One of the top stories yesterday was how NASA and Japan have released the data from their ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) satellite on the Internet – for free.
In the summer of 1689, the poet Matsuo Basho left the port town of Sakata in Yamagata Prefecture and traveled north along the Sea of Japan. His destination: Kisakata, an inlet dotted with 100 or so ...