Carnival of Space #115

post from Planetary Society Weblog on 11 August 2009 09:26:22 AM. © Planetary Society Weblog

Head on over to New Frontier News for this week's Space Carnival! ....

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Experience the planets

post from Bad Astronomy on 11 August 2009 09:00:00 AM. © Bad Astronomy

Check out this digital drawing of Saturn:Gorgeous, isn’t it? Drawn by artist Gregory Siegburg, it’s part of a new project called Experience the Planets, started by a talented group of artists who want to create and collect beautiful artwork[...]

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The Day Today: Wedding Yells

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 11 August 2009 08:59:42 AM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: Wedding Yells, humor, funny, The Day Today, BBC, streaming video

This video shows a nupticution. It's not so much wedding bells as 'execution yells' as a killer of 12 marries his 'fried to be' on the electric chair. Barbara Wintergreen reports for CBN News. From the BBC comedy, The Day Today. [2:12]

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Is Cloud Computing in your Future

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 11 August 2009 08:40:00 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

Free browser-based applications seem to be picking up in popularity. Microsoft will offer a lightweight version of Office 2010. Then there's Google Apps, the Chrome OS, and others. But some companies see only a small fraction of their workforce as being able to use such applications because of secur

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Some Old Technologies Used Even Today

post from Nerdy Science Blog on 11 August 2009 08:25:43 AM. © Nerdy Science Blog

Some old technologies used even today. 40 years has passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins travelled to space in Apollo 11. The technologies used in getting a man on the moon were amazing, and many of those developments are now used back here on Earth. Here are some of the technologies inspired [...]

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We made a sad old man cry

post from Pharyngula on 11 August 2009 08:22:57 AM. © Pharyngula

And it feels good! Ben Stein, that old fraud, was recently fired from his gig as a columnist for the New York Times because he crossed an ethical line: he was shilling for one of those 'free credit report' scammers. Well, that's what the NYT said, but he has written a long whine in which he carefully explains that what he did wasn't unethical at all, and he was actually fired because he offended a cabal of Goldman-Sachs bankers, Obama supporters, and…neo-Darwinists and atheists! I think that last bit was a reference to me.

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One final thought. Well, maybe two final thoughts: first, it's sad that the Internet has become a backyard gossip freeway for the whole world's sick people to pour out their neuroses. I have seen a tiny fraction of all of the hate mail that's come in the wake of the NY Times announcement (which they promised they would not make in any event). Too many sick people out there on the web for comfort.
Second, among those who are not really such hot items, I fully include myself. Without doubt, I have made as many mistakes as a person not in custody can make. I make no claims to anything even remotely like perfection or even desirability as a role model. It is just that in this case, I didn't do anything wrong. In my life, I have done plenty wrong. I am not the master. I am the servant and a poor one at that.

Don't forget "incoherent"! He's also pathetically whiny! There are so many things Ben Stein could apologize for as he says goodbye.

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P.E.D.s: Where Should Sports Draw the Line

There wasn't was much surprise when word leaked that David "Big Papi" Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were said to have failed tests for performance-enhancing drugs (P.E.D.'s) in 2003. The names of these sluggers slid off the same list that had shown Alex Rodriguez to be a steroid user earlier. Sadly

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This makes me want to count!

If it were possible that Feist could get any cuter, here it is. In this clip, she sings her song 1234 with the cast of Sesame Street. Brilliant - surely this will get the next generation into mathematics!

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