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Stavros sums it up

EmptyBottle.org: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower sums up, in brevity, wot the hell the ol’ canuck was yammering aboot the other day.

If you didn’t take the time to read the whole thing (and you should, it was a doozy, and I was not alone in noticing it) you might check out his boil-down. The boil-down leaves much less room for interpretation. I think I agree with these ideas all the way. Especially #7.

Although, now that I think of it: could we get a powerpoint presentation, please?

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Is Spirit dead on Mars?

Spaceflight Now: Spirit rover suffers ‘serious anomaly’

After a day of troubleshooting, engineers have not yet been able to restore communications with the Spirit rover, which stopped beaming back science and engineering data Wednesday. Project manager Pete Theisinger at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., described the situation as “a very serious anomaly,” but said it was too soon to say what might be causing the problem, whether it might be potentially fatal or whether the spacecraft can be restored to normal operation.

Gahhhh.

Maybe they pulled funding already, this being an unmanned mission? That’s a joke,sort of.

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news, meet blog, blog, meet trolls

seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog: Mike Rowe, future CEO? muses Todd Bishop at the PI MSBlog.

Google News picks it up (hey, the URL is a legit P-I link, right?) and the fun begins. Dozens of trolling Mike Rowes, a Steve Jobs, a Bill Gates, a Linus Torvalds, and many other puns are made.

Hey Todd! Please don’t delete the comments! There’s something vaguely historical happening here. I suppose, however, some of them might get bounced for direct threats.