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Monday, 30 January 2006
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no, i didn’t mean to write “track suit” :-) the astronauts on the ISS will be releasing a used astronaut’s spacesuit filled with a radio and sensors into orbit. according to NASA’s suitsat page explains how the russian cosmonauts came up with the idea of stuffing “three batteries, a radio transmitter, and internal sensors to measure temperature and battery power” into used (and, one assumes, retired) spacesuits. using a police scanner (hmm, now, who’d have one of those?) or a ham radio one can tune in: 145.990 MHz FM :-)

now, if we could just release all suits into space…

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just watched BBC1’s insideout, especially a feature about the “development” of london’s portobello road. “development” in quotes because it’s really about driving out old, established small shops and businesses to increase the yield through rents that are 100% higher and can only be afforded by the big chain stores (just noticed that my hands wanted to write “chain saws”…fitting, though, as these chain stores just mercilessly cut through established societal fabrics, destroying local culture and colour wherever they appear). the term the presenter sumi bose used was clonetowns — very appropriate!