Sunday, February 15, 2004

Comet season

Comet C/2002 T7 is now visible through binoculars in a clear sky. Spaceweather says it might reach the first magnatude (about the same as a bright star) by May. Comet NEAT offers similar promise.

I've noticed that all the great recent comets seem to show up in Spring: Ikeya-Zhang, Hale-Bopp, Hyakutake, West. Must be a reason.

Dave Slusher wants us to Technorati-bomb his friend Craig Clevenger's The Contortionist Handbook. The idea is to push the book up Technorati's brand-new list of Top products discussed in the last 24 hours. Seems to be working. The book is number two right now.

Speaking of which, Tim Oren had some nice things to say about Technorati's David Sifry at eTech last week.

I'll be hanging with David, Scoble, Buzz and other familiars here at Demo for the next three days.