I got mooned by Jupiter. W00t.

And I got, er, fuzzy blobbed by Andromeda.

A successful Galileo Telescope Day, I feel.

...assuming The Guardian and Google are to be believed. Still, a day or two here or there... no big deal in the grand scheme of 400 years. Of course, his unveiling to the Venetian bigwigs was a commercial venture, with the actual science coming in the next few months. Still... let's see if the clouds hold off tonight so I can pull out my ( Read more... )

Since chesirecatco has inexplicably failed to mention this, I guess it's up to me. A (hopefully) cool IYA-related activity/program is the Galileoscope: $15-20 gets you a simple telescope delivered to your door. A small, simple, sturdy telescope. No frills, no Hubble-quality delights in store. Just the mystique of actually seeing what Galileo saw all those ( Read more... )

In case you haven't heard yet, some good news: the Iowa supreme court apparently knows how to do their job.

Full text of that story also available right here, with my own completely fair and balanced commentary ( hidden from easily offended eyes )

Note to Canadian Minister of State for Science and Technology, Gary Goodyear: you're doing it wrong ( Read more... )

1 Obama is good

2 Fundamentalist Muslims and the Vatican are bad supreme douchebags (see 1 ( Read more... )

OK, so it's a limited audience but... it still feels good to make an impact in the universe, however small.

I guess I live in a cave, because I haven't heard about this until now.

I would like to make some searing and insightful comment about it, but... the stupid is piled so high* with this that I actually can't work out what my reaction is. Well, other than [points to icon]. I expect cinnabari will have something to say about it -- I wonder if any of it will ( Read more... )

For some reason signage in Massachusetts is more amusing than in Colorado. There, that's my random sweeping generalization for the day. In evidence, I present my two favorites ( Read more... )

So Avis in Orlando couldn't find their arses with both hands and a map. On the bright side, you* should check out the "compact car" they gave me -- it looks a bit like this. I think they wanted to stop me going postal on them.

*Especially if you = cinnabari or nous_athanatos.