In what is definitely the worst possible scenario for the Genesis project, the parachute on the re-entry craft failed to deploy and the stuntman-piloted helicopters never had an opportunity to attempt a recovery. Unless some miracle remains for the team, looks like the whole project is a wash over the most basic part of re-entry; […]
Oh god, I’m slipping into moral realivism. Such rough-and-ready pragmatism taps into one of our deepest intellectual veins. It appeals to America’s collective self-image as a square-jawed action hero. And it may partly explain why the outcry against the White House’s deception over the war in Iraq was rather muted. It is not just that […]
As mentioned before, the Genesis project is scheculed to return to Earth today. Good luck to the team; I hope they catch better than Bill Buckner.Yahoo! News – Space Capsule Heading Back to Earth
I think I have to read this. “The danger of American foreign policy,” [John Gray] writes, “is not that it is obsessed with evil but that it is based on the belief that evil can be abolished.” Such foolishness, he points out, is far removed from the wisdom of America’s founding fathers, for whom “the […]
A computer game written by Douglas Adams is being revived to coincide with a new BBC Radio 4 series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.The text adventure will appear on the station’s website and was described by the late Adams as “the first game to move beyond being ‘user friendly'”. Link; Link to Radio […]
Is this trend officially over yet? Between the Alton Brown/Good Eats code, the Geek code, and the Personal Growth Geek Code (wtf?), I think we’re slowly approaching apogee. So, of course, I had to find out what my Blogger Code was. I’m so lame, apparently in more ways than I thought. -------- Begin Blogger Code […]
Is this the future of sports? National Hockey League team owners are now seriously considering forming a new league. Don’t negotiate and it’s “The NHL is dead; long live the NHL”? I have no doubt they can do this, I just have serious doubts about the effects. I certainly, as a fan, would have some […]
Former Navy Secretary John Lehman has no idea where a Silver Star citation displayed on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s campaign Web site came from, he said Friday. The citation appears over Lehman’s signature. “It is a total mystery to me. I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the […]
They tortured people in Iraq, they (the Iraqis) have no weapons of mass destruction. Could somebody explain to me whether you think they’re idiots or geniuses?” Idiocy only shows when you say stuff like this to Reuters. What a moron. Oh, and if I’m an idiot, then you can kiss my tourism dollars goodbye as […]
Kerry apparently has the ability to solicit multiple citations for the same medal, something the Sun-Times quotes as calling “bizarre”. Of course, the original citation, issued by the Commander of Naval Ops in Vietnam at the time of the incident isn’t there. Wonder why? Oh, and his own website is citing him as receiving a […]