Funny
“The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.”
John Ciardi
US poet (1916 – 1986)
Intellectual
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 – 1969)
Travel
“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.”
Charles Kuralt
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25
RT @spacefuture The “Hubble Effect” -A New Picture of the Universe #space http://bit.ly/c4SUMJ #
RT @digg_sciences “Russian Shuttle Clone: The Original Unmanned Space Flight” – http://ping.fm/x8rzg #
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Astronomy Picture of the Week – Jupiter from Voyager:
This photo of Jupiter featuring the […] http://bit.ly/bxOvxJ
Love & Happiness
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)
Humor
“Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”
Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)
Peace
“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”
George C. Marshall
US general (1880 – 1959)
Imagination
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso
Spanish Cubist painter (1881 – 1973)
Technology
“Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.”
Putt’s Law
Committees
“To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.”
Robert Copeland
Astronomy Picture of the Week – Jupiter from Voyager
This photo of Jupiter featuring the Great Red Spot was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it flew-by the planet in 1979. The Great Red Spot is a giant hurricane-like storm rotating in the planet’s atmosphere. It is so large that three Earth’s would fit inside. It is still unclear as to how old […] http://bit.ly/ab51ub
