Apparently it’s not a purely military coup–a civilian junta, led by the businessman who had opposed Chavez will be ruling until elections can be held. And the result is a fall in oil prices.

They’ve finally decided on a solution. The company will be split into two separate companies. One will write software, and the other will build patches.

Hilarious.

NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe will announce today that Barbara Morgan, the back-up teacher in space to Christa McAuliffe, will finally get to fly.

Dan Goldin viscerally and vociferously opposed civilians in space (except for corrupt Senators), and refused to reinstate the teacher-in-space program (it was suspended after the Challenger accident, in which McAuliffe was killed). Morgan is finally flying because she was formally accepted as a member of the astronaut corps, and has been training for several years. However, I suspect that she’ll still try to get in some teaching during her flight.

Virginia Postrel (who still doesn’t have any way to permalink individual posts) has some good thoughts on the cloning debate today.

As I discussed last week, today is the forty-first anniversary of the first manned spaceflight, and the twenty-first anniversary of the first Shuttle flight. The Yuri’s Night celebrations will occur all over the world today. They’ll be doing a continuous webcast, and the number of worldwide (and offworld) parties is now up to a hundred and twenty.

As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.

As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.

As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.

Not there was much doubt, but Israel has provided the U.S. government with evidence of Arafat’s complicity in the Israeli terror attacks.

The growing sense of new pogroms against Jews worldwide may spur additional emigration to Israel, further confounding Palestinian extremists’ goals. Some may conclude that Israel, buttressed by a growing Jewish population willing and able to defend itself, may be the safest place…