The Linkage for October 23rd
Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from October 14th to October 23rd.
NASA review panel says go big or go home
The Augustine commission’s report is in and “the premier finding is that the human spaceflight program that the United States is currently pursuing is on an unsustainable trajectory.” Who’da thunk that setting high goals and then not providing enough funding wasn’t a successful strategy? Will this be the catalyst for finally transforming manned space efforts from government-run monopolies into wide-open commercial endeavors? Or it will be used as an excuse to effectively end U.S. manned space exploration?
Tags: nasa space moon government united_states
This is going to look bad on your next performance review
After a Northwest flight from San Diego to Minneapolis overshot its destination airport by about 150 miles, federal investigators are looking into whether the pilots had become distracted, as they claimed, or perhaps fallen asleep.
Tags: travel airplanes stupid
Looking for a little blue in a sea of red
Texas Monthly sent a writer out to King County in north Texas (allegedly the reddest county in the United States) with a single task: find a Democrat.
Tags: texas politics republicans democrats 2008_election
Video: Every single Kramer entrance in chronological order
How many different ways can you walk through the same door over the course of nine years? If you’ve got 6 minutes, you can find out. Interesting how the entrance evolved over the years from an abrupt but relatively normal stride into the famous slide-step maneuver we all now associated with the character.
Tags: video television seinfeld
Shooting new angles with kite photography
This man has taken some incredibly great photos by rigging a camera to a kite.
Tags: art photography
Drug cartels filling the gap for Colorado wacky weed prescriptions
Demand for medical marijuana in Colorado has grown so fast in the past few months that it has outstripped the production of legal “grow” operations and is now probably being supplied by international drug cartels, say some local sheriffs and agents from the DEA.
Tags: colorado medicine health law crime drugs
The Great East Texas Ten-Ton Oil Pump Heist
If you ever asked yourself how “Ocean’s Eleven” would have turned out if Larry the Cable Guy had been included in the cast, here’s your answer.
Tags: texas crime stupid funny
32 planets discovered outside solar system
The known universe continues to get a little more crowded.
Tags: space extrasolar_planets chile
2010 Winter Olympics to feature the crappiest medals ever handed out
They can get as worked up about the aborginal art and individual designs as they like, but the true of the matter is that those medals look like rejects from the mint.
Tags: olympics canada
Giant hot-dog stand battles dumpster-diving bears
For the bears around Bailey, 40 miles southwest of Denver, the choice of wild berries and tree bark or a trip to the trash bin behind the Coney Island hot-dog stand — where they can gorge on bags full of half-eaten hot dogs, hamburgers and ice-cream cones — is apparently a no-brainer.
Tags: colorado animals food
East Texas school district picks conformity over compassion
What a wasted opportunity to provide their students with a real-life example of generosity, compassion and civic duty. The older I get, the less I value dress codes in general. Honestly, I’d much rather see the school district grant an exemption to any student who’d be willing to do the same thing that this boy wants to do.
Tags: texas education health stupid
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