Beautiful posters of the solar system

Artist Ross Berens is selling beautiful 13 x 19 posters of the planets (and Pluto). I would love to have the whole set framed and on display in my apartment. 

(via Kottke)

Being productive

I had the whole weekend off and what do I have to show for it?

• A bunch of new Achievements in Mass Effect 2.

• Two empty cartons of chocolate soy milk.

• An empty case of beer.

• Moderate changes to my site's css.

• The realization that weekends are actually kind of boring.

RIP Brendan Burke – 1988-2010

Read Ben's post on Two Minutes For Hockey, he puts it into words far more eloquent than mine.

PADD

From Memory Alpha,

"PADD" is an acronym for Personal Access Display Device, a hand-held computer interface, used as early as the 22nd century and well into the 24th century. PADDs were used by such space-faring organizations as Earth Starfleet and the later Federation Starfleet, as well as by the Andorian Imperial Guard, Bajoran Militia, Cardassian Union, Klingon Empire, Romulan Star Empire, and Vulcan High Command. They were common to cultures even as distant as the Delta Quadrant.

Looks like they need to amend that to 21st century.

Graffiti artist pisses off right wing media

Another prime example why you shouldn't rely on television "news" as a reliable source of information.