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From ApartmentTherapy.com: James May’s Life Size LEGO House Underway

2 million bricks and 1200 volunteers.

I saw this shoe in the SkyMall shopping magazine.  It’s the Gravity Defyer Athletic Shoe with built in springs in the back.

I was curious and called the company’s 800 number to ask exactly what their logo was.  The woman I spoke to said that she’s asked that all the time and they call it a tear drop.  That’s the worst looking tear drop, I’ve ever seen.

From CNN.com: What’s a planet? Debate over Pluto rages on

It was three years ago Monday that the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet, a decision that made jaws drop around the world.
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Earlier this year, the Illinois Senate adopted a resolution declaring that Pluto was “unfairly downgraded” and restoring “full planetary status” to the celestial body as it “passes overhead through Illinois’ night skies.”

I always wondered what a state legislature does.

As to Pluto, I agree with the downgrading of Pluto.  There are seven moons that are larger than Pluto, plus quite a few trans-Neptunian objects that are similar sized.  Either all those are planets or Pluto’s not a planet.

However, that doesn’t make Pluto any less interesting.  Pluto’s moon Charon is so large in comparison, that Charon doesn’t rotate around Pluto, but a point inbetween. 

From ArrestedMotion.com: Shepard Fairey Vote Original Source Photo Revealed

From NYTimes.com: H.P. Tries to Keep the Ink Flowing

H.P.’s printing group has long been one of the company’s star performers. It accounts for nearly a quarter of overall revenue. Printer ink remains one of the most expensive liquids on the planet — more valuable than expensive perfumes — providing H.P. with far higher profit margins than PCs and other types of computing hardware provide.

You know printer cartridges are expensive, but this is an interesting way to think about how costly the ink is.

I think the aluminum bottle works well for Coke capturing the iconic Coke Bottle that you lose in can form.  I picked this up in California, but I haven’t seen one around here.

Here’s a link on Amazon to possibily a different style bottle, but it’s not available yet: Coca Cola 8.5oz Aluminum Bottle

My parents started composting by throwing all vegetable and fruit scraps in a pile in their gigantic vegetable garden.  Every once in a while a seed from fruit will sprout.  My dad’s got a his first little cantaloupe growing!

NYDailyNews: ‘Battlestar Galactica’ headed for big screen at warp speed under ‘X-Men’ director Bryan Singer

Bryan Singer is finally heading to space.
Almost a decade after he dropped out of a planned “Battlestar Galactica” TV project in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, The “X-Men” director is jumping on board a movie version of the sci-fi series, Variety reported.

It sounds like another reboot to me.  They just finished the series and now they’re rebooting it again?

You don’t bring in Bryan Singer in to tell the same story the Ronald D. Moore just did.  I think they’re going to go back to the original series and retell it with lots of evil robotic cylons and space battles with very little depth that you get in a movie versus four years of a television series. I have no doubt it could be entertaining, but I think a remake this soon pretty much craps on the series that just completed.

From Cincinnati.com: Arroyo says he flouts MLB’s drug policy

“I can see where guys like Hank Aaron and some of the old-timers have a beef with it,” Arroyo says. “But as far as looking at Manny Ramirez like he’s (serial killer) Ted Bundy, you’re out of your mind. At the end of the day, you think anybody really (cares) whether Manny Ramirez’s kidneys fail and he dies at 50?

“You were happy if the Red Sox won 95 games. You’d go home, have a cookout with your family. No big deal.”

A fascinating interview with Cincinnati Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo about supplement and drug usage in MLB.

As a side note, why didn’t the Cincinnati Enquirer get the interview for this story?  USA Today and Cincinnati Enquirer are both published by Gannett, but you would have thought that the Enquirer would have wanted this interview.

From NYTimes.com: While My Guitar Gently Beeps

Fascinating look into the development of video game The Beatles: Rock Band.