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Go Time |CERN | Large Hadron Collider
Mar 27th
CERN Press Office | LHC First Physics – press resources: “The Large Hadron Collider physics programme will begin with collisions in the LHC experiments at 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam).”
Live Webcast PDT: 10:30pm to 8am.
Dethklok Fountain
Jan 29th
Metalocalypse Fans, yes, a regular jack-off can now own an exact replica of Mordor’s Fountain. Blood not included.
LIVE! ECLIPSE 2009
Jul 21st
July 21, 2009 Tuesday.
It’s a New Moon, which is also a total Solar Eclipse at 7:35 pm (EDT) at 29°27′ Cancer, the longest one until 2132.
Watch this online at: LIVE! ECLIPSE 2009
Nasa’s Solar Eclipse Page
“On Wednesday, 2009 July 22, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon’s penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean.”
Astrologically, check in with NorthPoint Astrology Journal with Pam Young, and Astrological Musings with Lynn Hayes
Huge sky happenings for Astronomers and Astrologers.
Betelgeuse shrinking?
Jun 12th
UC Berkeley researchers say red giant star Betelgeuse mysteriously shrinking
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, the bright reddish star in the constellation Orion, has steadily shrunk over the past 15 years, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.Long-term monitoring by UC Berkeley’s Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI) on the top of Mt. Wilson in Southern California shows that Betelgeuse (bet’ el juz), which is so big that in our solar system it would reach to the orbit of Jupiter, has shrunk in diameter by more than 15 percent since 1993.
Nobody’s 100% sure if this is a normal size variation, or the beginning of the end for Betelgeuse. Red supergiants are older stars, living out their retirement and telling comets to “stay the hell off my orbit!” Shrinkage could just be the next step on the way to the supernova grave. So raise a glass of Metamucil to Betelgeuse, in case this is the beginning of the end.
Matt Taibbi has a posse
Apr 16th
Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi has a new blog chock full of gems.
From The peasant mentality lives on in America:
It pains me to say this as an American, but we are the only people on earth dumb enough to use a nationwide campaign of “teabag parties” as a form of mass protest, in the middle of a real economic crisis.What’s next? The Great Dirty Sanchez-In of 2010? A Million Man Felch?
From the wonderfully titled article Teabagging Michelle Malkin:
When you read Ann Coulter, you know you’re reading someone who would fuck a hippopotamus if she thought it would boost her Q rating. That’s a rare quality and it commands one’s attention.
And scary bible stories:
what does it mean when my own parents tell me, with a straight face, a story about God asking Abraham to sacrifice his only son? You’re a little kid, listening at bedtime in your pee-jays to the story, expecting that Abraham is going to tell God to go fuck himself because he loves his children so much, and be rewarded for doing so. Instead it’s exactly the opposite, the father in the story is rewarded for being willing to carve his innocent son up with a knife, the moral of the story somehow being not that God is an insane murderous psychopath, but that God is just and wise and should be obeyed. When the story is over, Dad tucks you in to bed and says he’ll see you in the morning. Now that’s realism for you.
Quite a few long pieces up there, mostly focused on US economic woes and bailouts. Good place to spend an hour.
Alex Jones in another movie: New World Order
Apr 13th
So if you’re lucky enough to be employed and still able to pay your cable bill, and blessed enough to have IFC On Demand, you should look for a documentary premiering April 16: New World Order. The film features Alex Jones along with an assortment of 9/11 truthers, Bilderberg buffs, and NWO theorists. Love him or hate him, you have to admit Alex Jones has presence. If you’ve seen A Scanner Darkly, you’ll remember Alex as the guy with the bullhorn warning the world one passerby at a time. Definitely worth tuning in whenever the urge strikes. I”m hoping the film will confirm Ann Coulter is a Ron Paul loving Lizard Man, but I’d watch it even if it didn’t.
Paraguay pregnancy, presidential paternity, and the Bishop
Apr 13th
Paraguay never fails to satisfy when it comes to odd news, but this time there’s no Bush involved. From the BBC: Paraguay leader admits love-child. No biggie, right? But it gets better:
Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo has admitted he is the father of a child who was conceived when he was still a Roman Catholic bishop.
So what’s more shocking, the fact that the president of Paraguay is an ex-bishop? Or that he fathered a child while he was a bishop? Or that there are no underage boys involved?
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