Clipboard Mirror

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Cool idea.

Protest Bomb

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Have you ever heard of a “protest bomb.” This is an example where one picture is worth 1000 words.

The Web of Seinfeld

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Have you seen every episode of Seinfeld. If so, you’ll understand this chart. Pick any spot and you’ll remember the episode.

SmartMeasure Measuring Cup Concept

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Finally, an easily readable, electronic measuring cup. This could be nice.

Music Sales

August 1, 2009

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Is the music business in trouble?

Top ten indicators that your employer has changed to a cheaper health care plan

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(10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.
(9) Directions to your doctor’s office include
“Take a left when you enter the trailer park.”
(8) The tongue depressors taste
faintly of Fudgesicles.
(7) The only proctologist in the plan is
“Gus” from Roto-Rooter.
(6) The only item listed under Preventative Care
Coverage is “an apple a day.”
(5) Your primary care physician is wearing
the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.
(4) “The patient is responsible for
200% of out-of-network charges,” is
not a typographical error.
(3) The only expense covered 100% is
“embalming.”
(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors
with little M’s on them.

AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU’VE JOINED A VERY CHEAP HEALTH CARE
PLAN:

(1) You ask for V.i.a.g.r.a, and they give you a
Popsicle stick and duct tape

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Opportunity Spies Unusual Rock — Large Meteorite? | Universe Today

August 1st, 2009

Opportunity Spies Unusual Rock — Large Meteorite?

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‘Block Island,’ an odd-shaped, dark rock, which may be a meteorite. Credit: NASA/JPL

The Opportunity rover has come across an odd-shaped, large, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite. The rover team spotted the rock called “Block Island,” on July 18, 2009, in the opposite direction from which it was driving. The team then had the rover do a hard right (not really, but you know what I mean) and backtrack some 250 meters (820 feet) to study it closer. Oppy has been studying the rock with its alpha particle X-ray spectrometer to get composition measurements and to confirm if indeed it is a meteorite.

Below, see a close-up, colorized version of Block Island and a 3-D version, both created by Photoshopper Extraordinaire Stu Atkinson.

Block Island close up and colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL, with image editing by Stuart Atkinson

Block Island really does have a meteorite-like look to it. Stu suggested on his blog that it looks like several meteorites found on Earth, such as one of the Derrick Peak meteorites found in Antarctica, shown below. The Derrick Peak meteorites are iron meteorites, and about 27 were found in one location in Antarctica. Researchers believe they all came from one meteor shower.

Check out Stu’s blog Cumbrian Sky to see lots of other meteorites, including the one Opportunity found on Mars in 2005.

And below is a look at Block Island in 3-D. We’ll keep you posted on the results from Oppy’s examinations of this rock, and what this interesting find might tell us.

Block Island in 3-D. Credit: JPL, NASA and Stu Atkinson

Sources: JPL, Cumbrian Sky

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This Child Will Touch Your Heart

Emily Bear plays the piano. She’s seven years old now and she’s played since she was three years old. Her gigs include national television, important symphony orchestras, and, did I mention, The White House. Her ambition is to be a composer. Listen for what her mother wants for her life. Like I say, this child will touch your heart.

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Walter Cronkite KB2GSD

Who knew Walter Cronkite was a ham radio operator? Here’s a video from 2003 narrated by Cronkite.

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Here’s the ARRL article on Walter Cronkite’s life.

Web Site Story

This is an amusing adaptation of West Side Story as a spoof on today’s Internet.

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