Cool Picture Watch (with apologies to Andrew Sullivan’s cool ad watch)
Via Wired.
Pimp. Very, very pimp. Star Wars: The Old Republic at IGN.com
NASA boys and girls, on their way to get it done with the Hubble Space Telescope, pass between the earth and the sun: A huge h/t to Thierry Legault, amateur astronomer. Take it away, boys!
This is a picture of Richard Branson. A billionaire. Kite surfing off the coast of his own private island. With a naked supermodel clinging to his back. Unclear if this was playing on his island’s loudspeakers:
Not a whole lot folks in this world get paid good money to “kick ass and take names” (among many other things). Well, that’s just what the SEALs get paid to do. And they are damn good at it.
All across the media spectrum political reporters are crashing.
It seems that even paradise can go bankrupt. But no worry, the little archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa is looking to raise fresh capital by: promoting the country’s longstanding virtue of being an off-shore business haven, with no corporate tax, no minimum capital requirements, only one shareholder or director required, [...]
She was once a talented young movie actress with almost unlimited potential. And then she took a wrong turn into the nihilistic end of western civilization’s celebrity swimming pool. Sad. h/t Ariane M.
A reader responds to another reader’s Ole Miss smackdown: I feel like I need to respond to last week’s “Vandy comment” This weekend the Ole Miss Rebels went on the road and played Vandy in a 3-game SEC series this in Nashville, and the Rebels won the series and nearly had a three game sweep. [...]
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