Quoted without (overt) comment:The average global temperature in 2008 is likely to wind up slightly under 57.9 degrees Fahrenheit, about a tenth of a degree cooler than last year. When Clinton was inaugurated, 57.9 easily would have been the warmest year on record. Now, that temperature would qualify as the ninth warmest year.
Great webcomic you ought check out - FreakAngels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield.Begins here, with a four-page tease of character drawings, then continues here with the first six-page episode. So far there are 21 episodes (six pages each).(There's a graphic-novel printed version of the first story arc due in November)Here's the first panel of Episode 0001 (click the image for a larger view.....
So i'm listening to *Hawkwind*'s Quark Strangeness and Charm (on RealPlayer), and the "Album Info" thingie up in the corner is telling me all this stuff about Hawkwind - sort-of true stuff ror the most part, but just little bits from here and there in their history - the kind of thing that was true in, like 1973, but not in 1980.And then it ups and says:Lemmy was fired from Hawkwind because his...