[youtube &hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&w=640&h=505] I really, really want this to be a full-length movie. Video courtesy of Chris Dane Owens. Link courtesy of Every Day Should Be Saturday.

Theodore Roosevelt’s speech in 1912, just after he had been wounded by a would-be assassin: Now, I would not speak to you insincerely within five minutes of being shot. I am telling you the literal truth when I say my concern is for many other things. It is not in the least for my own life…. I don’t know who the man was who shot me to-night…. He shot to kill me. He shot the bullet. I am just going to show you (Col. Roosevelt then unbottoned coat and vest and showed his white shirt badly stained with blood)…. ...

Slowly, possibly through some sort of neural net: “My name Shakira i girl ,im search friend, send me messages [email redacted] i send me foto:)”

I love the idea by Rudolf Martin in 1908 that Germany could successfully invade Britain by Zeppelin, carrying 350,000 troops in each wave, not the least because of the need to build ~7,000 of them. I’m trying to imagine how you would hide that preparation. A million acres of camouflage netting? Paint them bright colors and put on a really long air show? Don’t bother to hide it, but try to convince the British you’re actually planning to land in Scotland? ...

The Earth and Moon, as seen from Mars orbit. Link courtesy of Boing Boing.

I can’t remember where I ran across this the other day, but a blog post described the new version of some electronic product as “50% smaller and 100% lighter.” 50% smaller is good. 100% lighter is great! Up until you accidentally throw it into space. :)

The first few lines from Barack Obama’s Philadelphia speech: “‘We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.’ “Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. ...

You know, now I’m feeling better about the fact that I didn’t get that job with them. I suspect Motricity is going to be laying off some good people in Durham to do “what’s best for the investors.” Anyway, it opens up a great office space for some other company in the American Tobacco campus. The interior of that building is nice and new.

It’s Burgundy and Gold…never mind. Somebody wake me up when preseason starts. Link courtesy of Mr. Irrelevant.

Damn it.