Clipmarks | travislaborde's clips

Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Colors of IC 1795

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:02:06 GMT

Astronomy Picture of the Day

The Colors of IC 1795

Explanation: This colorful cosmic portrait features glowing gas and dark dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. The nebula's colors were created by adopting the Hubble false-color palette for mapping narrow emission from oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur atoms to blue, green and red colors, and further blending the data with images of the region recorded through broadband filters.

Not far on the sky from the famous Double Star Cluster in Perseus, IC 1795 is itself located next to IC 1805, the Heart Nebula, as part of a complex of star forming regions that lie at the edge of a large molecular cloud. Located just over 6,000 light-years away, the larger star forming complex sprawls along the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. At that distance, this picture would span about 70 light-years across IC 1795.

Tags: images

DO SMOKING GUNS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING, TOO?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:41:33 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: www.anncoulter.com

As we now know (and by "we" I mean "everyone with access to the Internet"), the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has just been caught ferociously manipulating the data about the Earth's temperature.

Recently leaked e-mails from the "scientists" at CRU show that, when talking among themselves, they forthrightly admit to using a "trick" to "hide the decline" in the Earth's temperature since 1960 -- as one e-mail says. Still another describes their manipulation of the data thus: "[W]e can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!"

But then last weekend -- in the middle of the "Let's Cook the Books!" e-mail scandal -- the CRU said that all its data on the Earth's temperature since 1960 had been irretrievably "lost." (Although I suspect "overcooked" might be a more apt term.)

Tags: ann coulter

Astronomy Picture of the Day: NGC 6992: Filaments of the Veil Nebula

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:16:17 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Astronomy Picture of the Day

NGC 6992: Filaments of the Veil Nebula

Explanation: Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 7,500 years ago that star exploded in a supernova leaving the Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus Loop. At the time, the expanding cloud was likely as bright as a crescent Moon, remaining visible for weeks to people living at the dawn of recorded history.

Tags: images

Astronomy Picture of the Day: JKCS041: The Farthest Galaxy Cluster Yet Measured

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:44:28 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Astronomy Picture of the Day

JKCS041: The Farthest Galaxy Cluster Yet Measured

Tags: images

If Driving Time Estimates were like Windows Copy Estimates...

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:17:27 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde
clipper's remarks: LOL!

Clip Source: coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com

Tags: humor

Unfortunate Product Names

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:17:34 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: www.masalatime.com

Tags: humor

Ann on Torture

Thu, 07 May 2009 13:55:27 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: www.anncoulter.com

The media wail about "torture," but are noticeably short on facts.

Start with the fact that the average Gitmo detainee has gained 20 pounds in captivity. There's even a medical term for it now: "the Gitmo gut." Some prisoners have been heard whispering, "If you think Allah is great, you should try these dinner rolls."

In terms of "torture," there was "the attention grasp," which you have seen in every department store you have ever been where a mother was trying to get her misbehaving child's attention.

Farther up the parade of horribles was "walling," which I will not describe except to say Elliot Spitzer paid extra for it.

To claim that the Japanese -- architects of the Bataan Death March -- were prosecuted for "waterboarding" would be like saying Ted Bundy was executed for engaging in sexual harassment.

The Japanese "water cure" was to "waterboarding" as practiced at Guantanamo what rape at knifepoint is to calling your secretary "honey."

Tags: ann coulter

better in somalia?

Thu, 07 May 2009 01:49:33 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: izismile.com

Tags: humor

Ann Coulter - Muslim Response to Torture Memos - We Do That on First Dates

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:52:03 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: www.anncoulter.com

The president's release of the Department of Justice interrogation memos undoubtedly hurt America's image abroad, as we are snickered at in capitals around the world, where they know what real torture is.

People pay to have a lot rougher stuff done to them at Six Flags Great Adventure. Indeed, with plastic walls and soft neck collars, "walling" may be the world's first method of "torture" in which all the implements were made by Fisher-Price.

As non-uniformed combatants, all of the detainees at Guantanamo could have been summarily shot on the battlefield under the Laws of War.

Instead, we gave them comfy chairs, free lawyers, better food than is served in Afghani caves, prayer rugs, recreational activities and top-flight medical care

Only three terrorists -- who could have been shot -- were waterboarded.

Muslims look at them and say: THIS IS ALL THEY'RE DOING? We do that for practice. We do that to our friends.

Tags: ann coulter

He's Killed us All.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:29:27 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: izismile.com

Tags: humor

Squirrel and Dragon

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:54:27 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: izismile.com

Tags: images

Bord and Stumbling again :)

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:29:02 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: lol.com.pk

Tags: humor

Baby of Doom Hates Sandcastles

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:54:07 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde
clipper's remarks: LOL I just had to clip this

Clip Source: www.canucklehead.ca

I Hate Sandcastles

Tags: humor

Man Outsmarts Carjackers With Text Message

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:17:46 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde
clipper's remarks: I wonder if it was the "hot girl" or the drugs that made them bite?

Clip Source: www.wbns.com

Man Outsmarts Carjackers With Text Message

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man who was carjacked outside a south side restaurant said his friends helped him come up with a plan to outsmart the thieves, 10TV News reported Thursday.

"Some young man came up and opened the passenger door and stuck a gun in my face and told me to get out," Heuss said.

The thieves got away with Heuss' car, cell phone and some cash.

Heuss filed a police report and then met his friends to drown his sorrows, Ludlow reported. One of his friends came up with an idea to contact the thieves.

"He said 'I'm going to text these guys, I'm going to blow some smoke their way,'" Heuss said. "He said. 'I'm going to tell them I've got a bunch of hot chicks, as if I'm texting you, and that we've got some drugs, too.'"

The carjackers took the bait, Ludlow reported.

"They were expecting this hot chick to arrive with drugs, and Columbus police officers arrived instead."

Tags: crime, humor

USA = One Big Ponzi Scheme?

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:18:10 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: images.salon.com

Tags: humor