Of the road, that is… This popped into my feedreader today. Normally, I would include it in my weekly traffic posting, but I believe that it (potentially) deserves its own entry. According to grandad, Ireland will be switching from left-side driving to right-side this summer. Unfortunately, a search for some official statement or speech to …
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Southern Hospitality II
Like wikipedia articles, breaking news stories are best left to sit and smoulder until the facts come out. Yesterday, I passed along quotes from an AJC article concerning the arrest of a British historian for jaywalking. Well, there’s another story today, with the officer insisting that he used an “excessive amount of discretion.” Here’s the …
There Is No Hope…
…as long as journalists use phrases like this: (from the NY Times) Referring to a new test rocket by Blue Origin (an experimental spaceflight company). When the company performed the first test launching on Nov. 13, it made no announcement. And that was it, pretty much, until last week, when the Blue Origin Web site …
Southern Hospitality
Atlanta Police handcuffed and jailed a British author in town for a conference. His crime? Jaywalking. Here are some choice quotes from the AJC article (registration required). Fernandez-Armesto said. “I asked him what his authority was because I didn’t see a badge. Where I’m from you don’t associate young gentlemen in bomber jackets with the …
Cube Farm Samurai!
I don’t work with any of these people. In fact, I can honestly say that there is no one I (currently) work with that I dislike. Amazing, isn’t it?
Commenting Adjustment
Some of you may have noticed that your comments have been stuck in the moderation queue. I had the spam paranoia filter on eleven. I’m turning it down a bit. We’ll see if this improves things. You’ll still have to have at least one approved comment per email address before your comments will go through, …
Big Pharmaceuticals Aren't Evil Dictators?
In a post about the current regulatory environment around medial care today, In The Pipeline is maintaining the the NYTimes seems to be adopting a conciliatory attitude toward big pharma. I have no idea. I personally find this post interesting because of the quotations he digs out of the original NY Times article. Q. Wouldn’t …
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Earth in Perspective
This video from Google Video has a nice progression of size comparisons for some familiar stellar bodies, and some familiar extra-stellar bodies. Have a look-see. Gacked from SciGuy
"Geostationary" Banana Over Texas
Alerted by Physics is Phun, I immediately ran to the Geostationary Banana over Texas website, because that is a phrase I would never have thought to hear. The concept is cool, but I wish they would have named it something else. According to the Project website, the helium-filled banana (another phrase never to have been …
Upset Am I
I’m upset! Not only did Physics is Phun scoop me with the Geostationary Banana over Texas, but his entries are both more detailed and better educated than mine! But mainly, it’s because he got to the Geostationary Banana before I did.