Beauty in Shorts
k.d. lang does the Olympic Games
I don’t know if you got a chance to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics, but k.d. lang’s performance of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” was probably the highlight of the entire show.
k.d. lang sings Cohen's "Hallelujah" at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
As one P.H.B. commenter put it, “A song about God that was written by a Jew and sung by a lesbian. And God didn’t flatten the place.” The song is available on iTunes as part of the Hallelujah EP.
We <3 Higher Education
Looks like I might need to start reading The Chronicle of Higher Education…
"At McDaniel College, in Westminster, Md., Colin Miller got a shot of a fellow student getting air (and some goosebumps) on a snowboard..." (click it)
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling warmer, all of a sudden..
Snowmageddon à la Flickr
Here’s the latest images of Snowmageddon from the Official Flickr feed!
Is this America?
Watch all of this, and if you’re still not worried about the Tea Party movement…
The pain of DADT in 137 words.
“Try never mentioning your spouse, your family, your home, your girlfriend or boyfriend to anyone you know or work with – just for one day. Take that photo off your desk at work, change the pronoun you use for your spouse to the opposite gender, guard everything you might say or do so that no one could know you’re straight, shut the door in your office if you have a personal conversation if it might come up. Try it. Now imagine doing it for a lifetime. It’s crippling; it warps your mind; it destroys your self-esteem. These men and women are voluntarily risking their lives to defend us. And we are demanding they live lives like this in order to do so. Yes, Admiral Mullen. It is about integrity. It’s also about a minimum of human respect.”
- Andrew Sullivan, responding to the National Review’s Rich Lowry.
Reprinted after reading J.M.G.
I think it’s Snow Madness.
(7:24:05 PM) aakins: Check your email
(7:24:13 PM) aakins: Today’s the same as yesterday
(7:24:28 PM) protella: …
(7:24:29 PM) jzamudio: what?
(7:24:38 PM) protella: aaron is living in the “30min ago”
(7:24:57 PM) jzamudio: it’s called rll
(7:24:59 PM) protella: and he’s also getting his todays and tomorrows and yesterdays mixed up
(7:24:59 PM) jzamudio: real life lag
(7:25:01 PM) protella: haha
(7:25:30 PM) protella: snolatency?
(7:25:30 PM) aakins: lol
(7:25:35 PM) aakins: HAHAHAHAHA
(7:25:44 PM) jzamudio: snowpacket loss?
(7:26:00 PM) protella: awe man.. we’re pretty bad… haha
(7:26:04 PM) aakins: ahaahahahaaa
(7:26:59 PM) jzamudio: hmm.. he might be laughing at a joke from this morning. cant’ tell
(7:27:11 PM) protella: hehe
(7:29:13 PM) protella: its like snotrilo lag.. all comes in at once after they fixed his intarwebs… was buffering for 48hours!
(7:29:41 PM) jzamudio: wow you’re really reaching for that one.
Bellus III
This is Ariel Iglesias, by Didio. Absolutely beautiful.
Ariel Iglesias, by Didio (click for more).
SGU? BJS!
I’m a perennial Stargate fan. I’ve loved every Stargate show and movie ever made, and the ends of the Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis shows were very sad days for me. So you can imagine how pleased I was when I heard about Stargate Universe – and when I saw the first episode… stoked!! The best thing about Stargate Universe: Brian Jacob Smith.
Brian Jacob Smith (click for more!).
Totally cute, right? You can check out his highly entertaining Twitter page, and that of co-star David Blue.
Metal Foam
Metal Foam?!
Calculations also predict that in car accidents, when two pieces of [Dr. Rabiei's] composite metal foam are inserted “behind the bumper of a car traveling at 28 mph, the impact would feel the same to passengers as an impact traveling at only 5 mph.”
There have got to be hundreds of thousands of other applications for this material. I wonder how difficult it is to mass produce?
