November 2009

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Goodnight, Earth

Crescent Earth from Space

NASA’s Astronony Picture of the Day had this farewell photo of the earth from the European Space Agency’s comet-chasing spacecraft, Rosetta.

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Necrosis

Via Daring Fireball, here’s an animated map showing the advance of unemployment in the current recession.

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The Tao of the Dow

The Tao of the DowCartoonist Ruben Bolling explains the stock market, and perhaps the whole economy.

Airy Persiflage

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You Remember Daddy?

Dogs get to say things that humans have to be too cool to say:

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Fraidy Cats

Because we know that terrorists all have superhuman powers, and can be held only in specially-constructed prison cells made of kryptonite-reinforced concrete, John Gruber has started a log to keep track of who’s a-scared of terrorists.

BEN FRANKLIN WAS NOT AFRAID

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
–Benjamin Franklin, 1755

HOUSE MINORITY LEADER JOHN BOEHNER IS AFRAID OF THE TERRORISTS

The Hill:

House Minority Leader John Boehner said that Republicans will attempt to force Democratic leaders to hold a vote on a bill that would ban Guantanamo Bay detainees from being transferred to the United States.

And so on.