Mo' planets!

Proposal would add planets to solar system

I *like* Xena. I do hope they keep it.

Woodworking Methods

Notes & Comments, Woodworking Methods Can't use Furl for some reason, so Blogger is the next best thing.

Everything we know is wrong

Science is a funny thing. Sometimes for every question it ansers it asks three more. And sometimes it turns your whole world on its head.

Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected:

A project aiming to create an easier way to measure cosmic distances has instead turned up surprising evidence that our large and ancient universe might be even bigger and older than previously thought. If accurate, the finding would be difficult to mesh with current thinking about how the universe evolved, one scientist said.

Gawrsh.

WAY cool user interface

TED Blog: Jeff Han on TEDTalks
I WANT one of those!

LOL!!!!

Governors bristle at plan to federalize Guard:

Emphasis added:

"'Federalization just for the sake of federalization makes no sense,' said Gov. Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana, a Democrat who had rough relations with the Bush administration after the disaster last year. 'You don't need federalization to get federal troops. ... Just making quick decisions can make things happen.'"

Blanco talking about quick decisions?? ROFL!!!

Paging Mr. Serling, Mr. Rod Serling...

Yaakov Kirschen at Dry Bones Blog: notes the following:

So if we're going to discuss the supernatural I propose that we examine the following weirdness:

The Bible is not a book It is a collection of books. One of the books of the Bible is the book of Psalms. When I went to school we were taught that the book of Psalms is a book of poetry. Actually it's a book of prayers or incantations.

When the war broke out, religious Jews began reciting Psalm 83.

A rabbi, being interviewed on an Israeli TV news show called on viewers to read Psalm 83.

The Chief Rabbinate's governing council in Jerusalem announced that at 6:00 p.m. (Israel time) every day, Psalm 83 is to be recited simultaneously by Jewish communities all over the world.

Turns out that Psalm 83 calls out for Divine help to fight off an attempt to wipe Israel off the map.

Here's the text of Psalm 83.

So what's weird?

Archaeologists have just announced the amazing discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker who was digging in a bog in Ireland two weeks ago. The book, which was buried and lay hidden under centuries of mud, has been dated to the years 800-1000. Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan said it was the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries...



Oh, and the book was found 'frozen open' to Psalm 83... With all other pages stuck shut.

REVEILLE

REVEILLE

Watch the whole thing.

The wash of the penguins

Clean penguins return to sea after spill.

Can't you just see them? Waddling, flapping, honking happily, wearing that fresh-scrubbed shine...

Blog value - who knew?

Business Opportunities Weblog | How Much Is My Blog Worth: "

My blog is worth $24,839.76.
How much is your blog worth?

Hat tip to Laura, btw. Forgot to mention that!

Veto #1

President Bush uses his first veto to kill a bill allowing expanded federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

He's not running for re-election, so the charge of "pandering to the base" doesn't work.

Maybe he really is a man of conviction.

MSM strikes again!

How much more blatant can you get?

Robert Novak says today that he learned Valerie Plame's identity from a source he refuses to name and from Joe Wilson's entry in Who's Who.

He called a number of people in Washington to confirm it, amonth them Karl Rove and an official at CIA. Both confirmed the information. (Presumably, if the identity was secret, the CIA contact would have said, "no comment.")

But look at the AP headline: Novak: Rove was a source in outing Plame

Not "Novak: I got Plame's name from Who's Who" or "Novak confirms Rove was not Plame leaker" or even "Novak: Rove, CIA confirmed Plame's identity".

How can you trust people who spin so blatantly and transparently?

The Handyman's Secret Weapon

Whether in the shop or on orbit, there's no substitute for duct tape.

Fruit is the root of all evil

The Anchoress identifies the source of the world's problems.

It's covered with seeds....

Here they go again

Once again, the forces of gender-PC are running amok.

This time, they're trying to remove a noted researcher - a female researcher - from two national advisory panels (National Math Panel and Nat'l Science Board) because of three articles she published twenty years ago that - gasp! - found differences between boys and girls.

Have these people never been to a kid's birthday party?

FWIW, a female cousin of mine is a Ph.D. mathemetician. Last I heard, she was working for the NSA.

WSJ on why it published The Story

According to the editors of the Wall Street Journal, they were never asked not to publish the SWIFT story. Senior government officials briefed them with some unclassified details, since they knew that the NYT was goign to go ahead and publish it anyway. This is key: They say that if they had known that the government had asked the Times to spike the story, they would not have run it.

Too bad the Times doesn't have their sense of civic duty.

NT06 - Philemon

Paul's letter to Philemon was written while he was in prison. It's an interesting little letter, teasing all sorts of questiosn about the kind of person Paul was, and the interpersonal interactions he had with people on his journeys.

Amidst the personal please, verse 6 sticks out as a universal teaching: "I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ."

It's when we give away our faith that we come to fully understand it.

NT06 - Philemon

Paul's letter to Philemon was written while he was in prison. It's an interesting little letter, teasing all sorts of questiosn about the kind of person Paul was, and the interpersonal interactions he had with people on his journeys.

Amidst the personal please, verse 6 sticks out as a universal teaching: "I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ."

It's when we give away our faith that we come to fully understand it.

The high cost of treason

The Left wants the NYT shut down

Michelle Malkin has a roundup of reaction to the NYT's treasonous publication of yet another legal, Congress-briefed, safeguarged, SECRET intel program that (until today) was helping catch terrorists.

I think I've finally figured it out.

The Times is trying to goad the administration into shutting it down.

The American Left has been braying about how Bush is a fascist dictator, but of course they have had nothing with which to back it up. The Bill of Rights is still in effect.

But if they can get a major newspaper to aid and abet the enemy badly enough, often enough, to get the administration to clamp down, then they can dance around and say, "See? WE TOLD you Bushitler was a dictator!"

The neck-slicers and suicide bombers will now be able to better conceal their financial dealings. I'm sure they'll express their gratitude by killing the Times's staff last.

Bush forced her to get an abortion?!?!

Blogger Freeman Hunt absolutely shreds an astonishing WaPo op-ed. Not to be missed!