Another reason I love Ballard

Last Updated on Monday, 9 June 2008 08:51 Written by Steve Monday, 9 June 2008 08:50

Seen on my Sunday long run.

Van Jones on Colbert April 1!

Last Updated on Monday, 31 March 2008 09:09 Written by Steve Monday, 31 March 2008 09:07

Van Jones, the founder of Green for All, and current ONE/Northwest client, will be on The Colbert Report tomorrow night! We’re setting up our DVR’s and frantically trying to launch their new site on something more robust than shared hosting as we speak…

Tune in to find out about Van and the great stuff he’s doing with Green for All!

Stellarium: open source planetarium for your computer

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 February 2008 09:54 Written by Steve Thursday, 28 February 2008 09:54

Because Microsoft is going to launch a planetarium product soon, I heard about an open source package called Stellarium. It’s a cross platform piece of software that shows you the sky and a lets you navigate through it. It’s pretty cool, especially if you have a Mac and kids who expect you to know the names of stars in the sky.

During the lunar eclipse last week, we were outside looking at the stars. I was trying to navigate using a star chart in a book and saw a red star that I couldn’t quite place. After 2 minutes on Stellarium, I realized that we had been looking at Mars, a fact that would have sent Malcolm through the roof had I know it at the time. I can’t wait for the next clear night!