.: Above The Aether :.

Shuttle mission = $1.3 Billion/flight
Bottle of Jack Daniels = $35/bottle
Having balls busted by national news media = Priceless
(The above photo ws taken at NASA in Houston, TX in 2005 inside the Space Shuttle trainer. This is actually pretty cool. From what I’ve been told, the general public is not allowed to actually enter the [...]

Have you ever gotten a paper cut and wanted to die from the pain? Paper Cthulhu is there to help your wishes come true.
Power Word Fold (blog)
-Dave

This is from Cory Doctorow’s Flickr page. You can see Cory’s entire 2007 San Diego ComicCon photo stream here. This photo managed to make me smile on an otherwise dreary and frustrating day.
- Dave

From Discover Magazine:
Efforts to understand time below the Planck scale have led to an exceedingly strange juncture in physics. The problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. If so, then what is time? And why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our own [...]

Last night I had a weird dream that Justine and I were running around on some sort of large industrial farm.  There was a giant lizard creature chasing a giant bird creature across the complex.  There were a bunch of people milling around, not seeming to pay much attention to the crazy Godzilla-like clash [...]

I’m on the fence with these toe-sandals. They look sort of cool, but I’m not convinced they’d be all that comfortable. You can check them out here.
-Dave

I’ve been catching up on listening to some of the numerous podcasts piling up in my iPod. I just hit gem and thought I’d share.
The May 10th episode of Escape Pod, an original science fiction podcast, was called Impossible Dreams and it was really quite good. It reminded me of watching old [...]

The House of Representatives told President Bush to go fuck himself earlier this week when he attempted to eliminate $420 million in federal subsidies supporting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Would you believe some yahoo in Colorado suggested this to the slack-jawed, mouth-breathing shaved ape we lovingly call the President?
Thank god I didn’t lose PBS. [...]

This made me smile.
-Dave

I went music shopping this weekend and got the following albums which I will review in two sentences or less below:
1. Interpol: Our love to admire – Duran Duran used to be this cool in the 80’s, but faded away like an old printer cartridge. Interpol picked up where they left off and shook [...]