http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-human.html#galaxyzoo Help Galaxy Zoo classify over one million newly-discovered galaxies. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is completing a detailed optical survey of over 1/4 of the sky and is generating a 3-dimensional map of over one million galaxies and quasars. Most of these galaxies have not been classified. Computers are not able to classify them easily, but humans are good at classifying them visually.

http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-human.html#marspolarlander Help Looking for Mars Polar Lander find the Mars Polar Lander, which crashed in 1999, by studying high-resolution images of the surface of Mars from the area scientists predicted the lander crashed in. If the lander is found, studying the condition of the lander may help determine the cause of its crash.

http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-science.html#orbitathome Help orbit@home “monitor the impact hazard posed by Near Earth Objects.” The project uses the Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis (ORSA) framework.

http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-science.html#setiathome Search for extra-terrestrial radio signals at SETI@home.

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I (Hour Destiny) was watching someone do a challenge at this booth and they couldn’t beat it. I told the people hosting the challenge how to beat it, so they setup a different one and challenged me to beat it. A woman standing near approached me, introduced herself as working for TechTarget, and said that she was looking for a “victim” to film for their blog. I consented to be her “victim” and she filmed the challenge.

My prize was called a “Network Macgyver survival kit” and looked like a mini lunchbox and inside was a piece of Bazooka Joe bubble gum (for keeping fans from blowing papers away), some duct tape, a shoelace
(for cable management), a network cable, a rack mount screw, and a paper clip (for CDs jammed in a drive).

Interop is an IT conference every year in May in Las Vegas. I got to spend 3 days at this one. Stayed at the Excalibur and had a 42″ plasma TV in the room. I brought so much stuff back (including 34 pens of different kinds), I couldn’t believe it. I even won an iPod Shuffle. I also brought back some software, 2 decks of Microsoft playing cards, a remote control, a tape measure/calculator/notepad, a jogging radio/compass, a boomerang, a Rubix’s cube, retractable earbuds, flashing LED dice, a wall-crawler in the shape of a brain, a screwdriver with a level in it, a multi-purpose screwdriver with multiple bits in the handle, a couple yo-yo’s, have a dozen T-shirts (including one in the shape of a throwing star), a head-bobber, and lots more.

I also mentioned Second Life(tm) and Space Destiny(tm) to some of the exhibitors and found that a couple of them are in SL.