20 August 2009

Meteor Crater and Mighty Mo

Hey, folks! The week is almost over!

  • AP: Iraqis Find Iranian-Made Rockets After Attack on U.S. Base
  • Guardian: Video: On the frontline with British troops in Afghanistan
  • Guardian: Food supplies at risk from price speculation, warns expert - "Experts", huh? Not this speculation panic again...
  • Guardian: How I became an agnostic: Covering religion for this newspaper left me disillusioned – but not quite an atheist - This is the same jackass who demonstrated a total misunderstanding of Christian doctrine on homosexuality, and Anglican church history, about two or three weeks ago. With that level of intellectual rigor covering religious topics, it's not surprising that he became agnostic.
  • Guardian: US student comes forward as creator of Obama-Joker image - Apparently the guy is an Arab-American who would have voted for Dennis Kucinich, not Barack Obama. The money quote: ""After Obama was elected, you had all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ. From my perspective, there wasn't much substance to him." Oh, snap!
  • Times: Democrats turn on Obama's healthcare plan - I love it. This health care thing is causing The One's credibility with both parties to implode.
  • Times: Vogue model wins fight to unmask blogger - Further decreasing any credibility that fashion models might have had, a Canadian fashion model in her thirties pressed charges against Google to reveal the identity of a blogger who called her a skank on his blog. Seriously? A model's self esteem is tied into what bloggers say about her? That's just absolutely ridiculous.
  • Times: Merkel and Medvedev share Ukraine's Munich moment - Un. Believable.
  • AFP: For sale in Germany: Soviet nuclear warhead bunkers - We already have this in America. It's called missilebases.com. Very cool.
  • BBC: The problem with PowerPoint - The problem with PowerPoint is that it's boring!
  • BBC: NATO's new approach in Afghanistan
  • BBC: MySpace to acquire music service - "MySpace says it will buy iLike, the top music application used on the rival social networking website Facebook." Wait, wait, wait... MySpace still exists? Wow. I had no clue. I thought it was like BetaMax tapes.
  • Wired Danger Room: Air Force stalled for years on new 'light' fighter; David Axe: Meet the "new" U.S. Air Force - It's about time.
  • Cracked Photoshop contest: If Schools Told the Truth - Hilarious.

    Last Tuesday, APOD featured a picture of a bunch of folks traipsing around Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona. The crater's website is here. They have a campground and various facilities. How do I know this? Because when I moved from Zoo Station to Van Diemen's Station in 2007, I passed by the turn-off during my first day of driving. They actually have a radio station (I don't remember if it was AM or FM band), that repeats an advertisement for the place all day long. Now, I've been reading and hearing about Meteor Crater in various contexts since I was a kid, but I didn't go to see it. Why? Because Mighty Mo told me not to. (I'm not really blaming her - just giving her a hard time.) If you're curious, the satellite view can be seen here.

    That's it for today, check in tomorrow for AMF.
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