Auction: Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis) props now on auction!

Oh boy. Diesel....don't spend too much (though if you do, let me know if I can help finance ha!)

How-to: Survive a 35K foot fall - Popular Mechanics

Yeah...people should read this before getting on a plane. Assuming, of course, they don't want to sleep on said plane or for any days leading up to said flight. Eeeesh.

News: Mirimax ('Pulp Fiction', 'Clerks', etc) studio closes

End of an era. Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, and others got their start at this indy-haven. It will be missed....

Cool: Highlander: The Series back on TV!!! Reason to watch Syfy

I boycotted Syfy after the name change, so maybe I missed a commercial. But, my favorite (guilty geeky pleasure) show is back on TV! Highlander airs (apparently) once nightly. Though, it doesn't garner a spot on the "Shows" listing on Syfy's website. Odd. Whatever gets it on TV, but odd.

Sports: Junior might be back? I like it!

Ken Griffey Jr. 'better than last year' after knee surgery. Junior...any time you want to come back, go for it, man!

Cool: Highlander: The Series back on TV!!! Reason to watch Syfy

I boycotted Syfy after the name change, so maybe I missed a commercial. But, my favorite (guilty geeky pleasure) show is back on TV! Highlander airs (apparently) once nightly. Though, it doesn't garner a spot on the "Shows" listing on Syfy's website. Odd. Whatever gets it on TV, but odd.

News: DOJ approves Live Nation, Ticketmaster merger

Oh goody....

News: Austrian to attemp to break sound barrier while skydiving

Yikes. Wouldn't you be a bit scared that breaking the sound barrier sans-machine/proctection would....I don't know...shatter your eardrums? Make your eyes pop out? Pull off your face? Something?

Comic: SMBC 1/22/10

About filth thresholds. Men have higher filth thresholds. Women will always WANT something to be cleaned earlier on than a man will. Hence, so much hostility around cleaning things. I don't think it's dirty, I'm not going to clean it all on my own. You think it's dirty and would like my help cleaning it, just ask! But we won't do it on our own.

News: NASA 'Puffin' is coolest vehicle since jetpack

Might even be cooler. Stand up helicopter can go horizontal after take-off for speedy (130-300 mph) travel and then land again vertically. Solo flight, 50 mile radius, BATTERY powered.

You know what, nevermind. I don't want a jetpack for Christmas anymore.

Op-Ed: Build transit, not roads, to boost jobs

Building public transportation makes more jobs than building/fixing roads. Wired asks Congress to note this fact when passing the Jobs for Main Street Act.

SCOTUS: Eases restrictions on campaign spending for corporations

We should be STRENGTHENING these limits, not easing them!

Corporations should not be given the power to use profits to influence politics. Individuals, fine...money is speech. Not sure I agree, but fine. But corporations?

Corporations are treated as people, though they shouldn't be. A business makes money from people buy selling products and services these people want. But buying these things is NOT a representation that they also support the businesses political leaning/ambitions. The business should not be treated as a person in this case and there should be NO political contributions from it.

The owner and shareholders of said business should be able to spend their own money freely and openly for whatever political campaign they choose.

Or at least they should be able to for the purposes of this argument.

News: McCain's wife, daughter back CA pro-gay marriage movement

The daughter isn't so surprising, as she's quite publicly pro-gay marriage. The wife surprised me though.

News: John Edwards admits fathering child

Knew he was too good to be true. All sorts of girls falling head over heels for him...just had to know something wasn't quite right. Sure enough...

Study: Youth spend 7 hours 38 minutes online daily

Like a freakin job. How about you quit that and learn a skill, like underwater basket weaving?