November 2011
15 posts
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LRO Photographs Lunar Missions →
Know anyone that doubts the moon landings? Well, while you’re unlikely to change their tiny little minds, at least you can rest assured we *do* have photographs now. :) (Link is a video podcast.)
We cry out that the 1% have all of our money. Then Black Friday comes and we give them all of our money again.
Perhaps the problem is more systemic than we’re ready to address right now.
Wow, Horns. Just … wow.
City might pay for Friday night, Saturday... →
Woohoo!
Ultimate Pirate Ship Bedroom →
WANT. WANT. WANT.
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Excuses for Not Being in Bed
“I have to go potty.” “You’ve been twice. Go to bed.”
“I heard a noise in your room.” “You heard a car pass. Go to bed.”
“I want water.” “You’ve had three glasses. Go to bed.”
“I want a hot dog.” “Maybe for breakfast. Go to bed.”
“Please read to me.” “I read three...
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“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is...”
– James Nicoll
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“I want to be very clear in calling upon the Egyptian authorities to refrain from...”
– Barack Obama, 28 January 2011
The cat is licking the trash can.
Words fail me.
Come on AT&T
I awoke to no wifi. Tragic enough, I compounded this problem by
willingly subjecting myself to AT&T’s support. You see, the U-Verse
gateway was without power and having tested it on other outlets I
pronounced it dead. Ergo, willful contact with tech support.
Contacting support is different when you know what you’re doing. It’s
even more different when you’ve been...
It’s impossible to tell what’s going on in Shaun the Sheep from another room.
Baaaa.
Consider this: for the same price as five 50” 1080p HDTV sets, I can get a single dental implant. Five high tech, high precision devices shipped around the world to my doorstep, or a piece of metal shoved in a jawbone.
Something is very wrong here.
[NR] Arafiles to serve jail time, surrender... →
If you listen to This American Life at all you may remember an episode earlier this year about two nurses that were harassed by a doctor and a sheriff for reporting the doctor to the Texas Medical Board. You’ll be happy to know the doctor is in jail.
The sheriff is still a free man. (Of course; it’s still Texas after all.)
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Hubble directly observes the disc around a black... →
“The level of detail involved is equivalent to being able to study individual grains of sand on the surface of the Moon while standing on Earth.”