Must remember to blog later: we now are the proud owners of a desktop trebuchet. There's a review of the kit I bought for David here.
Yes, yes, those flingy contraptions from Return of the King; but I first saw a modern one on a Nova special.
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Buy Me A Ticket On A Rocket Plane
"Initially, the cost of the flights will be too high for most people to afford. However, within 10 to 12 years, suborbital spaceflight would be a real option, Rutan said.
The best part of all, Rutan added, was that 15 years from now, 'every kid who dreams, 'Wouldn't it be cool to fly in space?' will know that in your lifetime, you are going to go to orbit. "
SpaceShipTwo teams with Virgin Airways for the next phase: commercial space travel for the quite, quite wealthy, but they envision that in a couple of decades it will be more affordable for more people.
Is it too early to make our reservations? Is there a payment plan?
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Firing disrupts Powell Haiti trip
"Mr Powell is on a one-day visit to help promote political stability. He was also due to meet young Haitians living with HIV, to mark World Aids Day"
I wonder who else in this administration has bothered/would dare to mark World Aids Day?
Meanwhile, must have been interesting when the shooting broke out.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
A Whole Features: Beyond the Blog
Ooooh. Hmm. The church website as weblog connects people with people. Oooooh.
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
The Kids Are All Right
In central Ohio, voters primarily from Kenyon College in Knox County waited for more than eight hours at a polling place that had not prepared for an onslaught of newly registered voters.
"We didn't have enough machines, and we didn't strategize well enough," said Thomas F. McHugh, chairman of the Knox County Board of Elections. "We got caught up in a real bind."
Nick Papa, 18, a freshman at Kenyon, said he got in line at 4:30 and was told it might be six or seven hours, but he was still in line at 1:30 a.m. At one point, election officials offered paper ballots, but the students rebelled, saying they wanted to use the electronic machines "to make sure our votes count," Papa said.
I notice a number of comments in these stories that are the same - there are far more newly registrated voters than there are voting machines in place to accomodate them. Why?
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
The New York Times > National > 3 DeLay Aides Facing Charges in Fund-Raising
Whoa! Big eye-raiser in the small print.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
"Do They Mean Evil Is Coming?"
A Romanian woman is confused and frightened by the Euro-bashing and religious iconography of a Republican presidential campaign rally.
Monday, August 23, 2004
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Friday, August 06, 2004
Bush at Unity Conference: Spreading Disunity
UPDATE: The White House has the official transcript. And it notes a detail almost too sad to include here:
We actually misnamed the war on terror, it ought to be the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world. (Laughter.)
No, that's what they do.
It's hard when you're used to speaking to pre-selected fanatics. . .
Yep, if you're not smart enough to deal with people that disagree with you, you should stick to speaking to blue-ribbon hand-picked crowds.
U.S. Troops Clash With Insurgents in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. helicopter gunships fired on militiamen loyal to
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf on Friday, the second
day of fighting there, witnesses said.
Watch for ginmar's reaction on this.
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