I can’t even make up something as ludicrous as “Kidsbeer”:http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20050806a1.htm. Of course, I was a big fan of bubble gum cigarettes as a kid, so I probably shouldn’t throw stones.
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where in the world was ISS?
My current desktop background is a large, beautiful “photo of the ISS soaring over the Earth”:http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/multimedia/fd12_gallery.html, taken by the crew of Discovery. I love the photo, but one aspect of it bugs me: where is it? There are definitely enough landmarks to figure that out (a river, a bay, an atoll off the coast), but the lack of any scale or orientation has made it a real toughie.
Does anyone have an idea where it is? Backing up your claim with a Google Maps URL would be ideal.
stop that baby!
Meanwhile, back in the police state…
Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports throughout the U.S. because their names are the same as or similar to those of possible terrorists on the government’s “no-fly list.”
I don’t have to make this stuff up, folks.
Justice, Cole Valley Style
So, what do _you_ do when you witness a hit-and-run? Leave a note? Curse under your breath? “Snap a photo and print posters for the whole neighborhood”:http://www.powazek.com/2005/07/000534.html? A little luck and a little technology helped Derek Powazek go straight for the posters, and I personally hope this is a prelude to a “transparent society”:http://www.davidbrin.com/tschp1.html.
grumble science religion grumble
I was hoping to let it go without comment, but the “latest insinuation that Intelligent Design has merit”:http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1089733,00.html astounds me. Not that it comes from the President, but rather that it caused me to agree with a “Charles Krauthammer opinion piece”:http://www.time.com/time/columnist/krauthammer/article/0,9565,1088869,00.html. I’m shocked.