenth planet.
Saheli
August 2, 2005 @ 1:16 am
Is Gawker considered trashy? Woops! 😉
Boffins!! 😀
echan
August 3, 2005 @ 3:49 pm
Ah, I nearly forgot that your weblog gets the webbie for trashiness. : )
Or perhaps evil best friend’s high school nemesis. Just look at his last post.
ToastyKen
August 4, 2005 @ 12:05 am
About the tenth planet thing:
1) They were not sitting on the story since 2003. They took the data in
2003, but it moves so slowly that they didn’t notice it till doing a
second pass through the data in January of this year. They were still
gathering more data and were planning to publish in a few months.
2) No one really hacked anything. Rather, they let slip the code for a
related find at a conference, so someone googled on that code and found
some publicly available logs from the telescope they used. When they
found out about this, they realized that these folks could go look at
the same places and scoop them on the discovery, so they published
sooner than they had planned to.
If you care for some more direct info, here’s a thread from the Minor Planet Mailing List about this.
ToastyKen
August 4, 2005 @ 12:13 am
Oh, and here’s the page from the guy who found the 10th planet, and his take on what happened.