blarg?

I am going to demolish your bandwidth today. I am going to crush
it under my link-hobnailed jackboots. Every one of these links is going to put a dent in your bandwidth between two to forty-five megabytes deep, and if it doesn’t it’s a link to a directory full of things that will. I’m going to make your broadband whimper, and I promise that if you’re a geek like me, you’re going to love every minute of it. If you’re still one of those 56k lepers, this magic is not meant for you. Close your browser and go outside; harvest the year’s crops or re-shoe the pigs or whatever else it is you do when you’re waiting for floppy-sized snacks to dribble into your demodulator. Don’t even bother with the rest of this entry, is what I’m saying.

The rest of you, try this on for size. The 530-error problems seem to have solved themselves.

I’ve talked about the href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html">Astronomy
Picture Of The Day before, but it turns out that NASA is a lot
more going on than just that. Specifically, their headquarters’
entire FTP site is available
for public consumption.

They have pictures
of href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/users2/pao/images/zvezda/04_protonrollout_72.jpg">Russian href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/users2/pao/images/zvezda/11_zvesdadelivery_72.jpg">rockets
being href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/users2/pao/images/zvezda/12_protonlaunch_72.jpg">launched,
promotional
movies and href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/users2/pao/images/boommovi.mov">big balloons and href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/users2/pao/images/mars2003/mars/water_mars.jpg">evidence of
water
on href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/users2/pao/images/mars2003/mars/water_mars.jpg">Mars, they have pictures
from the Dante Project and the spur of the Matterhorn and great pics of Soyuz and other rockets taking off, projects in mid-assembly
and early deployment, the list goes on.

They have incredibly sexy pictures of href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/users2/pao/images/mars2003/rover2003/marsrover.jpg">the
Mars Rover (including some huge href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/users2/pao/images/mars2003/rover2003/03rover4.tif">hi-res
.tif
files of the same), a 20-meg zip file full of MIR-y
goodness, and a sweet href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/pub/factbook/%2522The%2520Other%2520Side%2522%2520971223.JPEG">pic
of The Earth hidden among the href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/pub/factbook/">gzipped factbooks and
other zipped or href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/movies/top10_2000/">otherwise
available movies. ( href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/movies/rover_t1.mov">So,
so sexy. href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/reports/2004/hits/Pictures/">So
much nerd porn. Shiver.)

Be
still
my
heart.

Insanely, it looks like their entire href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/pub/ytdls/email_list.txt.txt">e-mail
list is online
as well. I don’t know what I should do about that, since they’re
probably watching
me right now, but I’m href="ftp://kenny.public.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/statrpt/MPIAT/MPIAT_status_20Jan.txt">not
worried.

Jamie, Sean, Geofford, this is for you guys.