Meme!

Which of Robert Silverberg's books have you read?

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Single-term-Mayor-to-be Rob Ford suffers set-back

City councillors have taken the wheel from Toronto’s mayor on the crucial transit file, removing five of his allies from the TTC board and returning Karen Stintz as its chair.

The defeat, which played out over a dramatic day-long council debate, sends a clear signal of what to expect later this month when council considers the fate of Mayor Rob Ford’s long-promised Sheppard subway. It also calls into question Mr. Ford’s ability to win future votes on key issues, with so many councillors now willing to line up against him.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson embraces the magic sparkle tree-pony of space exploration as national salvation

Is there a bingo card for space advocacy?

Give NASA the money it needs, he argues, and the agency will stimulate the economy and inspire students to pursue innovative, ambitious projects. (Say, for example, a way to thwart a wayward asteroid that could threaten to wipe out humanity.) Continue to fund NASA at its current rate -- a shade more than $18.7 billion in 2011, or as Tyson often reminds, six-tenths of a percent of the federal budget -- and the country will lose an ongoing space race to the Chinese and European space agencies of the world.

To the guy who decided the best way to get the bus to stop was to step out in front of it

Aren't you lucky Grand River Transit apparently coughed up for good brakes?

Courtesy of doc_lemming

Having a problem with xposting between LJ and DW again...

Space Bingo

Courtesy of doc_lemming

Having a problem with xposting between LJ and DW again...

Space Bingo

Question for smart phone users

What's the best way to get someone walking down the street reading their phone to look up? "Hey!" and "Look forward!" don't seem to work.