Links for 2006-08-24

• NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Pluto: Overview Once known as the smallest, coldest, and most distant planet from the Sun, Pluto has a dual identity, not to mention being enshrouded in controversy since its discovery in 1930.
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Q&A: Pluto's planetary demotion The distant world discovered in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh will be given a secondary status - that of "dwarf planet".
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Pluto loses status as a planet Astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.
• ONDotnet.com -- Using Amazon's New Web Services A useful starter to using Amazon's Web Services from VB.