The Kickelhahn - the mountain being Ilmenau's town landmark - is covered with some snow. So it can't take too long any more until we get snow here in Ilm itself. It's already constantly below 5° Celcius here since some days.

See your web-site visitors on a map:
http://clustrmaps.com/index.htm
Need to hack TikiMaps...... ;)

I somehow lost my brigthStars background.. hmm, perhaps it only shows at night? We'll see.. ;)

Since currently the moon is a little hard to get into a picture with a reasonably sized earth, I fell back to a command-line from the XPlanet homepage. It shows the eclipse of December 4, 2002, as seen from the Sun at 6 AM UTC. My shot has additionally the moon-orbit projected as well as the ISS including its orbit and projection onto the earth:
http://amette.ground.cz/shoots/index.php?shoot=2005-11-17-12-29
Well, the cloud cover isn't real for sure (it's of course the current cloud cover as it is now ;) ).

For absolutely astonishing shots of XPlanet, see:
http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/Gallery/

I'll post some more, when there are good pictures here! :)

And you can Nutch the commons! What's nutch, btw? Never heard of that search engine..
Well, nevertheless, it's good to see, that there isn't no more only Yahoo at the Creative Commons Search Engine.

.. yup, somehow the stuff isn't really interesting enough to get posted here. But for your enjoyment, I try to make up with this little text I found in a learning pause:

Gnome vs KDE Development