Day: August 10, 2006

Offi­cials in charge of the Woodrow Wil­son Bridge Replace­ment in Wash­ing­ton, DC are hold­ing a writ­ing con­test to see who will get to push the but­ton for demolosh­ing the old bridge. The per­son who had the worst com­mute will win.

The world’s sec­ond largest ice cap may be melt­ing three times faster than indi­cat­ed by pre­vi­ous mea­sure­ments, accord­ing to new­ly released grav­i­ty data col­lect­ed by satellites.

Major League Base­ball strikes out in a case that looked at whether inde­pen­dent fan­ta­sy sports sites could freely use sta­tis­tics and oth­er play­er data.
Fan­ta­sy sports are now a multi­bil­lion-dol­lar indus­try, thanks in no small part to the Internet.

Space­port Amer­i­ca is under con­struc­tion in some of the most des­o­late real estate in New Mex­i­co. But it may soon become the launch pad for com­mer­cial space travel.