Snowlapse 2010.wmv by amandareckonwith
(Hat tip: Bruce McQuain for QandO)
RC SR-71 JET by kenjikomatsumoto
Impressive RC model of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
(Hat tip: my dad)
I spent two hours last night in the cold outside Dagon Funeral Home. There were three or four hundred people ahead of me, two retired schoolteachers behind me, and a congressman about a dozen people back.
When I left, in the cold dark, the line still stretched out the front door, left down the sidewalk, around the corner, and back for two blocks.
That’s how it is when a hero dies.
That’s how it is when a small town loses its first such hero. The first since Vietnam.
Lance Corporal Zack Smith was 19.
His high school sweetheart will be a widow on their first anniversary.
And the price of freedom will never be clearer than it was last night in the cold.
So, nobody can do it in St. Johns or Mt. Pearl? OK, maybe not. I mean, it’s Newfoundland, for Cripes sake! But, still, no room at a Halifax or or Moncton hospital, eh? Nobody qualified to perform the procedure in Quebec, Montreal, [Ottawa] or Toronto?
How is it that the Canadian health care system is just fine for all the little people, but when a provincial premier hears the thump of mortality in his chest, it’s off to Cedars-Sinai, Sloan-Kettering, or Mayo?
‘S’funny how that works, huh?
But don’t worry. When we get our free health care down here in the US, everything will be tiddly.
I think that it’s for a pretty simple reason: the American people subscribe to a pretty simple political mathematics. They divide our political class into Those Idiots Running Things and Those Idiots Out Of Power. Then they modify it with (I Hate Those Guys). Typically speaking, election cycles depend on which party gets the modifier.
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‘Bullets won’t kill it!’ - Democrats and their upcoming Bad Time. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState Interesting analysis. |
Want to see something that “imposes restrictions on content publishers and consumers?” Look no farther than Flash itself. According to the company’s own (possibly made-up) numbers, 70% of games and 75% of video on the internet is all shuffled through one company’s proprietary plugin. I don’t know about you, but that sounds awfully restrictive to me. It seems like a really bad idea to let a single company have that much control over the creation and delivery of the internet’s content, don’t you think?.
And then Alito lifted Obama over his head and yelled, “I am now president!” Which makes him now president by the rules in the Constitution… according to Alito. He’s a Supreme Court Justice, so he would know.
Best. State of the Union Address. Ever. Next time I’ll definitely pay to watch it on Pay-Per-View.
Team USA Goaltender Ryan Miller’s Mask Unveiled - SB Nation
Ryan Miller will most likely be the starting goaltender for Team USA in the 2010 Winter Olympics and to honor that, Miller and goaltender mask company Warwick Mask & Equipment Inc. have unveiled their new creation.
(Hat tip: Die By The Blade)
The space agency said Tuesday that it’s ending efforts to extricate the robot from the loose soil where it’s been trapped since April. Spirit will instead continue to function as a stationary science platform – so long as it makes it through the harsh winter months.
…occasionally a product hits the market that bears an uncanny resemblance to one of [graphic interface designer Mark Coleran’s] fantasy designs. “And unfairly,” he says, “sometimes we get credit for it.
