The Little Slinky That Could
This unstoppable little guy inspires me to persevere.
A little high in fat, though
Late Afternoon Shadows at Endeavour Crater on Mars
This week at marsrover.nasa.gov:
NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatically lit view eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars. More…
There’s something sobering and a little sad about the reality these photos show. A whole world, full of a million unique locations, which have never been looked at. We’ve peered across millions of miles at a dot in the sky, and now we’ve got photos from automated landers — but nobody has ever walked any of these valleys, no word has ever been spoken in this air, nobody’s felt this breeze… and quite probably never will.
Most depressing snow globe ever
No Globes
The artist writes:
A whole new fleet of dirty coal-fired power stations are on the verge of being built in the UK (the first for 30 years). The snow globe was designed for Ctrl.Alt.Shift in anticipation of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.
Out of compassion
âThe Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.â
â Evagrios the Solitary
(via simplyorthodox)
