There will be bananas in space!

Specifically, a banana in space over Texas! It will be launched in 2008 and float over Texas for a month or so.

A banana. Made out of bamboo.

No word on floating cherries or floating whipped cream.

[Via Wired]

Quote to take away from this?
“We want the banana to steer itself”

Oh, the fun they’ll have!!

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The Democrats in Congress ought to create a particular tax break.

It shouldn’t be a permanent tax break mind you. Ten years, perhaps.

If you win a trip to outer space, the value of the trip shouldn’t be considered as income unless you sell that trip for cash.

Uncle Sam spoils dream trip to space

There should be no reason why people have to pay money to the government for a trip into outer space.

What’s “outer space” for purposes of tax consideration? Why don’t we make it 120,000 ft for argument’s sake. Yes, I want to go. No, I don’t want to pay the IRS so I can.

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The grey wolf is off the endangered species list.
I need a royalty free pic of the face of a grey wolf for a project.
The deadlier looking the better.

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The WOW starts NOW

Windows website changes the look to coincide with the Vista sale to the public starting at midnight tonight.

Uh, no, don’t stay up to grab your own copy.

Your next PC will have Vista, but unless you are compelled, upgrading from XP isn’t that important.

Upgrading from Windows 98 or ME? Yes. Oh, wait. If you’re on Win98, you’re too broke to afford a computer.

UPDATE: If you are upgrading, you have to have a copy of XP or Win2k actually installed on the machine. What will this mean? It means that if the install of Vista fails, you might have to wipe the entire disk, install XP and THEN upgrade to Vista. [link]

Oh, this should be fun…

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If you love something, let it go.

Adobe gives up its hold on PDF creation. [press release that is NOT in a PDF format!]

“… and if it doesn’t come back to you, hunt it down and kill it!”

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HEAVY promotion of Nora Roberts’ LIFETIME movies.

If you go to Lifetimetv.com you can pick up a couple of chapters of some book that she wrote, but that’s not why I’m mentioning her.

I’m mentioning Nora Roberts because she’s featured on a new website launching in just a few days.

Very slickly done Flash site for videos of romance authors
RomanceNovelTv.com

I’m not sure spending that much money on a site is going to be worth it, but I do like some of the features… like not being able to copy the videos off the website.

We’ll see how the content is freshened up as time goes by.

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K-FedEx is in a commercial that will air during the SuperBowl

Reportedly, there are some fast food workers that are complaining, but it’s GOTTA be all for show. It’s all nonsense. I’ve seen the commercial, and it’s not even worth a mention, other than to say that it’s not worth a mention. K-Fed plays a hot to trot rap star but apparently, all those music video montage cuts in the first part of the commercial are dashed at the quick cut resolution, where K-Fed is actually being yelled at to provide the french fries. It’s an insurance or some investment advertisement.

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It’s politics. It’s Hollywood. It’s weird.

Tom Cruise’s name, and that of his then girlfriend Penelope Cruz, have surfaced during testimony in the recently begun Scooter Libby trial.
link

Life isn’t supposed to make sense. Just nod your head and keep on truckin’.

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Wish I’d said it first:

There’s so many people running for President, there’s not enough Americans to go around

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PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her group’s overall goal as “total animal liberation.” This means no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no wool, no leather, no hunting, no fishing, and no pets (not even seeing-eye dogs).

Just a reminder of why I like animals.
They’re fun, friendly, useful and tasty.

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The former Executive Director of the Holocaust Memorial Council, Monroe Freedman, confirmed a report that he had received a note from Jimmy Carter complaining that there were “too many Jews” on the Holocaust Memorial Council. [link]

Oh, this will go over well.

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I’m still watching HEROES instead of 24

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ROME, the HBO series, had it’s third episode of its second and last season last night.

I like it, but I do wince when guy’s are slipping the salami to the other guys. Last night, one was uh, consensual, and the other decidedly not.

Overall, the show is better this season than last, even though there’s less nekkid FEMALE Romans flopping about. However, if you like the naked male form, this show is for you!

You just have to accept you’ll see the occasional rotting human head.

Oh, and for those of you who are watching the show regularly, the role of Octavian will be played by a new actor starting this next week.

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JERICHO comes back on CBS soon, and they’ll roll the clock back to 36 hours before the first nuclear bomb exploded on the show. Watching nuclear bombs go off in America seems to be a big ratings draw these days. Unless the show tells us something we REALLY want to know, this looks to be a shark jumping moment.

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100,000 people showed up in Washington DC to announce to the world they want to go to Iraq to be human shields for the terrorists. [Yahoo]

Yeah, I’m just kidding you. It’s just that the anti-war movement has been so emboldened by the political gains the Dems made, the anti-war movement thought they’d do something they could do in America — protest without the risk of someone coming along and blowing themselves up.

I’m happy they protested. In America we do things like that. Protest the government’s actions without fear of being jailed.

I just think it’s ironic that they’re protesting to have the same right virtually removed from another country.

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10zenmonkeys has 20 really interesting things about America’s nastiest spy, Howard Hunt who recently passed away.

Yes, it’s entirely possible that Howard Hunt was on the grassy knoll when JFK was shot.

And Hunt definitely had a motive.

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It’s a kid’s show. It’s a search for a wizard. [BBC]

Oh, and by the way kiddies… SNAPE KILLED DUMBLEDORE!