Archive for August, 2008

Aug
27

here’s a great video on the art of lomography by thom hudson.

Aug
19

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view of left hand, fractured scaphoid. taken 2008.08.15. viewed with open source xray viewer OsiriX. normal xray view of scaphoid in lower right.

Aug
15

check out this amazing video mike horn created of various star wars ships and vehicles orbiting, flying, landing and cruising around san francisco. the official star wars blog has an interview with him. i plan on asking him a few questions myself, next time I see him in the bathroom stalls at work. I’ll be the one in the wookie costume.

Aug
12

nasa has the deets (via space weather).

 The eastern sky viewed during the hours before sunrise on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008.

Aug
11

Some of you humans may recall various stories and snippets that ran recently about former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon, who has been saying for years that aliens in fact do exist. The Discovery Channel had a good chat with him on their blogs recently. Or perhaps you’ve seen the interview with rocket scientist David Adair, who built a fusion containment engine at the age of seventeen and solved math equations with Stephen Hawking.

Space Rocket

Basically, a growing number of reputable scientists, pilots and astronauts are saying that the US government has been hiding knowledge of extraterrestrial life for decades. To many, this alleged cover up will come as no surprise. However, the real tragedy is that if indeed there has been a cover up to hide knowledge of beings from other planets, it means that we’ve been missing out on the opportunity to chat over a cup of coffee or knock back a bevy with our interstellar brethren, and to ultimately engage our unearthly visitors in a healthy, earthy debate about society, politics, or perhaps even universal health care.

[the latter of which may coincidentally need to be renamed as pre-existing intergalactic copyrights on the phrase universal health care may prevent its use here on planet earth. We’ll need to check with the intergalactic copyright office and make sure we aren’t infringing on any already-registered, interstellar rights which subsequently may have already levied upon us some hefty planetary penalties]

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Aug
04

the shamptonian institution has entered the colbert report’s make mccain exciting ‘green screen challenge’ with our newly uncovered video, dr. mccain’s underground lair. while we’ve been hobbled by injury, our determination to make mccain exiting will not be deterred [nor will our resolve to end the lawless reign of bears roaming the western cascades to the sierra nevada's to the rocky mountains].

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