Below is an image of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Atlantis crossing the sun. It’s a 1024 wide image, about 350k. The original high resolution and info about the shot can be gotten here.

What’s really mindboggling is that sun is 93 million miles away. It’s a bigun!

Or at least sex appeal. I realize this because Anousheh Ansari is going into space as the first woman space tourist and she’s hot. Hot in in that classy, powerful woman way, as opposed to Paris Hilton, who is mildy amusing on her best day and therefore not really hot.

But sending hot, sexy people suddenly makes space travel more interesting to the general public. Everyone wants to see what hot people are doing or even copy them. Because if you do what sexy people do, you’re sexy too, right? Or at least sexier than that drab thing you call life.

Luckily, others have thought of this, as Madonna has been cleared for flight around 2008.

If only NASA was aware of these things.

Microsoft (mostly) sucks. I know this because I have to use their products daily and they remind me of this. So they’re new , horribly named music player, Zune, will probably suck. Christ, it comes in turd brown:



BUT DAMN the homepage rocks.

Sorry, it’s the sugar buzz talking just from looing at the Candy Blog. This is some serious fun, the guy has a rating system for the various candies. Think about that for a second, there’s a whole barometer for candy tasting. I think I’m in love and him to have my sugar coated, caramel smelling children.

Mark Kennedy, a Disney storyboard artist, mananged to get a high rez copy of a legendary handout from Carson Van Osten, an old pro from Disney. The handout details some basic stuff about drawing comics and how to avoid some common problems. There’s a lot of really great, pratical meat-n-potatoes knowledge here about composing comic book panels. Great, great stuff.

I’ve collected it all into a handy 8.5 x 11 PDF for easy printing out: comic-strip-artists-kit.pdf

We’re talking revolution here, man.



found at http://www.threadless.com/product/383/The_Communist_Party

I remember taking my stepdaughter out of school for ocmpletely irrational reasons. When I tried to explain that the Twin Towers had been destroyed, she appeared confused. She didn’t know what they were.

So, WOXY, that nice Internet only radio station, will shut down on September 15th. A few thoughts why.



The Space Shuttle STILL can’t launch.


And not even jail wants to keep Paris Hilton.


Not a fun day.

Noah Kalina has been taking a photo of himself for the past six years. He’s made them into a movie.