The random linkfest continues.

Dr. Kahle sent me the obituary of Bill Millin, a Scottish piper who played as the Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of France. It's a pretty amazing story.

Some impressive imagery starts with a snaphot of an aurora over the skies of Norway that's just incredible. Follow that with a really nice video of time-lapse photography:

If you find that interesting, here's a series of time-lapse sequences shot from space.

On to space: the Pioneeer anomaly continues to perplex scientists, and the list of reasonable explanations continues to dwindle. New physics? Maybe. But fascinating nonetheless.