First Paul, Then MetaFilter note an Aviation Week story covering what may be a now-cancelled black-ops operational orbital space plane.
Container ship aground south of Tijuana
[via Monkeyfilter] The full-laden containership M/V APL Panama beached in northern Baja Mexico on Christmas day. The ensuing mayhem has been amusingly & anachronistically CHRONICLED by correspondents unknown upon the PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN TO ME web-site of Countryman & McDaniel, attorneys-at-law.
Speeding Mortorcycle
Daniel Johnston, back in the news, this time as NYT-dubbed ‘rising gallery star.’
Carded
Currently squirreled away somewhere in move boxes: my library card. Bummer.
Game
Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin’s The Hunting Party.
Comet Crash?
Hannah Levin asks about rumors concerning the sale (and imputed demise) of the sainted Comet, chez Slog. Commenters finger Caffe Vitta as the likely culprit.
On a side note, Slog, please adopt conventional article-and-comment linky pages such that your occasional flashes of wit may become more widely disseminated. Thank you.
Yarrr
NYT: A Cancer Drug Shows Promise, at a Price That Many Can’t Pay: “Genentech plans to charge about $100,000 a year for the drug Avastin as a treatment for breast and lung cancer.”
It certainly shows evidence of a well thought-out marketing program when you name your only-for-the-wealthy drug after a pre-boarding pirate cry.
OG VP
KUOW just said that Dick Cheney has accidentally shot someone while on a hunting trip. It appears that the news is too fresh to have any links yet. I wonder if the shootee happened to say “Go fuck yourself” either prior to or shortly after eating hot vice-presidential lead.
The shootee, Harry Whittington, is described as a 78 year old. Could he be the pulp fiction author of “Web of Murder“? Probably not, as that gent is said to have died in 1990.
UPDATE: Note to self: do not approach the veep from behind.
Rara Avis
An NYT article on a pair of long-lived diabetic brothers, 86 and 90, respectively – both men contracted the disease as children – notes the relative paucity of long lives among Type I diabetics:
“They’re a little bit obsessive about their records and their diets,” said Dr. George L. King, research director of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School. He heads a study of people who have lived with diabetes for at least 50 years — more than 400 of them, so far.
They arrive at the center, he said, carrying “years and years of records, sometimes decades,” showing medical tests, blood sugar readings, insulin doses, exercise, even daily food consumption. “Most of them do quite a bit of exercise, they are more careful about their health than even most diabetics, and they also have a very positive outlook.”
Hm. I can’t describe Viv as obsessive, and she’s not 50 yet by a long shot; but there’s no way she won’t see it. She certainly does a great job with maintenance and has a great attitude.
Four hundred? She’s rarer than I’d have thought. We’re both lucky!
Olive live
Olive, a “console mode RSS aggregator.”