Wow. Wow again. Good show, octopus!

Me too. But in the old days, they made them to last, even if they were stuck in your stomach for 25 years!

SpaceX CEO & CTO Elon Musk discusses the difficulty of making a reusable rocket. Filmed at The National Press Club.

A strange 1.1 meter circumfrence hollow metallic ball appears to have fallen from space, or somewhere, onto Namibia. The pertinent facts:

The farther away you look, the farther back in time you see. So, GN-108036, a galaxy spotted by NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble scopes, is 12.9 billion light-years away, and thus, about 12.9 billion years ago (not counting adjustments for cosmic expansion). It turns out that GN-108036 is producing stars at the rate of about 100…

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I’m thinking there’s another explanation. But it does point out something people need to know about penguins … wherever they hang out, it tends to smell bad.

Photographer Scott Rowed has penned an excellent essay on his experience making the switch to Linux, and he’s agreed to place it here as a guest post. Please read it and pass it on to people, school districts, small island nations, and others who may benefit. This is a repost from about two years ago:

March is the snowiest month. We get lots of snow in December. Sometimes it is too cold to snow. When I was a kid (whenever that was) there were more snow storms, the total snow cover was much, much deeper, and when it snowed…it snowed, by golly! Such are a few of the things people…

The eternal question … answered. [a repost]

The famous bird, birding and birder blog, 10,000 birds, has reached the 4,000 post mark. So, if there are 10,000 birds and 4,000 posts ….. But seriously, it’s true, it did! Did you know that I blog there once a month? No? Then you have some catching up to do! I appear to have done…

Or even not at home! (I’m talking about the part with the dummy that is not a dummy.)

I just saw something on TV about people running around with “Made in America” tee-shirts trying to talk everyone else into buying Christmas presents that were made in America, and naturally, my cynical self wondered which East or Southeast Asian Sweat Shops the tee-shirts were made in. So I looked and it turns out that…

Remember that! Why? This is why! Brilliant. Now you have pictures and pithy sayings to remember all these important science facts.

It has come to my attention that there are people in the US who think Reindeer are fictional animals. That make sense because they are associated in may people’s minds [SPOILER ALERT] with a fictional character known as ….

YA Animated News Story: Related: Ode to Rocky and Attack of the Hound of Malembi. Or, “Whose are these people, anyway?”

… As reported in the Washington Post. Kim Jong Il took power in 1994 on the death of his father, Kim Il Sung. Now, Kim Jong Il’s son, Kim Jong Un will become dictator of North Korea.

It is done. The very last US Troops1 left Iraq a few moments ago, according to reports. And when I say “wheels up” I speak metaphorically, because I think they may have driven over into Kuwait.