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[Before bed update]
Here, courtesy of Football Fans For Truth, are the top ten Scholars for 911 Truth.
Still Alive
I got into LA late morning, but I’ve been busy all day. Maybe I’ll check in later, if the wireless works in the room.
Puttering
I’ve been running cables and speaker wire for the move of the television from the living room to the new family room created by opening up the kitchen walls. And packing. I’m back to CA in the morning, for the week. Wall patching will have to happen next weekend.
Oh, and I’ve added a couple new sites to the space blogroll, Michael Belfiore and Jeff Foust’s Personal Spaceflight blog.
Starving Hollywood Celebrities
…are being cruelly mocked. By the cruelest mocker of all, Mark Steyn.
…other celebrities rushed to show their support for the anti-war movement: ”I’ll not have what she’s not having.” Winona Ryder is telling waiters, ”Hold the haunch of venison.” Keira Knightley is saying, ”Hey, I’ll just go with the short stack this morning. And the low-fat simulated-maple syrup substitute.” Ice T has given up iced tea. Disgusted by the callousness of the Bush war machine, William Powell and Myrna Loy have decided to go without the olive in their fourth martini. Willie Nelson is said to be gaunt and sounding croaky. Michael Moore, hovering dangerously at 300 pounds, has told friends, ”You can never be too rich but you can be too thin.”
[Update in the afternoon]
People magazine, of course, reports this as though it were a real hunger strike. Would it hurt them to point out that no one, in fact, is going to be truly hungry, at any point of this laugh fest?
Can Anyone Explain To Me
…why we should take the IAEA seriously?
Mohammad El-Baradei’s capitulation to Iran has made huge waves at the IAEA in Vienna. The other inspectors are up in arms. “This totally bankrupts our work” says a Viennese inspector. “Mohammad El-Baradei folds vis-a-vis the Mullahs and leaves us standing in the rain. Why don’t we just let Iran be in charge of inspecting their own nuclear program?”
Nature Lovers
The “Rainbow People” have apparently shat in their own nest. I’m shocked, shocked!
Unintended Consequences
Gays working at the Boston Globe must now get married, or lose their partner’s benefits.
It will be interesting to see what kind of logical pretzels they warp themselves into to explain why this is unfair, when unmarried heterosexual couples don’t get benefits. I also wonder what Andrew Sullivan thinks? Not enough to actually link to him, though.
Fear Of Clowns
Some amusing comments. I don’t mind clowns all that much, myself. But mimes–that’s a different story. I’m not a violent person, generally, but they make me want to take a bat to them.
Boomtown
Mojave seems to be recovering from the construction of the Highway 58 bypass:
In four years, Mojave Airport has gone from an under-utilized airport and civilian flight test facility to a spaceport with a worldwide reputation as a “Silicon Valley” for the emerging commercial space industry.
New companies are arriving and established tenants are seeing their contracts and payrolls grow.
Companies such as Scaled Composites – which won international acclaim for SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded, manned space program – and XCOR Aerospace are among the cutting-edge aerospace firms outgrowing their existing facilities as they add employees and projects.
Two Confidence Anecdotes
I recently got a call from Chase left on my answering machine telling me to call an 800 number and have my credit card available to authenticate myself. The trouble is, they didn’t authenticate themselves. Anyone could have made that call to me and if I did what the call said, I would be giving my credit card number (and probably the date, secret code and every else they asked me) to a bad actor. I authenticated them by dialing the number on the back of my card, but I worry that there will be a smart confidence man who will figure this out before the rest of the world figures out how to stop leaving openings.
I also received two calls about my “Virgin lottery territory” piece that Buzz Aldrin liked. Two other people called because they received checks from a “Virgin Lottery” that didn’t cash, they searched for that on the web and my article and phone number came up. Never mind that my article dealt with the 17th century lottery that helped fund Virginia colonization, they thought I might know something about modern fraud.