Man who worked on alien spaceships now selling radioactive material on web

Yes, really. I'm not making this up:

http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196513797

The first sport in space

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061123/sc_nm/space_golf_dc

oh happy day!

Back in 2000, I remember a friend telling me that "we were all going to die" after Dubya was named the winner of the election. While we haven't yet, it has been pretty much all downhill for the US since then.

Yesterday, we had good news and today it got even better... :)

Mac lovers will appreciate this:

If women ruled the world...

Further evidence that women are more rational beings...

the presence of more women at the FIFA World Cup this past summer helped keep the fans sane:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=a.03NA3sUyWU&refer=germany

We have the first woman as speaker of the house... how much longer will take to have one in the white house?

deep thoughts by sam shady...

what do we seek out of life?

personal gain or public gain.

Perhaps a mixture of both - maybe we seek happiness (or knowledge) and by bringing others joy (or education), we please ourselves. We are innately compassionate and do not want to survive alone, even if we choose to live alone.

Does someone who lives a life of solitude, but contributes to the advancement of society through art or literature affect greater social change than someone who deeply touches the lives of people through personal interaction?

Would I rather foster new thought or profoundly affect someone's life with love, laughter, comfort, passion? We are capable of both - but do we choose one distinctly over the other?