Barnhard Blog

Just a nice simpel flash page with nice photos, music that creates a peaceful mood and low key commentary.

The first European satellite to be designed and built by students has launched successfully from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia’s northern spaceport. The satellite will also return images of earth, and serve as a radio transponder. ESA’s education department launched the SSETI project in 2000. The aim was to get European students involved in real space missions. Students from 23 different universities took part in designing and developing the satellite, with much of the collaborative work being done online. via: theregister

update: pure student projects are apparantly done before (example).

Follow-up post of “building your own satelite for 40,000 euro“.

Tactics to silent bloggers from Forbes.

If this is true… wow!
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The 100 dollar MIT laptop gets even cheaper now Argentina joins in, how long before European countries see the benefits of this kind of scale?

Full article: http://english.ohmynews.com

follow-up post of stone age school materials.

I didn’t know that PDF was 3D enabled and usable.. nice extra adobe!

via frank-ly.