… something to write home about.

• the day star! it burnsss us! #
• There is something to be said for beating the living shit out of an inanimate object instead of the person you’re really pissed off at. #

The wonderfully surreal and mathematically proficient XKCD comic…

The Discovery Channel commercial, “World Is Awesome” (also known as “Boom de ah dah”)

Mix the two together, shake, blend, pour…

Voila!

http://xkcd.com/442/

Just perfect.

(Super Doctorow!)

Today the New York Times released an article describing how the shape of Mars is lopsided and a novel explanation of how it got that way.

Astronomers Explain Mars’s Lopsided Shape

I took one look and realized just how this came to be – Dave Lister was playing pool with planets again!