In Hoc Signo Vinces
May 24From Christian News Wire. (CHT Bruce Majors; be sure to read the whole thing.) A Cross made from the Cross carried Around the World on foot by Arthur Blessitt (319 nations, island groups and territories almost 40,000 miles) Is ‘Now Orbiting The Earth’! The Cross went up on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon Spacecraft. Celestis [...]
SpaceX Marks the Spot
May 22The private space exploration company SpaceX has just launched an (unmanned) space capsule, headed for a rendezvous with the international space station. SpaceX is under contract to NASA, so this isn’t true privatisation yet; but at least it introduces a bit of independence. This seems an appropriate occasion to post once again a link to [...]
Programmable Reality
Feb 22Progress is a matter of the real world becoming more and more like the internet. That has the virtue of sloganesque pithiness and the vice of being subject to obvious counterexamples. But I think it captures an important truth. Anarchism, for example, in effect calls for the open-source abundance, multiplicity of choice, and non-hierachical flatness [...]
The (Very) Thin Green Line
Feb 05The Guardians of the Universe, the bosses of the Green Lantern Corps, have divided the universe into 3600 sectors, each under the jurisdiction of one (originally) or two (currently) Green Lanterns. This is obviously absurd. But let’s pause for a moment to consider just how absurd it really is. Current estimates place the number of [...]
When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie
Sep 03Domino’s Pizza – specifically, its Japanese branch – supposedly plans to build a pizza restaurant on the moon. No, I don’t get it either.
The Gods Ain’t Happy
Aug 23Check out a bunch of absolutely amazing pictures of the Puyehue eruption in Chile.
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