I’ve always really enjoyed Google’s special holiday logos. Today’s was especially entertaining…
I’ve never been to the San Diego Comic-Con, although I have been to Chicago’s Wizard World. Chicago was interesting, but San Diego is considered the biggest and best by far.
San Diego may seem like an unlikely place to be Geek Central for any length of time, but I’ll definitely be paying attention to the geek news coming from there for the rest of the week.
The always terrific kottke.org has come up with a fitting tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission…
Inspired by the ApolloPlus40 Twitter account and We Choose the Moon, both of which are tracking the Apollo 11 mission as it happened 40 years ago, I’ve built a page where you can watch the CBS News coverage of Walter Cronkite reporting on the Moon landing and the first moon walk, 40 years to the second after it originally happened.
Here’s the one-time-only schedule (all times local/CDT)…
Of course, a celebration of anything this huge wouldn’t be complete without including the unique perspective of The Onion. (NSFW)
From the oh-so-appropriately named Cute Overload…
Behold the awesome sight of an Air Force F-22 Raptor in supersonic flight…
090622-N-7780S-014 GULF OF ALASKA (June 22, 2009) An Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is participating in Northern Edge 2009, a joint exercise focusing on detecting and tracking units at sea, in the air and on land. (U.S. Navy photo by Sonar Technician (Surface) 1st Class Ronald Dejarnett/Released)
via Gizmodo
