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Found a space connection :) Long-haul sufferers will appreciate these NASA findings: http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/travel/a-battle-plan-for-jet-lag.html

I just saw this on a plane. By 'saw' I mean it was on the screen when I glanced up. It took about five seconds to know it wasn't worth watching. It looked like a pointless and ugly film. I know not everyone shares my taste in cinema here, but that's my caveat anyway.

Just survived my worst. 27 hours in transit, 32 hours without sleep. Felt like I was going to breakdown at the end. I had 'sea legs' walking around my hotel room. I've never had that from flying before. The upshot was that as I arrived at my final destination at midnight I managed to go to...

My apologies, a new version has been on my to-do list for a long time and these problems had escaped my attention. I'm away from home until late September so I've simply removed the add-on from Orbit Hangar. At least that will put an end to these recurring reports. I'll re-upload a new version...

I can understand your objections, and it's a real shame if Baikonur veterans were offended. I'm sorry to hear that. That said, this is an art film and to that end the depiction of spacefaring is almost strictly aesthetic. I was even surprised when I recognised the Bondarenko incident to...

Wow, I'm really disappointed you had this reaction. Did you think it was too indulgent? Some of it is heavy handed in its style. Do you like Tarkovsky?

I trust this post is qualitative enough to justify the necropost! Emphatically, yes. Not sure how this one passed me by until now, but I saw this great Russian film tonight. It follows a doctor assigned to the Soviet space program before Gagarin's flight and depicts some of the events...

The USA wins the gold medal for engineering!

Another former Amiga 500 user here (as per my profile :) ). I had wanted a C64 and begged my parents but it took them a few years to come around, by which time the Amiga was the big thing. My introduction to flight simulation was Interceptor in 1988: I often argued the superiority of the...

That's interesting - you defied the common experience of jet lag which is worsened when travelling east. From an Australian government website:

Best = United Airlines Melbourne (AU) to SFO via Sydney. Super-friendly, funny and attentive service. Worst = US internal flights. The rule that anything you take on board that can't be stored overhead gets checked for free inspires some appalling behaviour by American passengers. Qantas...

Awesome bike! I've been drooling over carbon bikes lately but I can't justify the expense until I ride my dorkcycle a lot more.

The cycling road race was a nice instance of lesser emphasis on nationalism. All the riders are used to working together on their trans-national trade teams and some of this cooperation was on display - eg. GB's Cavendish slipstreaming his usual Austrian team mate. Of course they're happy to...

I'm not a real world pilot but after seeing sailplanes in flight earlier this year I've spent a lot of time reading and thinking about them (and 100+ hours in condor). Hopefully I can take some gliding lessons before too long. The photo of gliders on the grid is from the gallery of the WGC...

It's true Froome could have won those stages. But could he have closed a 03' 21'' gap and extended his own? That gap didn't come about because he was made to wait up for Wiggins on those occasions. I think Wiggins demonstrated his overall superiority on the time trials. But Froome will win it...

Here's an alternative (or compliment) to the Olympics for the air-minded. The World Gliding Championship, held every two years, is starting this weekend at Uvalde, Texas. Teams from 24 nations will duel it out over the desert, flying tasks of several hundred Kilometers at speeds of up to...

Given the stage winners and race leader are tested every day I think it's more likely that a guy further down the standings will dope than the guys at the top. Although recent history says you are right to be skeptical.

Unbelievable news - Franck Schleck is out after failing a doping test! He showed traces of a diuretic that is sometimes used to mask the presence of other drugs. For something nicer, check out part two of the Big Picture's photo-coverage...

Dramatic stage 14! Some idiot threw tacks on the road causing multiple punctures across the field. Cadel punctured three times in the space of a few minutes (twice on the back tire and once on the front) and Wiggins had to replace his bike. Worse still Croation rider Robert Kiserlovski crashed...

This is a shame but there is always someone. On the topic of doping, I do think however that Lance Armstrong is innocent - for two reasons. Firstly the guy has extraordinary physical attributes, such as an aerobic capacity almost double a normal adult which might account for some of his...