.: Above The Aether :.

Russian-controlled computers on the international space station were rebooted today. These computers control frivolous things like oxygen and water and seem to be limping along now. Insert random Microsoft Windows joke here. Read the whole story here. -Dave

I’m not sure this will be interesting to anyone, but I felt compelled to describe my love-hate relationship with email as a form of communication in the workplace. I hate email. You see, I get around 300-500 emails every day at work. About a third of these are generated by automated server processes and are [...]

Justine and I went to see Janeane Garofalo and Patton Oswalt at the Verizon theater last night and had a good time. This was the second time I saw Janeane (the first time was at the Boulder Theater a few years ago). Janeane’s set was honestly unremarkable. She had family in the audience and admitted [...]

From PhysOrg: A team from MIT’s Department of Physics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) has experimentally demonstrated an important step toward accomplishing this vision of the future. The team members are Andre Kurs, Aristeidis Karalis, Robert Moffatt, Prof. Peter Fisher, and Prof. John Joannopoulos (Francis Wright Davis [...]

This story made me laugh today at work.  I can almost hear the long, loud scream that must have come from this young man. PAW PAW, Mich. – Ben Carpenter got the ride of a lifetime when his electric wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a semitrailer and was accidentally pushed down a highway [...]

This is brilliant.  I only wish I would have thought of it. Link (via StumbleUpon) -Dave

Striving to devolve our population one field trip at a time, the Creationist Museum, located in Petersberg, Kentucky presents “the facts” in a very quotable way.  Here’s a quote from their “About Us” page. We’ll begin the Museum experience by showing that “facts” don’t speak for themselves (click here for a proposed drawing of this [...]