z33.org … sharing the love one nibble at a time.

Damn nice to see someone has finally packaged RPMs of the Java-Gnome bindings for Fedora Core 2 & 3, Debian, and other distros.

BTW: It was necessary to explicitly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib in order to run the java-gnome examples from Eclipse. This was easy to do from the Run dialog’s Environment tab.

Karlos! Your trees are flourishing in Los Angeles.

I’ll be making three of these bad boys in the next couple days.

Pumpkin Cheesecake, courtesy Dr. David Brock.

2 C Gingersnap crumbs

1/3 C melted unsalted butter

3 x 8 ox pkgs cream cheese

1 C sugar

1/2 C brown sugar

3 lg. eggs

1 x 15 oz can pumpkin

1/4 C heavy cream

1 T vanilla

1 t cinnamon

1 t ground ginger

1/2 t nutmeg

2 C sour cream

Butter and flour a 10″ springform pan

Mix butter & gingersnaps, press in pan

Bake 12 min. at 325

Mix cream cheese, 3/4 C of the sugar, and the brown sugar, then eggs

one at a time.

Combine pumpkin, cream, 1 t vanilla, spices, then add to the cream

cheese mixture.

Wrap foil around pan and up sides. Pour in batter, set in roasting

pan, pour some hot water into roasting pan.

Bake 70 minutes at 350, until edges firm and center shaky.

Combine sour cream with 1/4 c sugar, 2t vanilla, pour over cake,

bake 10 min more. Cool 1 hr and refrigerate 4 hrs.

Nummy.

Why would you want to know more about the sun? Because it’s the closest *actual* thing there is to god for those of us that call Earth home.

• spaceweather.com – checkout sun spot and the helioseismological image “The Far Side of the Sun” feature.
• Photospheric Features
• Chromospheric Features

On thing I’ve always like about the NBA as opposed to say the NHL is that the games are actually played, not fought. So I’m sad to see The NBA is *NOT* banning this guy from the league, but instead simply suspending him for the rest of the season.

The ever expanding pleasures of archive.org….

Slashdot.org Dec 21, 1997

“Snorter”, “Snorgler”, or “John Sununu”

Ask-A-Scientist Archive has hundreds of ASTRONOMY questions and answers (mostly simple, but lotsa fun), including:

• Size of the Sun
• Beyond the Universe
• and more…