I went from Slashdot to an article on similarities between Mario Bros. 2 and Doki Doki Panic. This made me laugh. BOM You’ll recall that when a bomb explodes in Mario 2, the explosion reads “BOMB,” just so there isn’t any confusion as to what just exploded. In Doki Doki Panic, the explosion reads “BOM,”…Continue Reading…
I heard mention about one of Japan’s failed space missions. Until now, I’ve been largely ignorant that space exploration existed anywhere outside the United States. So I looked it up. The first site I found is NASDA, the “National Space Development Agency of Japan.” Along with awkward English, their front page says: We hope that…Continue Reading…
There’s my attempt at writing a passionate and ridiculous statement in order to get comments. Seriously though, I don’t pretend to be an expert. So why do so many of my posts go by with no comments? I was thinking about this today before I read junger’s post about this very topic. He asks, “What…Continue Reading…
NASA uses duct tape to save the day. It secures “British astronaut Piers Sellers to his jet-propelled backpack today for the final spacewalk of the shuttle Discovery’s 13-day mission to the International Space Station.” I have patch stickers for this flight, STS-121. By the way, the saying goes: “Duct tape is like the Force. It…Continue Reading…
I was thinking of titling this as Reuters Sucks, but decided that would be too harsh. As I was reading Slashdot tonight, I saw this: Reuters offers correction to Wikipedia slam. junger writes “Reuters put out a hit piece on Wikipedia, saying that the encyclopedia wasn’t credible in ‘covering’ the breaking news of the death…Continue Reading…
I picked up a Yoplait nouriche SuperSmoothie from the 167 Cafe, and under the cap, the seal read: Vitamin A For X-ray vision Intrigued, I went to Google and typed in “vitamin a” “for x-ray vision” Only four (4) results were returned. Thank goodness for MySpace blogs (I never thought I’d say that!) — the…Continue Reading…