“World’s most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space”      (more…)

XKCD comments.

It’s like the giant laser in the Death Star. So long as you hit more or less in the center of the planet, the exact targeting isn’t terribly important.

Nordlinger reports:

Hang on, I see now on Drudge a story from the New York Post. It quotes a woman calling herself Leslie, a denizen of Zuccotti Park. She speaks of two rapes, then says, “We don’t tell anyone. We handle it internally. I said too much already.”

Uh-huh. I wonder whether there is an Occupy Wall Street omertà.

Well, the evidence seems pretty strong.

The antigravity Slinky.

The physics is perfectly correct and straightforward, but nonetheless startling.

I’m seeing some interesting parallels. In particular, both groups have legitimate grievances, but the legitimate grievances aren’t what’s driving most of those in both groups.

And the proposed solution, if any, in each case, is appalling.

His Hehness notices.

Making Halloween blandly safe. Warning: Reason is not known for genteel speech in its comments sections, though the articles themselves are usually okay.   (more…)

Althouse discusses an innovative use of vacant Big Box store space.

And the quote is precious.

Infrared evidence that most of the Occupy protestor tents remained unoccupied at night.

Colby Cosh is back to form with the best thing he’s written in many months, a sweetly gentle piece of cynicism.

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You can’t make this stuff up:   (more…)

A bit of a short thought for today.    (more…)

Letter to editor argues for moving the deer crossing to where there’s less traffic.

[The paragraph below comes from Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard. The eclipse next May 20 will be annular, not total, so there will be no screaming.]

The second before the sun went out we saw a wall of dark shadow come speeding at us. We no sooner saw it than it was upon us, like thunder. It roared up the valley. It slammed our hill and knocked us out. It was the monstrous swift shadow cone of the moon. (more…)

Muammar Qaddafi reported dead.

I hope, when my times comes, that it is not said of me that the greatest blessing I bestowed on the world was leaving it.

His Majesty: “You won’t care. You’ll be dead.”