More cool facts about the Apollo 11 mission from National Geographic.
Also, just for fun, the history of the Lunar Lander game, which has also existed in some form or another for the past 40 years. Here is a link to a fun and hard recent version of the game.
Still a work in progress, but this PC hardware chart is pretty damned cool.
I plan on printing it as a nice reference. Lord knows where I’ll hang it up though.
I love GeekDad. Basically, it’s a Wired blog for the parental set.
One of today’s entries dealt with how to correct the misinformation regarding the moon landings. Namely, how to show your kids that, yes, they did happen.
This is pretty easily proved, but there are so many things out there that either well-meaning Luddites or evil Talibangelicals try to debunk using flawed logic. The same nitwits that refute the Theory of Evolution have no issues with the Theory of Relativity because they want a nuke plant in every ghetto and a MIRV hitting every country populated by brown people.
Just saying. Keep it up GeekDad!
I like technology. I like books.
Scratch that. I love books. Want to know why? Because once you own a book, it’s your’s. Not the bookstore’s. Your’s.
Want to know why I don’t have a Kindle and just have some ebooks I use Microsoft Reader for?
This is why. Turns out a publisher decided not to offer electronic editions of George Orwell, so Amazon rushed full steam ahead and deleted Orwell’s books from it’s customer’s Kindles.
Um, kiss my ass Amazon.
Ironically, they picked Orwell, who, of course was so focused on the ills of censorship and totalitarian rule.
I have both 1984 and Animal Farm on my shelf at home and you can find an electronic edition of the former here. For Animal Farm you may be out of luck on a legal e-book option.
Holy crap! I can’t keep up!
THIS Republican Racist has combined public health care with racism and asks if Obama’s mom would have aborted him if she could’ve gotten the government to pay for it.
Oh, and Clarence Thomas too. Apparently the only kids getting aborted are mixed race and non-white kids. At least those who would be getting aborted on the public dime.
White kids “catch mono” and disappear for a few months or something. Honestly I really have no idea where this guy is going with his argument. Other than – hopefully – to hell one day.
Seriously, why can’t we round all these guys up and force them into an Asshat Brigade for a 5-year term in rural Afghanistan?
I like that we’ll still have Billy Mays on the TV, with at least one new product. I’ve also seen some of his older work on the air again.
Like I said, after watching the Pitchmen series, he seems a likeable guy. And if anyone was trying to honor him at all, just airing his old ads should do the trick.
Some good advice on keeping pillows nice and fresh and fluffy.
I found this vastly entertaining and possibly useful.
