• Hot Off The Presses

    Atlantis In Orbit

    September 9, 2006 - By 

    Space Shuttle Full Coverage on Yahoo! News My husband David and I watched the launch live just now – as they neared a critical point in the ascent, the voice from Mission Control said “You are go for throttle up.” David commented “I hate that phrase.” But all went well, and they’re safely in orbit. Whew. The Chicago Tribune adds: On the ground, NASA kept an eye on several cameras zoomed in on Atlantis as the shuttle streaked into space for any signs of hard foam breaking off its large external fuel tank, the problem that doomed Columbia. A preliminary…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    Christianity for COMPLETE IDIOTS

    September 9, 2006 - By 

    I received an odd email at my inbox as webmistress for the Holy Moly website the other day. It looked like spam, but was crackpotty enough to warrant a second look: Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to draw your attention to a new interactive Christian support site which also includes absolute proof for Christianity. The proof is to be used for a peaceful global mass conversion to the true Christian faith. www.churchalive.co.uk Username: xxxxx Password: xxxxx The archived information is also available at www.worldends.co.uk (no password), which I hope will soon be available in many languages. Grace be with you,…

  • Photos and Shutterblogs

    Moon Shot: What Color Is It, Really?

    September 8, 2006 - By 

    broadband � Forums � Digital Imaging � What Color is the Moon, Really? Check out this gorgeous, hypersaturated moon shot from DSL Reports‘ NoelC. It’s now my desktop image, and a very handsome one it is, too. My husband David and our friend Steve spend time at DSLR, and we’ve been to the local picnic events, too.

  • Movies - Perfectly Dreadful Movies

    BeerFest: Probably A Perfectly Dreadful Movie

    September 7, 2006 - By 

    I was checking local movie listings just now, and spotted a potential Perfectly Dreadful Movie contendah. Anything I find bwah-worthy (possibly spit-takeworthy) will be in bold:   Beerfest – Movie Details – Yahoo! Movies   When American brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse travel to Germany to spread their grandfather’s ashes at Oktoberfest, they stumble upon a super-secret, centuries old, underground beer games competition–“Beerfest,” the secret Olympics of beer drinking. The brothers receive a less than warm welcome from their German cousins, the Von Wolfhausens (because evil German cousins are always the Von Somethings), who humiliate Todd and Jan, slander their…

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2006-09-07

    September 6, 2006 - By 

    BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush admits to CIA secret prisons Just in time for the 5 year anniversary (tags: 911 Bush terror torture secretprisons cynical) 9/11 lung ailments linked to WTC air | Chicago Tribune (tags: 911 lung)

  • Music

    Actic Monkeys: Mercury Winning

    September 6, 2006 - By 

    BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arctic Monkeys win Mercury prize   Woohoo!! I love me some Arctic Monkeys. They make me feel not middle-aged (which I really am).   Arctic Monkeys have won this year’s Mercury Prize for their album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.   The Sheffield-based band, whose album became the fastest-selling debut in the UK in February, were strong favourites to take the award. Now maybe I’ll figure out how to get Last.fm and Audioscrobbler working. iTunes: Arctic Monkeys: Dancing Shoes: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not [2:21]

  • Music

    American Routes’ Labor Day Special

    September 4, 2006 - By 

    American Routes: radio show from New Orleans Monday, 9–11 am: For four months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, American Routes stayed on the air in the French Louisiana city of Lafayette. In this two-hour special, host Nick Spitzer revisits many artists who were displaced by the storms—including Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, David and Michael Doucet, and Aaron Neville. Plus, music and conversation by Wynton Marsalis and Ghanaian master dummer Yacub Addy, recorded live in New Orleans’s famed Congo Square.   I’m listening to the Labor Day show of this excellent music program. It’s outstanding, and they just played one of…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    RIP: Steve Irwin

    September 4, 2006 - By 

    ABC News: Stingray Kills ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin No, it wasn’t a croc that got him in the end, but a stingray thwapped him in the chest with the barbed tip of its tail. Irwin will be immortalized as the “Crikey!” guy who got right up close to dangerous animal. In this case, a few times too many…but I’ll always remember him as yet another celebrity baby-dangler.