As of tonight, Google calendar has launched!

calendar.google.com is now live and redirects to the real CL2 login screen.

It has the typical Google interface (pretty slick) and looks like a cool application. I’m excited to use it and compare the Google calendar to MS Outlook. I’m glad there’s an import feature where I can import my MS Outlook calendar.

There’s a cool little bar on the upper left hand corner of the screen that links you between google products: search, gmail, calendar. Useful and well placed! Now if that button would only be present throughout Google, that’d be nice. Also, I’m a fan of color coding my events, so I’d like that feature added as well.

Yeah for Google and their Calendar! 🙂 Now we’ll have to see how practical it is. Will it replace my Outlook? Probably not, as that’s what I use for work, but it’ll be good to compare the two.

(Via ZNet Googling Google Blog)

As of tonight, Google calendar has launched!

calendar.google.com is now live and redirects to the real CL2 login screen.

It has the typical Google interface (pretty slick) and looks like a cool application. I’m excited to use it and compare the Google calendar to MS Outlook. I’m glad there’s an import feature where I can import my MS Outlook calendar.

There’s a cool little bar on the upper left hand corner of the screen that links you between google products: search, gmail, calendar. Useful and well placed! Now if that button would only be present throughout Google, that’d be nice. Also, I’m a fan of color coding my events, so I’d like that feature added as well.

Yeah for Google and their Calendar! 🙂 Now we’ll have to see how practical it is. Will it replace my Outlook? Probably not, as that’s what I use for work, but it’ll be good to compare the two.

(Via ZNet Googling Google Blog)

You may recall that Wilmer Valderrama dished on Howard Stern’s Sirius radio show about all of his conquests with Hollywood ladies. Turns out that one of those ladies, Jennifer Love Hewitt, is calling his bluff.

Hewitt responded to Wilmer’s bragging with laughter: “I was told, like, that we had all these very steamy encounters, and I was like, really! Well, I would have loved to have been there!”

Oh the tall tales that are weaved in Hollywood. Makes you wonder what else he said that wasn’t the truth.

(Via Popsugar and Tittle-Tattle)

“Please look your car over for the dent and scratches and when you see them remember not to park in two spaces.”

I caught this post on DoubleViking’s blog. Check out the full note and explanation on Flickr.

(Via DoubleViking)

You may recall that Wilmer Valderrama dished on Howard Stern’s Sirius radio show about all of his conquests with Hollywood ladies. Turns out that one of those ladies, Jennifer Love Hewitt, is calling his bluff.

Hewitt responded to Wilmer’s bragging with laughter: “I was told, like, that we had all these very steamy encounters, and I was like, really! Well, I would have loved to have been there!”

Oh the tall tales that are weaved in Hollywood. Makes you wonder what else he said that wasn’t the truth.

(Via Popsugar and Tittle-Tattle)

“Please look your car over for the dent and scratches and when you see them remember not to park in two spaces.”

I caught this post on DoubleViking’s blog. Check out the full note and explanation on Flickr.

(Via DoubleViking)

A dime and two pennies may not sound like much cash, but when you consider the number of searches perfomed, it really adds up! According to figures gathered by Nielsen/NetRatings, Americans alone did more than 2.7 billion searches on Google in January 2006. So just in Jan 2006, Google made $324 million. Wow, what a cash cow for Google!

For further information, check out the full story courtesy of BBC News.

(Via BBC News)

This is an artist’s concept of Kuiper Belt object 2003 UB313 (the tenth planet, nicknamed “Xena”) and its satellite “Gabrielle.”

From the HubbleSite Newsdesk:

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has resolved the “tenth planet,” nicknamed “Xena” for the first time, and has found that it is only just a little larger than Pluto.

Though previous ground-based observations suggested that Xena was about 30 percent greater in diameter than Pluto, Hubble observations taken on Dec. 9 and 10, 2005, yield a diameter of 1,490 miles (with an uncertainty of 60 miles) for Xena. Pluto’s diameter, as measured by Hubble, is 1,422 miles.

“Hubble is the only telescope capable of getting a clean visible-light measurement of the actual diameter of Xena,” said Mike Brown, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. Brown’s research team discovered Xena, and their results have been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal.

It only required a couple of Hubble images to nail Xena’s diameter. Located 10 billion miles away, but with a diameter that is a little more than half the width of the United States, the object is 1.5 pixels across in Hubble’s view. That’s enough to precisely make a size measurement.

Because Xena is smaller than earlier thought, but comparatively bright, it must be one of the most reflective objects in the solar system. The only object more reflective is Enceladus, a geologically active moon of Saturn whose surface is continuously recoated with highly reflective ice by active geysers.

Xena’s bright reflectivity is possibly due to fresh methane frost overlying the surface. It is possible that Xena had an atmosphere when it was closer to the Sun, but “froze out” at its current large distance, and material settled on its surface as frost.

Another possibility is that Xena is also continuously leaking methane gas from its warmer interior. When this methane makes it to the cold surface it immediately freezes solid, covering craters and other features to make this Kuiper Belt object (KBO) uniformly bright to Hubble’s telescopic eye.

Xena is officially catalogued as 2003 UB313. Its orbital period is about 560 years, and the KBO is now very close to aphelion (the point on its orbit that is farthest from the Sun).

Brown next plans to use Hubble and other telescopes to study other recently discovered KBOs that are almost as large as Pluto and Xena. The Kuiper Belt is a vast ring of primordial icy comets and larger bodies encircling Neptune’s orbit.

Finding that the largest known KBO is a virtual twin to Pluto may only further complicate the debate about whether to categorize the large icy worlds that dwell in the Kuiper Belt as planets. If Pluto were considered to be the minimum size for a planet, then Xena would fulfill this criterion, too.

For more information, contact:
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-4514; E-mail: villard@stsci.edu)

Robert Tindol
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 626-395-3631; E-mail: tindol@caltech.edu or

Mike Brown
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 626-395-8423; E-mail: mbrown@gps.caltech.edu

For a related story, see here.

(Via HubbleSite)

A dime and two pennies may not sound like much cash, but when you consider the number of searches perfomed, it really adds up! According to figures gathered by Nielsen/NetRatings, Americans alone did more than 2.7 billion searches on Google in January 2006. So just in Jan 2006, Google made $324 million. Wow, what a cash cow for Google!

For further information, check out the full story courtesy of BBC News.

(Via BBC News)

This is an artist’s concept of Kuiper Belt object 2003 UB313 (the tenth planet, nicknamed “Xena”) and its satellite “Gabrielle.”

From the HubbleSite Newsdesk:

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has resolved the “tenth planet,” nicknamed “Xena” for the first time, and has found that it is only just a little larger than Pluto.

Though previous ground-based observations suggested that Xena was about 30 percent greater in diameter than Pluto, Hubble observations taken on Dec. 9 and 10, 2005, yield a diameter of 1,490 miles (with an uncertainty of 60 miles) for Xena. Pluto’s diameter, as measured by Hubble, is 1,422 miles.

“Hubble is the only telescope capable of getting a clean visible-light measurement of the actual diameter of Xena,” said Mike Brown, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. Brown’s research team discovered Xena, and their results have been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal.

It only required a couple of Hubble images to nail Xena’s diameter. Located 10 billion miles away, but with a diameter that is a little more than half the width of the United States, the object is 1.5 pixels across in Hubble’s view. That’s enough to precisely make a size measurement.

Because Xena is smaller than earlier thought, but comparatively bright, it must be one of the most reflective objects in the solar system. The only object more reflective is Enceladus, a geologically active moon of Saturn whose surface is continuously recoated with highly reflective ice by active geysers.

Xena’s bright reflectivity is possibly due to fresh methane frost overlying the surface. It is possible that Xena had an atmosphere when it was closer to the Sun, but “froze out” at its current large distance, and material settled on its surface as frost.

Another possibility is that Xena is also continuously leaking methane gas from its warmer interior. When this methane makes it to the cold surface it immediately freezes solid, covering craters and other features to make this Kuiper Belt object (KBO) uniformly bright to Hubble’s telescopic eye.

Xena is officially catalogued as 2003 UB313. Its orbital period is about 560 years, and the KBO is now very close to aphelion (the point on its orbit that is farthest from the Sun).

Brown next plans to use Hubble and other telescopes to study other recently discovered KBOs that are almost as large as Pluto and Xena. The Kuiper Belt is a vast ring of primordial icy comets and larger bodies encircling Neptune’s orbit.

Finding that the largest known KBO is a virtual twin to Pluto may only further complicate the debate about whether to categorize the large icy worlds that dwell in the Kuiper Belt as planets. If Pluto were considered to be the minimum size for a planet, then Xena would fulfill this criterion, too.

For more information, contact:
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-4514; E-mail: villard@stsci.edu)

Robert Tindol
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 626-395-3631; E-mail: tindol@caltech.edu or

Mike Brown
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 626-395-8423; E-mail: mbrown@gps.caltech.edu

For a related story, see here.

(Via HubbleSite)