Category Archives: politics
Alien Ant Colony
Popular Science has gotten their hands on some amazing satellite photography of yesterday’s inauguration on the National Mall. The amount of people and the crowds formed and grouped looks indistinguishable from a colony of ants coming though the cracks of a sidewalk. The sidewalk in this case also having a miniature sundial shaped like the Washington Monument and the White House.
If the imagery and resolution of the ground wasn’t amazing enough [at a 19.6inch ground resolution], one commenter points out:
If you look at the full size image, you can actually see another satellite in the top left corner.
That’s some depth of field!
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At The Center Of The Universe
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Glad We’re Coming To Our Senses
Happy to see that law enforcement can still be level headed on occasion. From The Register on the case of the 3 cell phone buying entrepreneurs1 come terrorists:
The FBI said Monday that it had no information to indicate that the men in custody had any ties to terrorist organisations, the Associated Press reports. Nevertheless, the local police and prosecutors seem persuaded that they’ve foiled a dastardly plot, and appear prepared, for now, to go through with the prosecutions.
Wait, what?
1 Oh come on, you know you’d be the first to set up an eBay store if you found out this scheme could be profitable!
The Best Interview Ever!
No, I’m not talking about the Dateline interview with Britney Spears.
And its not the Jay Leno show where he booked Ann Coulter and George Carlin back to back.
Its my new (again) hero Stephen Colbert interviewing the Congressman from the Georgia 8th District Lynn Westmoreland. He’s the man that co-sposored a bill to display the 10 Commandments in Congress, and when put on the spot by Stephen he can’t name more then 3 of them! As usual crooks and liars has the video. Its a must watch.
So take 5 minutes out of your day, regardless of your political leaning, and have a laugh (or maybe a good cry).
New Jersey: Place Slogan Here?
Sometimes it takes so little to make me laugh.
$260,000 sunk into a state slogan —tossed.
Elaborate contest where you too can write the new state motto takes place and a new motto found.
But wait just a second!
N.J. Scraps New Slogan; It’s Been Used
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey officials had said the new state slogan — “Come See for Yourself” — would highlight the Garden State’s true beauty.
But it turns out that at least one other state already had the same idea.
State tourism officials say they have canned the slogan because some states, including West Virginia, have used it in the past.
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UPDATE: Fark is on the case
The Crime: Patriotic Photography
I’m loath to make a big deal of this before the customary five corrections that BoingBoing makes to any article—but, uh, what the hell?
