- Event of the week: Germany made it into the EURO 2008 finals! They will play against Spain on Sunday 2:45 pm ECT.
- Most bizzare news of the week: Banana over Texas doesn't fly
- If the world could vote... we could just make Obama president and save a lot of money on more campaigning.
- Picture of the Week: Sunset over Mars
(Click for larger version. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Texas A&M/Cornell) - Quotation of the week:
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.”
~ Winston Churchill
Maybe Churchill should have worked on N = 8 Supergravity.
ReplyDeletecomplex isn't the same as complicated.
ReplyDeleteGermans proudly may say A. D. Merkel (Kasner) know better.
ReplyDeleteEvery African must have a metallized polyester smiley balloon floating on the veldt before even one Texan gets his banana up. That will compassionately save the Earth for our children!
ReplyDeleteAnyone in Europe raising a squawk about this?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4232264.ece
Or few care about privacy any more?
Congratulations to Spain!
ReplyDeleteThe second half was their match, definitely!
Well Bee,
ReplyDeletethe better team (SPAIN) won this One.
No comeback for Germany this time.
Stefan & Bee,
ReplyDeleteas a famous philosopher once said "You can't always get what you want.."
Where was the last minute goal everybody expected?
Dear Bee & Stefan
ReplyDeleteI think you'll really enjoy this - as an example of how to deal with anti-science nutcases:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/30/93525/3649/33/544056
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/30/93525/3649/33/544056
Best,
-Arun
Hi Bee and Stefan,
ReplyDeleteWhat a 1-0 surprise!
From a comment on a blog:
ReplyDelete"I should note in passing that with the ascension of former East German Communists into the unified German government, and with the more centralized European Union, some of the exceptional and strong privacy protections built into West German law after World War II have now changed, and a surveillance state is settling into that country, to the extent that some are calling today's Germany "DDR Lite" (DDR were the initials of the official name of former East Germany)."
which is evidently the biggest nonsense I've read in a while.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bee!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, here is another one - German police shutting down a website -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/10/54956/7928/948/549251