Electric Josh

As we work on cranking out a new release of the software at work I've found ample opportunity to trot out the poetry of D. H. Rumsfeld. An edifying sample:

The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

Seem literate while enjoying your friends' and colleagues' reactions to Rumsfeld's name!
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NASA: The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn site is really a nice site, with the latest cool pictures from Galileo's planet with handles, and descriptions of the images that aren't dumbed down too badly. Note in particular this excellent description of where the probe itself is. This is what happens when you let scientists do their own science reporting to a lay audience. And when you have scientists fidgeting nervously for five years while the spacecraft makes its way to Saturn to begin with. How better to pass the time than to exhaustively prepare for what you hope will be a successful insertion into orbit? Years of fun.
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