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For the 1999 solar eclipse, you had three choices if you wanted to see it. The first was to look directly at the sun and take a chance at burning your retina (some people glimpsed for less than a second anyway and luckily that doesn't seem to have done any long term damage). The second was to take a piece of cardboard, punch a hole in it and project an image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground. The third choice was the one I opted for, watch it on TV!

Cosmic - the last date with all odd numbers (in our lifetime anyway) occurs today. Unless you're Buck Rogers or Fry from Futurama, it's unlikely you'll see the next one which occurs on the 1st of January, 3111. The next date with all even numbers will be the 2nd of February, 2000 (there hasn't been an all-even date since the 28th of August, 888).

TG4 are working on a full set of teletext pages, a preview of which can be seen on the channel at the moment. Previous to this, TnaG only offered a subtitles service on page 888.

Looks like the great 208 will be making a return shortly...

Amazing news: the late lamented Radio Luxembourg is returning to medium wave 1440 kHz! Once the favorite station of pop music-starved listeners across Northern and Western Europe, the station closed in December, 1992, in an ill-fated early satellite experiment. CLT-UFA says the revived channel will have studios in both Luxembourg and London, and besides 1440 kHz, will also transmit via analog and digital satellite and via the Internet. The relaunch is scheduled for "early November".

I was away for the final GI game last night (06/06/99) against LSD, so since I have _the power_, I decided to check in to the server this morning and see if the score was recorded in the server logs. Doing a search for LSD, I came across this snippet on Q2WAR2...