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I came across the Heinlein archives the other day and was quite astounded. Basically it looks like pretty much everything Robert A Heinlein ever wrote has been scanned, PFD'ed and uploaded. If you want to look at any of it you can. There's a price of course but at $3 for around 200 pages it's pretty reasonable. It would cost a lot to get everything but if, say, you really wanted to read everything he wrote for the movie Destination Moon then for $20 you get:

• Part 1 includes "10 pages of diagrams and calculations about moon flight", "Heinlein’s report on faults and flaws in the script of Destination Moon addressed to George Pal, lengthy with extensive hand-edits", "17 pages, single-spaced by RAH “The Care and Feeding of Spaceships” discussing technical elements for film"
• Part 2 includes "Article in Aviation Week about movie", "1957 letter from an attorney to RAH about possible money from the movie (talks about law suits)", "Notes, calculations and diagrams working out the moon flight and landing. Studio call sheets and shooting schedules for the production"
• Parts 3 to 6 are 5 versions of the script
• Part 7 includes articles about the movie

Alternatively if the history of Stranger in a Strange Land is more your thing then you can get 3865 pages for $38 that include 3 different edits of the book plus supporting articles.

Personally I just always thought that Pixel (a.k.a. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls) was a great name for a cat.

So this comic from Boing Boing is amusing for the Unix geek. But I was rather taken by this one for the movie/physics geek.

I've come across a few interesting things today related to maps and pictures. Most recently I see (via Slashdot) that Google Maps has introduced a new feature allowing you to see satellite imagery overlaid with the map data. Here is where we live (almost).

Other interesting links are

• Geograph
• Get-a-map from the Ordnance Survey
• Geobloggers

Spamalot looks very promising indeed. Of course, even assuming it's a success, it'll take years to get to the West End (just look at The Producers) and it won't have the cast it's got in the US.

Looks like they might have nicked songs from the other fiilms though - unless it's just for the website.

An article on slashdot about the new browser wars somehow led to a reference to a more interesting article about the VCR wars describing the probable reasons why Betamax lost to VHS.