Seti‘s heard a murmur. via Fark. Tune in Tuesday and check it out.
Major SETI Institute Announcement
10:00 – 11:00 am PDT
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Location: SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA, US
Web Site Address: http://www.seti.org/
I’m sorry I missed this: no idea when it was here, but I’m down that way all the time. Very odd I didn’t see it and annoy my smoking and in-denial friends about it. This is from Creative Advertisements Around the World Hemmy.net (turns out eglobe1.com took it from the original author {now linked here, see comments} and didn’t credit it), via Fark.
This is an advertisement found in Vancouver during the National Non-Smoking Week. The car was placed at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the message reads
‘Death from car accidents: 370
Death from smoking-related causes: 6,027
Quit now before it kills you.’
Welcome to my world. Well, actually the mountains get in the way most of the time, but I’ve seen the Northern Lights two or three times here in Vancouver, and they can be seen throughout most of BC when the sunspots align just right and all the polar bears are facing north north-west, so the light reflects off their silvery backs.
This video is timelapse photography from Fugly.com, and it’s kind of a shame, as one of the things I adore about the Aurora Borealis is the magnificently unhurried way the curtains of light wave in the sky. Also, this is all-green, and the purples and reds and indigos I know and love are sadly missed. My parents used to wake me up when I was little (and lived in Winnipeg) to watch the Northern Lights, and the self-evident magic of it, the middle of the nightishness of it, and the fact that it was considered important enough to wake us up for always associated it in my mind with Christmas. I didn’t even read The Father Christmas Letters till much later, but they explain plenty.
Yeah, that’s going to make the PR top ten list for sure. via Fark.
When Sonnie Martin recently broke down in Calgary in her Hummer H2, she said she was met with a string of horns, fingers, obscenities and rude comments.
“On that day, I was embarrassed to be a Calgarian,” she wrote to the Calgary Herald.
However, the letters in reply weren’t sympathetic.
“She drives one of the most potent, aggressive and ostentatious symbols of conspicuous consumption possible,” wrote one person…
Evidence of the seething hatred for the vehicle can be found at the Sierra Club’s hummerdinger.com or at FUH2.com, a Web site with 3,636 photos of people giving Hummers and their drivers the middle finger.
and, of course, at Ihumpedyourhummer.com, one of my personal faves. And what was the Hummercommunity’s response to this pervasive anti-Hummer sentiment?
“For people to point at the Hummer and say, ‘Bad, bad, bad,’ that’s retarded,” says Andy Drever, who sells between 18 and 25 Hummers a month at Shaw GMC, the only licensed Hummer dealer in southern Alberta.
Yep: don’t hate them because they drive Hummers. Hate them because they’re assholes.
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