NASA’s satellite photos of planet Earth.

Here's a composite photo of the Earth at night, published by NASA: The brightest lights correlate with the densest populations. No political boundary lines are visible, of course.   I once had a framed poster of this sort of image in my office.  One of my co-workers asked: "Did they take that…

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Who is better equipped to answer that phone at 3 am?

Larry David is convinced that it's not Hillary Clinton: Here's an idea for an Obama ad: a montage of Clinton's Sybillish personalities that have surfaced during the campaign with a solemn voiceover at the end saying, "Does anyone want this nut answering the phone?" How is it that she became…

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A list of popular fake comments by spammers

Those guys who send out spam by the bucket-load are really busy these days.    In the past month alone they have tried to sneak more than 9,000 of their fake comments onto this site.  These "comments" are attached to links to various sites selling drugs, loans, pornography and you name it. …

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