It is really interesting watching @jephjacques draw QuestionableContent frame on http://ping.fm/mslVZ

Twitter hacked. They just don't have the best security, do they? http://ping.fm/Cr8Uw

Which superhero are you?

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 80% Superman 60% Robin 55% Green Lantern 55% Hulk 45% Supergirl 40% Catwoman 40% The Flash 30% Batman 25% Iron Man 25% Wonder Woman 20%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

Tip of the hat to Briana

A quote for a rational society

• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
• Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
• Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
• Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
• Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
• But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

Now if only we can get the creationists, anti-vaxxers, homeopaths and other anti-science people to take that to heart, along with fundamentalists of every stripe, then maybe we could move along way towards the utopia that a modern world was supposed to eventually provide but the post-modern world so obviously isn't.

“But he was such a nice cat, always so polite & helpful…”

Thanks to John Wilkins

Emotional Shuttle launches.

I'm watching the launch of the Shuttle Endeavor, STS-126 on NASA-TV's webfeed and I can't help but remember the Challenger explosion. I can watch other launches, like those of Space X, with out a care in the world, but watching Shuttle launches always make me a bit nervous, even a little afraid and my through gets sore like I'm at a funeral an trying not to cry.

Before seeing Challenger explode, I had watched every shuttle launch and re-entry if not live then the “rerun” on public access or taped. There have been over 70 shuttle flights since Challenger but I have not watched very many. This evening's launch is the first shuttle flight I have watched since the Shuttle Coumbia disintegrated during re-entry in 2003.

Maybe watching this successful shuttle launch will help me be less anxious so I can enjoy watching the remaining launches before the Shuttle fleet is mothballed in 2010.

Song meme

Thanks to Kethrivis I am doing a song meme.

Rules:

• Start your media player and put it on random
• List the first lines of the first 32 songs it plays, even if you are embarassed to let people know you own that artist
• As people correctly guess the title and artist in the comments, cross out the songs on your list and add the info
• Using a search engine is cheating
• Looking on Last.fm or similar social music play tracker is also cheating
• If the song title is in that first line, you may skip it
• If too many by the same artist(s) keep popping up, you may skip them to increase diversity
• Pass it on!

So here is my list:

1. Come on baby, baby, take a trip with me
2. My uncle has a country place that noone knows about "Red barchetta" by Rush (tangent)
3. Every time I look at you I go blind
4. Do you remember the night the lights went out all along the promenade?
5. When my baby's on the corner and she's lookin' so fine
6. Girl, I just know I love you now
7. And from where I stand I reach my hand to capture a glow
8. All bound for Mu Mu Land
9. I've got a picture, It's there on the wall
10. What you say to drive that girl away when she's the one and only?
11. Love me forever let me know that you'll never leave me out in the cold
12. I hate to say the feeling's gone, and every day I can't keep holding on
13. This car is automatic, it's systematic, it's hydromatic "Greased Lightning by John Travolta (tangent)
14. Lady luck never smiles, so lend your love to me a while
15. Don't ask me what you know is true "Never Tear us Apart" by INXS (tangent)
16. Some equal man here is telling it to me
17. Painted old lady collecting splinters on the bench
18. Hot sun beating down, burning my feet just walking around
19. If we could see tomorrow what of your plans
20. Can I take this for granted with your eyes over me?
21. I am not the type of dog that could keep you waiting for no good reason
22. Lonely feeling deep inside, find a corner where I can hide
23. Welcome to your life, there's no turning back "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears (tangent)
24. In and out of darkness, in and out of sleep
25. You've got a great car, yeah, whats wrong with it today?
26. Live baby live, now that the day is over
27. Prejudice. Wrote a song about it, like you to hear it. Here it goes.
28. There could be countless reasons tension rules this house
29. I would tell you about the things they put me through
30. I wasn't jealous before we met, now every woman I see is a potential threat
31. And do those feet in modern times walk upon the flowers
32. Well sometimes in the evenings I start to get that feeling

Guess away!