Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Station Identification

"The Earth together with the Moon, as seen from the Messenger spacecraft to Mercury, May 2010."

Via Warren Ellis, via Bruce Sterling



I feel old (via Daily Kos):

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums.

The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry urging punks to "go ahead, make my day." Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch.

This is Ich Bin Ein Oberliner, discovering gray hairs.



On the docket: A Morning Update, Scott Pilgrem, and much, much more.