Twitpic of space shuttle landing
I would just like to comment on the epistemological and socio-cultural implications of receiving a Twitpic of this moment, fresh from an astronaut at NASA, on my TweetDeck.
That is all.
You know it. I know it. We all know it.
Also: is this Mars, or the Canadian Shield?
The God of War is female? Not news to anyone who’s been reading raincoaster!
I know we at the ol’ raincoaster blog have oft (and justly, perhaps) been accused of tastelessness, particularly around the subject of profound loss. To that we plead guilty, but we are not entirely without hearts (not even counting the ones in the freezer). If you bleed us, are we not pricks?
We are bloggers.
But we have weaknesses, we have feelings, we have tender moments, and not just because of the sunburn. There are some things about which we do not joke.
Gin.
Operation Global Media Domination.
And Pluto.
Too soon, man. Just too soon.
Poor, poor Stephen Hawking. You know Stephen Hawking: media personality, author of A Brief History of Time
Why should you pity him? Because his life is in imminent danger!
A no-doubt-soon-to-be-unemployed editorial writer at Investor’s Business Daily is strongly of the impression that the brilliant British physicist owes his life to having been born and raised in the Good Old U. S. of A.
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.
via TheVanityPress
Let us not disturb baby’s dreams. It would only be cruel. After all, the poor boy can’t help it: he undoubtably went to American schools.
This beautiful photo of the lunar eclipse was taken by ecstaticist near Victoria, BC, and posted to Flickr. And many thanks to Lydia for phoning and reminding me of this. I only saw the last one because CG was out on the patio smoking something and thought he was hallucinating for a second. What would I do without my friends? I’d miss things like this while waiting for YouTube to load, that’s what I’d do!
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