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My dad, Norman Weibel, who is an American Legion chaplain and does weddings in California’s Inland Empire has a new website! Beware the music (it can be turned off at the bottom of the page).

Posted by Deana in Oddly Enough, Religion, Rites o' passage, Shameless Promotion, Shopping on August 29th, 2007 | Comments Off

I have never in my life taken a physics course, so this may be obvious to other people who have. Parts of this article explaining relativity using only words with four or fewer words make sense to me and parts don’t. The stuff near the end is really hard for me to understand, but I [...]

Posted by Deana in Science on August 26th, 2007 | 7 Comments »

I’ve been catching up on space things in preparation for the Mars Society Convention next week. Today I ran across an exciting summary of the progress that SpaceX has made toward launching their next Falcon 1 rocket as well as their much larger Falcon 9 rocket. According to the “monster progress update“, the next launch [...]

Posted by Chris in Space on August 25th, 2007 | Comments Off

I’ve been looking for a few choice keywords to describe what we talk about here at Global Spin. You know, “science, culture, politics, writing, foolishness” kind of thing. One of the places I checked was Compete, which offered the oddest suggestion yet: “important punctuation.” So, yeah. I just had to Google it. There on page [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, Plain foolishness on August 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’m just about running out of awe lately. It’s like awesome things are showering down from the sky, perhaps in an attempt to counteract all the craptacular things that we are usually made aware of. So you can imagine that I started reading this article about the wonders of aerogel with a depleted awe supply. [...]

Posted by Chris in Science, Space, Technology on August 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »