the shamptonian institute

Much to the chagrin of jealous chain-smokers slouching over jackpot machines everywhere, the American economy took a chance on luck today and fed a buck into the slots, pulled the handle, and got so dizzy watching the wheels spin, it threw up all over wall street. Hooray for public displays of affliction!

When the columns crumble, the American Eagle will be there to take Wall Street to it’s final destination…

Nasa CoLab recently hosted the twelfth Luna Philosophie salon, with guest Brian Day, Educational Technology Technical Lead at NASA Ames Research Center, who gave a great mission briefing on the coming LRO/LCROSS mission to search for water and landing sites for an antarctic station on the moon. NASA CoLab was set up to help build [...]

from sky: “Three years after Katrina I wanted to make a statement about the state of the clean-up operation.”

NASA’s TRMM spacecraft observed this view of Hurricane Gustav on August 27, 2008 as it attacked Haiti. At this time the storm was a category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 65 knots (75 mph) and a pressure reading of 992 millibars. The cloud cover is taken by TRMM’s Visible and Infrared Scanner(VIRS) and the [...]