Daily Archives: 10/19/2004

Podcast #23, Go Sox!

Red Sox Win Game 6, 4-2!Wherein your host is once again proven wrong and the Sox go on to fight another day.

Other items of interest:

  • Curt Schilling — hero of the game. Ob. trivia: I believe that Schilling is the current major league player with the most at-bats without getting his first career home run.
  • Stellarium — a realistic sky simulator
  • Asterisk — an open source VOIP PBX
  • Aftermath of Jon Stewart’s appearance on the reality show that is Crossfire.

    • To Tucker Carlson: you should thank Jon for breathing life into the corpse that is your show.

Stellarium

Realistic ViewView with ConstellationsToday’s cool bit of software is Stellarium: a realistic sky simulator available for both Windows and Linux and Mac OS X (thanks mneptok!). While it is unlikely to fufill the needs of a serious observer of the heavens, it is a dead simple application which provides beautiful views of both the day and night skies. It is supposed to have over 120,000 stars in its database, but the catalog itself seems fairly weak to me: it didn’t seem to have appropriate double star data. But if you are just a skygazer or you frequently scan the sky with small telescopes or binoculars, this program might be just what you are looking for.