Our president bizarrely reached back to Sputnik today as an example of the sort of fresh thinking and innovation we need to recapture. The strangeness of the example notwithstanding, it did get me thinking about space exploration in general, and I considered again how much I’d like to have not just missed Apollo 11. I … Read more
Adding to its seemingly endless list of hilarities discovered in its quest to index the world, Google photographed an unambiguous and clearly intentional Star of David on the building housing Iran Air, The Jerusalem Post reports. According to the article, Israeli engineers constructed the building before the Islamic Revolution, when Israel and Iran enjoyed good … Read more
Oh, man. Really? Really? I saw Drebin as a hot trending word on Twitter this morning and absently clicked it, thinking a long-rumored fourth Naked Gun movie had been formally announced. Instead, I learn he died last night after complications from pneumonia. (Incidentally, folks, you don’t have a franchise without Mr. Nielsen. Don’t try anything … Read more