Henry Cate's experiment seems to be thriving. Emily Lakdawalla (about whom I'm always curious as to what country of origin her last name is) is hosting this week's edition.

Regarding Emily Lakdawalla's last name, she posted this very funny explanation on unmannedspaceflight.com:

(From http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/lofiversion/index.php/t2713.html halfway down the page)

"May 6 2006, 04:35 PM
It's Indian (my husband's a Parsi). "walla" is a term for a seller of something, so you see all kinds of -wallas among his community; Motiwalla, Daruwalla, even, and I am completely serious about this, Sodawaterwalla. Stupid British; the Parsis didn't have surnames until the British came in and said "What! What! Of course you must have surnames." The Parsis made up surnames either from their cities of origin or their occupations (There are also lots of "Contractors" and "Engineers" among the Parsis). "Lakdawalla" is timber-merchant; the Parsis were majorly into shipbuilding. I have heard what may be urban legends about the surnames "Waysidepetrolstationwalla" and even "Sodawaterbottleopenerwalla". I can't vouch for the veracity of those but I have actually met a Sodawaterwalla.

--Emily