For the curious, my "where were you?" answers...

...are located here, about a year and 3 months ago.

adding

#14) 14. When Columbia disintegrated during re-entry over Texas. (February 1, 2003)
Cyd woke me up. I wasn't really shaken by it, being i suppose so much older than before, and considerably more cynical...doesn't mean it didn't suck, just that as an older person who's seen more, it just didn't shake me.

Political cartoons on a subject the gov didn't want us to see...

are located here. I'd post a highlight, but all of them are good.

Lord of the Rings Super-Soundtrack in the planning stages

The soundtrack CDs for The Lord of the Rings movies are going the way of DVDs, featuring "extras" not heard in the theatrical versions, Britain's "Empire Magazine" reported Friday. Composer-conductor Howard Shore told the magazine that plans are in the works for a nine-disk set of music from the film, eight of them featuring the music from the theatrical versions and a ninth featuring "rare unreleased music" with commentary by Shore. Shore also indicated that he's hoping that the DVD of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King will also include a 45-minute documentary about the making of the Rings symphony and a performance with the Montreal Symphony. Shore, who currently is performing the symphony on a world tour, told Empire: "I don't think there's ever been a full concert piece of this size devoted to one particular film or series."

source: imdb.

Well, I kinda said it might happen, and it looks like it will. Groovus.

Nasa's next mission: Saturn!

over here is nasa's home page for the Cassini-Huygens project, a probe on its way to saturn, with the huygens half (named for christian huygens, the dutchman who correctly theorized that the rings were made of ice chunks) to do a landing on Titan, the first landing of a probe on another planet's moon.

the Titan part (if the probe doesn't hit the same problems that cursed so many of the mars landers) should be the most fascinating. spectrographic analysis shows that the clouds of Titan are amino acids, the building blocks of proteins (and by extension, life itself). one wonders what it would be like to be rained on by life itself...