NASA Science News for July 20, 2004 A cutting-edge Apollo 11 science experiment is still running today, 35 years after astronauts left it behind in the Sea of Tranquility.
I Have a New Writerly Hero
New Details of Cheney/Leahy Confrontation Thanks mrpsyklops!
Anybody Heard of This Before?
ICDL – International Computer Driving Licence The syllabus is here.
Orwellian Editing of the Congressional Record
This is the second instance I’ve heard of in the last six months wherein the Congressional Record has been edited to reflect a particular party’s views. Whatever one thinks of Representative Brown’s statements, I find that kind of rewriting of…
Poetry Fix
The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once by X.J. Kennedy, from The Lords of Misrule. Suppose your life a folded telescope Durationless, collapsed in just a flash As from your mother’s womb you, bawling, drop…
Gay Marriage/Non-Monogamy
What does marriage mean?