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There will be a new Sloan album in June. Here’s hoping it’s even pinker and more filler-packed and more non-playable-in-some-car-stereos than the last!

boeing patents lunar flyby

Techdirt has the tale of a satellite launch gone awry. The satellite in question could still be nudged into its intended orbit, but Boeing has a patent on the process of doing a lunar flyby and returning to earth orbit, and it refuses to license the patent to SES, who launched the satellite.
In other patenting-elementary-math-and-physics [...]

saramago’s “blindness” to be committed to film

Firstshowing.net has a teaser trailer for Blindness, the upcoming film adaptation of Jose Saramago’s excellent novel about an epidemic of “white blindness” and the plight of the one woman (played in the film by Julianne Moore) who can still see.
I’m looking forward to this. I like stories about society collapsing in novel ways.
Update: Don McKellar [...]

cool dry place: salacious springbok

I’m trying out WordPress. Again. The results may be viewed at cool dry place: unstable branch.

wheeled ninjas

The race cars are back. More to come.

this is a very small pond

They Might Be Giants music video = robot Julius Caesar.
Also, highlights from “distro day” in my Linux class:
Common Questions About Puppy Linux: A Poster (CQAPL:AP)
By Regan
Q. Is Puppy Linux made by Puppies?
A. No. That’s just not possible.
Q. Is Puppy Linux made for puppies?
A. No. Why would puppies need Linux?
Q. Is Puppy Linux made out of [...]

gwb dubs new chinese poison czar "asian marcie" — she calls him "sir"

So now we know what Honey Huan’s been up to since her split with Duke. She seems to have landed on her feet.

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Lee Mercer! It’s like he’s running for president on a platform of it’s my homework assignment for grade ten civics class. Remedial stream. [via overcompensating]

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Fun Factoids from the “On This Day” box at the Wikipedia Main Page:

June 18 is Autistic Pride Day, in celebration of “neurodiversity,” a quality measured by the autistic spectrum. The autistic spectrum is a rainbow bent into an infinity sign. Because the best way to cope with what’s been diagnosed as sluggish cognitive tempo is [...]

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Otto von Habsburg has got nothing on Wolfe+585, Senior.