A very, very sad story to report today.. CNN is reporting that Mister Rogers, everyone's favorite singing child psychologist (and dear friend), died this morning at his house in Pittsburgh, of the stomach cancer he had been battling.
The Good Morning Silicon Valley newsletter (by John Paczkowski this morning mentioned two articles mentioning a mysterious glowing purple object that appears in an image taken by an amateur astronomer in the SF Bay Area, seven minutes before the shuttle disintegrated. The image is thought to NASA to coincide with the moment sensors first detected heat buildup in the shuttle's wheel wells, which soon led to massive system failure.