"During the Apollo program to send humans to the Moon in the 1960s, a documentary was made immediately after the completion of each crewed mission. Well, we found them in the archives, and they're now being re-released, one every two weeks, as a video podcast." Thx to jimkeller for the turn-on: clickie for Links HERE.

Herschel and Planck on Way to Study Our Cosmic Roots , info 'n' link courtesy of jimkeller .

jimkeller wrote a great post that shows the anti-marriage equality groups, that keep claiming its not really about hurting gays, its about protecting the word marriage. His work can be found here In this article we see that Washington state's recent "everything but the word marriage" civil union law (in other words, Gays and Lesbians don't get the word marriage but they get all the rights...

Link to links to Around the World in 80 Telescopes and 100 Hours of Astronomy.

Gakked essentially word-for-word from jimkeller 's post from a posting on the L.A. Times' L.A. Now blog , who in turn snagged it from Southern Voice: From the pulpit of Tabernacle Baptist Church on Sunday, Rev. Al Sharpton called out the Mormon Church and other conservative faiths for mobilizing to support Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage in California while refusing to be as involved...

Pointing at friends who do good stuff: IRrelevant astronomy . This is neato stuff, so check it out if you like and vote if you can.

So I spent all night baking cookies. There are three of the recipes I made, and want to share with everyone. Marble Cookies 1 Yellow Cake Mix 1 chocolate Cate Mix 1 c. cooking oil (Seperated) about 6 tablespoons of Water 2 egg (1 c. chocolate chips optional) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grab 2 mixing bowls In Each bowl: Mix one cake mix, 1 egg, 1/2 c. cooking oil, and enough water to make...

So, the football teach at the school where I teach and coach (Tartan Hall for those of you in the know) had our first playoff game in three years on Friday.  Because we snuck in with an at-large berth, we were matched up against the number one team in the division, the defending champs who hadn't lost a game in three years.  As jimkeller   so aptly put it when he read my post after the seedings...

Good update on whassup w/CA's Prop 8.

Via jimkeller , a list of the filings submitted to the California Supreme Court concerning Prop 8. One stop shopping for those keeping an eye on it. Of amusement, the amicus letter filed by the Kingdom of Heaven. Which makes me wonder something.... To my faithful friends: have you ever felt comfortable saying, "I speak for God and X is what God thinks"? This is in contrast (in my mind...