(Note: updated to include the actual photo!)

That's what it looks like it's doing over that bar, which I take it is a measuring stick (probably a meter).


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I have the NASA Image of the Day as a module on my personalized Google page. This is today's:


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Nothing James Bond-ish, just a couple of links to pass along, with interesting images.

The Language Hat blog notes a new coin in the UK. The new 50p piece is in honor of the 250th anniversary of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language. It even has the etymology of the term "fifty pence" right on the coin!

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