Backreaction: This and That

By Bee on Sunday, June 29, 2008

This and That

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

Labels: This and That

13 Comments:

At 10:51 AM, June 29, 2008, Mark A. Thomas said...: Maybe Churchill should have worked on N = 8 Supergravity.
At 11:07 AM, June 29, 2008, Bee said...: complex isn't the same as complicated.
At 11:18 AM, June 29, 2008, X said...: Germans proudly may say A. D. Merkel (Kasner) know better.
At 1:33 PM, June 29, 2008, Uncle Al said...: Every 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!
At 4:19 PM, June 29, 2008, Arun said...: Anyone in Europe raising a squawk about this?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4232264.ece

Or few care about privacy any more?
At 5:29 PM, June 29, 2008, stefan said...: Congratulations to Spain!
The second half was their match, definitely!
At 8:47 PM, June 29, 2008, QUASAR9 said...: Well Bee,
the better team (SPAIN) won this One.
No comeback for Germany this time.
At 7:48 AM, June 30, 2008, wolfgang said...: Stefan & Bee,

as a famous philosopher once said "You can't always get what you want.."

Where was the last minute goal everybody expected?
At 3:58 PM, June 30, 2008, Arun said...: Dear Bee & Stefan
I 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
At 6:13 PM, July 01, 2008, Doug said...: Hi Bee and Stefan,
What a 1-0 surprise!
At 7:56 AM, July 09, 2008, Arun said...: From a comment on a blog:

"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)."
At 7:58 AM, July 09, 2008, Bee said...: which is evidently the biggest nonsense I've read in a while.
At 4:03 PM, July 10, 2008, Arun said...: Thanks, Bee!

Anyway, here is another one - German police shutting down a website -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/10/54956/7928/948/549251

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