Got this today: why is it so hard to talk about ALLAH…but so easy to talk about nasty stuff?, why are we so bored to look at a Islamic magazine…but so easy to look at a nasty one?, why is it so easy to delete a religus offline messages …yet we forward the nasty ones? […]
From a press release: NASA researchers using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft have developed a method of seeing through the sun to the star’s far side. The sun’s far side faces away from the Earth, so it is not directly observable by traditional techniques. Only it’s not seeing, it’s hearing. The sun is
The Music of a Sphere Read More »
Quoting from this site: The Treasury Department has started drawing from the civil service pension fund to avoid hitting the $8.2 trillion national debt limit. The move to tap the pension fund follows last month’s decision to suspend investments in a retirement savings plan held by government employees. In a letter to Congress this week,
Yeah, That Makes Sense Read More »
Quoting from this site: A bizarre crustacean, tagged the ‘musical furry lobster’, has been found in Australian waters for the first time.It’s so unusual, with a furry shell and the ability to chirp, that scientists have placed it in its own genus. But the lobster was almost lost to science. Rumour has it the French
I got the 100th day report in the mail, finally. I told my friend I had finally beaten Excel into submission, but really I just went around the problem. It was something in the pasting, screwing up the formatting. And I couldn’t find how to make it show me what it was doing. For future
One Down, God Knows How Many To Go Read More »
Quoting from this site: The explosion of the Challenger in 1986, after 24 consecutive shuttle flights, grounded all U.S. manned space missions for more than two years. (Compare that with the early history of aviation, when 20 of the first 40 pilots hired by the Post Office died in crashes within three years, with no
Quoting from this site: Scores of semi-naked cowboys, a couple of Saddam Husseins and a handful of Kate Moss impersonators joined thousands of other people parading through Sydney’s streets on Saturday for the city’s annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival. Hee hee, go check out the picture. Yay for semi-naked cowboys, fun to look
Semi-Naked Cowboys Read More »