CSI on TV, frame by frame http://ping.fm/XaCrD

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.