According to CNN, Big Ben ‘was [a] September 11 target’, but the terrorists were thwarted when flights from Heathrow were grounded.
McDonald’s test-markets Spam in Hawaii. [Insert Monty Python joke here.]
This week you can spot the Space Shuttle and International Space Station overhead. Check out the link for dates and times.
For all of my fellow geeks that yell at a movie when something in space makes a sound as it explodes, here’s a great site dedicated to Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics. Although in my defense I must say that I don’t spend time working out conservation of energy equations to disprove some of the things seen in movies. Most of the time, at least.
As a follow-up to the protest by some Dartmouth losers seniors over Mr. Rogers being their commencement speaker, here is a transcript of that address. I think he was eloquent and inspiring, and that all of those people who protested are poopoo heads.
Lobbyists for SPI Spirits Group, the distributors of Stolichnaya Vodka, held a “vodka party” for “a couple of hundred Capitol Hill staffers” to draw attention to the trade dispute in Russia. Our overworked elected representatives have to deal with early morning briefs over Mimosas, two-martini working lunches, and evening deals over a drink or two. I for one am glad to see that they now have the opportunity to get to some real hard drinking.
Ted Nugent is a pretty unusual guy, to say the least. This interview goes through his predatory eating habits (“Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians – except for the occasional mountain lion steak”), his take on the English Language (“Nugetize it!”), and the philosophies behind Tribe Nuge.
According to psychologists, “ums” and “uhs” have meaning. They’re called disfluencies and discourse markers, if anyone cares. I didn’t think so.
Talk about your expensive movie shoots: the city of Sydney will “shut down” for two days to allow the filming of the final scene of The Matrix Reloaded. Damn! The scene does sound pretty cool, but this has got to be a first.
A the foot of Mount Fuji, a select few got to take a ride on the experimental maglev train capable of speeds of 500 kph (310 mph). It would be so cool to see the train pick up speed and retract its wheels like a plane…
