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likes Star Trek on Boxee

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:03:29 -0700

likes Star Trek on Boxee

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Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:14:49 -0600

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Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:14:49 -0600

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Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:02:01 -0600

Click-Click-Click-Click-Click…incredible…

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:46:28 -0600

Click-Click-Click-Click-Click…incredible…

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Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:58:54 -0600

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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:37:55 -0600

Rise of the Rest

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:13:21 -0600

Rise of the Rest

This is pretty hilarious.

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:24:50 -0600

This is pretty hilarious.

Really like this song.

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:18:06 -0600

Really like this song.

dooce: Because my anxiety needed a nudge or two

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:33:42 -0600

dooce: Because my anxiety needed a nudge or two:

I’m not at all ashamed to admit that Sesame Street taught Leta the alphabet. In fact, I didn’t know she knew her letters until one night just a few months after that initial exposure to Sesame Street she pointed to the sponge letters in the bathtub and identified each and every one correctly. It was a total freak show! I frantically called Jon into the bathroom and was all, DUDE, WHAT IS WRONG WITH HER? And he’s all, what? Is she breathing? And I’m all, BREATHING? I DON’T KNOW, BUT SHE KNOWS WHAT A Q LOOKS LIKE!

And then the next two years of our lives were Sesame Street all the time, every day, in the morning, in the night, until suddenly she graduated to the more annoying shows where the characters ask you questions and expect you to respond to the television. WHATEVER. AS IF. Leta actually caught on pretty quickly to that trickery, she knew they couldn’t hear her answers, so when Dora was all, WHERE ARE WE GOING? Leta would go, YOU KNOW WE’RE GOING TO THE TREEHOUSE, WHY ARE YOU EVEN ASKING THAT STUPID QUESTION?

God, I love that kid.

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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:47:30 -0600

Very cool!

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:10:06 -0600

Very cool!

[superpoop]

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:56:24 -0600

[superpoop]

APOD: 2009 August 9 - Saturn’s Iapetus: Painted...

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:48:46 -0600

APOD: 2009 August 9 - Saturn’s Iapetus: Painted Moon:

What has happened to Saturn’s moon Iapetus? Vast sections of this strange world are dark as coal, while others are as bright as ice. The composition of the dark material is unknown, but infrared spectra indicate that it possibly contains some dark form of carbon. Iapetus also has an unusual equatorial ridge that makes it appear like a walnut. To help better understand this seemingly painted moon, NASA directed the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn to swoop within 2,000 kilometers in 2007. Pictured above, from about 75,000 kilometers out, Cassini’s trajectory allowed unprecedented imaging of the hemisphere of Iapetus that is always trailing.

(Best Viewed at Full Resolution)

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Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:21:46 -0600

From Bad Astronomy: 30 years ago, astronomers started playing...

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:06:27 -0600

From Bad Astronomy:

30 years ago, astronomers started playing around with making simulations of colliding galaxies. Computers were slow, so they could only keep track of a few hundred or thousand stars, which limited the models severely. The software had to keep track of every star, its location, velocity, and mass… the number of calculations is forbidding.

Things have come a long way. Now astronomers can track millions of stars using hydrodynamics codes, and then graphically display them giving them color, adding in dust, the effects of cloud collisions, supernovae… and the results are stunning.

This is something very much like what will happen between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies in about five billion years.

(Note the elapsed time of the animation: three billion years.)

This is absolutely entrancing.

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:29:46 -0600

This is absolutely entrancing.

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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:11:45 -0600

“War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human...

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:07:15 -0600

“War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.” — Harry Patch

He died July 25th.