Electric Josh

Think
So it's now possible to get a "United We Stand" license plate from the State of Massachusetts. Really. The initials U.S. that dominate the left side of the plate are there perhaps for the benefit of those New Englanders who've forgotten that Massachusetts is one of the fifty states that, together, comprise the United States...?

I used to see this Think! flag all over the place; mostly on Dave Winer's site, although I'm pretty sure he had it sitting around in his sidebar much earlier than the link suggests. It'd sure make a great bumper sticker, nowadays. It's even pretty apolitical.
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Why does the sun shine?
According to Tom Glazer, author of On Top of Spaghetti and many, many science songs (available here; you want the versions at a 168 bitrate, not 32):

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where Hydrogen is built into Helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

I wish I could write and sing stuff like that. Lessee, I've got this degree in science sitting around here, somewhere. Anyway, Boing Boing reports that Mr. Glazer just died. Bummer.
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Moment of Zen
The television currently contains a show called Married in America. It's a show wherein five people are introduced by a guy evidently pulled moments earlier from what must have been a really fun frat party, and whored off on national television to those viewers willing to drop $1.50 (or whatever) on a phone call to vote for their favorite trick. Or something. The fact that this absurd show is even on national television is probably the most disturbing part. It's like bad performance art, only less entertaining and with none of the irony.

Now is the time to go do the Zen Television Experiment. It's well worthwhile, especially after accidentally watching anything on Fox.
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Mr. Rogers
Get Your War On acknowledges the death of Fred Rogers. (I had totally forgotten about that song...) Surreal.
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