We kick things off with our traditional bog-standard Bad Baby Names: Kolten, Dicen (Dicen? Seriously?), Jaisyn, and Eliezer.
Moving swiftly on, we find little Chevelyn. I think this little girl has a mom who liked the name Evelyn (which is a nice name) and a dad who liked Chevy . I also think this little girl has a set of parents who are idiots.
As a prospective father, one bit of advice I’ve received regarding trying to come up with a name for our kid is “think like a seven-year old and come up with nicknames.” Airey’s parents didn’t use this rule. Come on, Airey Fairy? That’s an obvious one. I’m sure my readers can come up with more. And besides, Airey is a stupid hippie name anyhow.
Little Azalea Rose’s parents must really like flowers.
I can’t understand why you would want to name your child Dynasty.
I can’t understand why you would want to name your child Princess. It’s cute when she̵...
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WSV: What is GLAST?From: canspice.org
Post Date: 2008-05-30 13:30:41
This week’s Weekly Science Video comes courtesy NASA. This is the second in a series produced to educate people about GLAST , the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, which is due to launch on June 5.
This video discusses gamma-rays, which I’ve discussed before in the gamma-ray burst context.
This video was brought to my attention by Phil Plait , who’s the first talking head in the video.
Tags: astronomy , gamma-ray , gamma-ray burst , phil plait , G...
more Phoenix, from HiRISE — Now Much Cooler!From: canspice.org
Post Date: 2008-05-27 22:45:22
Just when you thought that HiRISE taking pictures of Phoenix wasn’t cool enough… Emily at the Planetary Society Weblog has an even cooler picture :
Sweet!
Emily has more HiRISE photos, specifically these ones of the landing site . Go check them out!
Tags: mars , phoenix , hirise , mars reconnaisance orbiter , astronomy , planetary society
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