It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
Boston.com has 2009 in news photos.
(It’s a three-part series: click for part two or part three.)
If you think 2009 was rough, you might want to review the past decade.
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December 2009
The Year in Crazy
Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow reviews 2009: The Year in Crazy. There’s also a part two.
We’ve got shortages of all sorts of things, but we do seem to have an inexhaustible supply of The Crazy.
Sky, Viewed from Above
For space nuts like myself, this is a famous photo. Astronaut Bruce McCandless is testing a self-contained jet backpack called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), designed to allow astronauts to perform extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) untethered from their spacecraft.
NASA’s official title for this photo was “EVAtion”, but when the photo was posted on another blog a few months ago, I suggested a different title, which I still like: Sky, Viewed from Above.
Fairly amazing, isn’t it?
Christmas Stars
Hard to feel enthusiastic about outdoing the neighbor’s Christmas lights after viewing this: Boston.com has the Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar — a new photo will be revealed every day until Christmas.
If you look at the photos and can’t wait to see more, you can check out last year’s calendar while you wait.