I’m sure most of my tech peeps already know all about this story, but to sum it up in a sentence: last Sunday, Felix Baumgardner rode in a balloon to the edge of space (almost 25 miles above the Earth) and then jumped out of it, breaking the speed of sound before opening his parachute and landing safely in Roswell, New Mexico. The entire thing was broadcast live on the Internet. (I heard this morning that there was a 20 second delay just in case things went terribly wrong, but still.) Yesterday, on my computer, I watched a guy skydive… (read more)