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Sink Positive

A sink that mounts on top of your toilet(s), running clean water automatically as the bowl fills after a flush. You’re not washing your hands in toilet water, you’re washing your hands right before it becomes toilet water. Environmentally friendly, elegantly simple and pretty dang smart.

James Brown Dancing Lesson

(video)

Ron Paul on Meet the Press

Tim Russert is breaking Ron Paul’s balls the whole time yet Ron does a pretty good job of keeping his cool. I’d like to see an interview like this conducted over correspondence where each side has more time to consider and prepare their responses.

Milkywayset

(time-lapse video of Milky Way setting on Earth’s horizon)

HTV-3X Scramjet

“If it works, the HTV-3X will be the first reusable scramjet-powered plane. It will be able to take off from a runway, fly at speeds of up to Mach 6, land safely, and then do it again.”

Sex In Space

Put a bunch of humans on a tiny ship on a 6 month trip to Mars and, you can imagine. Astronauts need to do it like anyone else, especially if the mission counts on their mental and physical well-being.

Skribit: Social Topic Suggestions

If you look at the sidebar on this website, you’ll see I’ve added a section for topic suggestions. I’m using a new widget called Skribit that lets you not only submit ideas to this blog but vote on other people’s suggestions as well. Ideas can be as general as “more music” like has already been [...]

FFFFOUND! Redux

This is my response to an image recently promoted to the top of social image bookmarking site, FFFFOUND!.

Tallest Buildings of the Old World

(image)

New Images of Europa

There’s a high-res version of the above collage that makes the detail in the bottom-most view of Europa really stunning. Images recently reprocessed by Ted Stryk from original Galileo telemetry.

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