Google Mars
In the spirit of Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google Moon, the next frontier for Google maps junkies has been released - Google Mars.
Using maps from images taken by NASA’s orbiting Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor, Google provides users images of the Martian surface. View mountains, craters, dunes, ridges, canyons, and plains… all by name. You can also view the location of various spacecraft that have explored Mars.
It works just like Google Maps, you can zoom in, drag from side to side, and pinpoint locations. � You can view by elevation, by infrared, or by …
Feingold’s Folly
Well, I used to be proud of being from Wisconsin. Now, unfortunately, that wholesome Midwestern image is sullied. Besmirched by one Russ Feingold, the Senator from Wisconsin.
In a recent political (and, if I may be so bold, stupid) move, Mr Feingold has introduced a resolution to censure the President for the NSA wiretapping “scandal.” [ Feingold Proposes Censuring President Bush ]‚ He has sent his resolution to the Senate Judiciary first, but if the Judiciary doesn’t act on it, Feingold has said he will take it to the full Senate. [ Feingold Draws Little Support for Censure ]
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Another Edition of “You Do The Math”
Entertainment by Barbara Streisand (but not what you think)
Now… I am not immune to the occasional spelling error, but then, I don’t go around admonishing the President for being a C student, either.
I find it ironic then, that Barbara Streisand, referring to George Bush and the “The arrogance of this C student,” also had 11 spelling errors in the same post! Thank goodness for the Drudge Report and their quick thinking in making a screen shot of the original post since the errors were corrected by the Spelling Fairy as soon as the news hit the wire.
You can view a list of the errors in the …
A Victory for Common Sense
The Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that universities accepting federal funding must allow military recruiters on campus. The universities felt that they should have free speech protection in a dispute over the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
The universities were certainly free to stop accepting public funds. They were also free to make known their protest of the military’s policy. That should have been the end of the story. But they wanted to take it beyond the extreme, into an area that would defy common sense.
The government provides certain stipulations on distribution of public funds (which it …
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