http://spaceweather.com/eclipses/gallery_22jul09_page4.htm?PHPSESSID=o3r5i0b0f2dm6nou75iluo0v47
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201701/Swine-flu-cases-soar-100-000-people-contract-disease-just-week.html#
When Becky and I lived in Knoxville, we resided in the heavily Republican 18th legislative district of Tennessee, a.k.a. “the fightin’ 18th,” which is represented by the ultraconservative — and endlessly controversial — Stacey Campfield (who is a man). Campfield is many things: a blogger (albeit a somewhat notoriously sloppy one, in terms of spelling and grammar); a classic car… Read more »
http://twitter.com/brendanloy/statuses/2786021805
http://twitter.com/brendanloy/statuses/2786020641
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nation_descends_into_chaos_as
Via Flickr, here’s a shot of Wednesday’s total solar eclipse as seen from Bayohara, India: (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ptwo/ / CC BY 2.0) More photos can be found at SpaceWeather.com. And here’s a video of the Moon’s shadow sweeping across Asia, as seen via satellite. UPDATE: Still more photos via the Boston Globe‘s always excellent The Big Picture photoblog.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/dont-tax-the-rich-just-stop-giving-them-stuff.html
http://donklephant.com/2009/07/21/national-healthcare-breeding-ground-for-terror/
Last week, Fox News published a story (now scrubbed from their site, but available here) titled “Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies.” CNET News asked whether we’ve reached the “dawn of the corpse-eating robots,” while Fast Company mocked Fox for its “gleeful conjecture.” Now, the manufacturer of the EVIL FLESH-EATING ROBOTS OF DEATH has responded with a press… Read more »