NASCAR just released the 2008 schedule for the top “cup” series, now known as the “Sprint Cup”. Some notable changes from last year include: With Coors now the official beer sponsor, the future of the “Bud Shootout” is not clear The Chicago race in July will be run on Saturday night (new lights will be installed at the speedway) The weekends off will be moved around slightly Next season will mark the 50th anniversary of the Daytona 500 and we’re going this year! Date Track 2/9/2008 Daytona International Speedway (Budwesier Shootout) 2/17/2008 Daytona International Speedway 2/24/2008 California Speedway 3/2/2008 Las…
Flickr Picture Credit Champ Car this week announced that the annual race through the streets of downtown San José is no more. Instead, the series will return to Laguna Seca, so true racing fans should be excited. San José was always of split minds when it came to the three races run so far. The city subsidies combined with some questionable data provided by the race organizers seemed to doom the long term success of this particular race. SpeedTV.com has more details.
Update: For the most current data (all of 2008), please see Top Mobile Websites for 2008. With a recent spike in interest in my mobile website list, I wanted to take a look at the most popular links. For the past 8 months, I’ve been using MyBlogLog to help capture not just page views, but keeping track of which links are the most popular. I haven’t had a chance to dig deeper into the community aspects of MyBlogLog, but the Javascript click tracking is very helpful. It won’t track any mobile browsers for which Javascript is disabled or not present,…
Last week the New York Times Technology section had a brief “Q&A” about mobile websites and pointed to my mobile website list as a good starting point. My neighbor who gets the Times delivered noticed it and was the first to let me know. I got a decent bump in traffic for the blog last week, so hopefully I’ll pick up a few new readers as a result!
In addition to the DC-10 air tanker that’s been getting a lot of press, we also have a new NASA drone aircraft called Ikhana helping out with California wildfires by using advanced thermal-infrared imagery to give firefighters a more accurate picture of fire activity on the ground. Today’s Mercury News reports: Ikhana, NASA’s pilotless aircraft, flew over the 47,000-acre Lick fire for the first time, transmitting images and information to firefighters below as they battled the blaze into Saturday evening. “They used that to facilitate their planning for the day’s firefighting,” said Vince Ambrosio, NASA Ames’s principal investigator on the…