My Friend, Steve Fossett
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Richard Branson pays tribute to a lost adventurer, who soared to new heights and took us along for the ride
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ItÂs a known fact that when Salman is your friend, he will go out of the way to help him out.
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Man's best friend could also be a  lifesaver in the fight against cancer.
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QUESTION: Mr. Powell, we are honored with this opportunity to be with you. Thank you very much.
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RENO, Nevada  - The search for missing U.S.  adventurer Steve Fossett resumed on Wednesday as his friend,  British billionaire Richard Branson, tried to find him through  a satellite mapping service offered by Google.
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I once thought that worrying about what we should broadcast to extraterrestrials made as much sense as fretting over the small talk I'd venture with King Carl XVI Gustaf if I won the Nobel Prize. I reckoned there was no need to dwell on the problem, as it was both hypothetical and irrelevant.
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BELIEVE it or not, I still have personal friends who are ardent Zanu PF supporters with whom I socialize now and then. With one of them however, our political differences were beginning to affect our personal relationship.
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Satellite imaging program allows computer users to join search for missing aviator Steve Fossett.
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Would you buy a used spaceship from this guy? How about a few spare parts to pimp your rocket?
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RENO, Nevada  - The search for missing U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett resumed on Wednesday as his friend, British billionaire Richard Branson, tried to find him through a satellite mapping service offered by Internet data provider Google.
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Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who has cheated death time and again in his successful pursuit of aviation records, was missing Tuesday after taking off in a single-engine plane the day before to scout locations for a land-speed record, officials said.
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I HAVE been spending quite a few of my nights with George W. Bush in recent years.
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When we first met it was love at first sight!  I loved that you were so open minded about my geeky friends who had patches that I needed.  You were a breath of fresh air and and made my development life so simple.  For the longest time we had a great love affair.  I remember my first anoncvs patch I generated with your help and I was hooked.  I remember the first time you sent me a diff against my own repository from another developer.  What a sweet gesture!  You were so kind.  Since then though you've started to let me down.  What happened to you?  In your old age you've become confused when I've tried to share you with others.  You often can't make up your mind when I try to branch and mer ...
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Reader Llyod sends us a picture of his friend with the actor.
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My friend Steve called me in a panic. Seems he and his girlfriend are divided over one important issue. He (a chef) always selects fresh produce for his cooking. She says frozen is better. "Can you help us?" he asks.  Yes ... no ... maybe.
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The man behind Space Ship 1 brought his love of adventure to the University of Texas on Friday. Burt Rutan spoke to students about space tourism.
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(InfoWorld) - Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk is enlisting human eyes to help in an online search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett. Mechanical Turk is a Web service hosted by Amazon that lets anyone combine human intelligence with computer programs. The site aims to make up for a specific failure that persists in computers. "Humans still significantly outperform the most powerful computers at completing such simple tasks as identifying objects in photographs -- something children can do even before they learn to speak," the site explains. Friends of Fossett have set up a project on Mechanical Turk that could help identify the location of his airplane. Fossett set out in the plane in Nevada on Sept. 3 and hasn't been heard from since. Anyone can visit the Mechanical Turk site and lend a hand. Instructions on the page ask participants to view satellite images within Google Earth of the region where Fossett is thought to be. If they see anything that might resemble the airplane, they can mark the satellite image as containing an object that should be looked at more closely. Participants are asked to mark an image if they are at all suspicious that it contains something of interest. The project also cautions people not to worry that missing a detail will be tragic, because many people will look at the same image. Marked images will be further examined by experts. Mechanical Turk was also enlisted in the hunt for Jim Gray, a prominent computer scientist who went missing after setting off on his sail boat earlier this year. He has not been found. The Fossett effort also includes airplane and helicopter searchers. Fossett is well-known for being the first person to fly a plane solo around the world without refueling and also for making it around the world in a balloon. He has set 115 world records or world firsts, has swum the English Channel and completed the Iditarod, a dog sled race in Alaska, according to his Web site. While people helping to hunt for Fossett and Gray are volunteers, other Mechanical Turk projects pay participants, usually less than $0.25 per task. Mechanical Turk isn't the only online service that relies on human intelligence. ChaCha.com, a search engine launched last year, uses human "guides" to provide search results. A user inserts a search term and a remote worker searches for the answer, sending links to Web pages back to the user. The guide may be an expert in the subject the user is searching for so may be able to find better results than other search engines, according to ChaCha. Mahalo.com is another search site that uses people to compile results for common search terms. Workers weed out spam sites, pages with overbearing advertising and sites that use information without giving appropriate credit to the source.