Deep thoughts from XKCD.com

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

Image and text from xkcd.com , one of my favorite social commentaries

..hades in a handbasket....

Appalling spy machine gets appalling new functionality, Obscure blogger deletes account in protest and blogs about it in the third person... No one notices, (no one even reads the blog post, until now) inadvertently supporting the bloggers heretofore untested hypothesis that social networking services as popularly implemented are more oriented toward self gratification and social autoeroticism than meaningful social interaction.

Semi-stable, Quasi-Islamic state thumbs its nose at non proliferation treaty, proceeds to increase weapon-usable uranium production. "Allah is pleased,"  non-crazy people deeply concerned.


Have a nice day!