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The holiday schedule has knocked my sleeping patterns all out of whack. And going on call hasn't helped that much. So, I've been doing a lot of late night reading. Wikipedia, del.icio.us/popular and catching up on the best links of 2005. One jewl I discovered is McSweeney's lists. I liked this one best:

-Klingon Fairy Tales-

"Goldilocks Dies With Honor at the Hands of the Three Bears"

"Snow White and the Six Dwarves She Killed With Her Bare Hands and the Seventh Dwarf She Let Get Away as a Warning to Others"

"There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe With a Big Spike on It"

"The Three Little Pigs Build an Improvised Explosive Device and Deal With That Damned Wolf Once and for All"

"Jack and the Giant Settle Their Differences With Flaming Knives"

"Old Mother Hubbard, Lacking the Means to Support Herself With Honor, Sets Her Disruptor on Self-Destruct and Waits for the Inevitable"

"Mary Had a Little Lamb. It Was Delicious"

"Little Red Riding Hood Strays Into the Neutral Zone and Is Never Heard From Again, Although There Are Rumors ... Awful, Awful Rumors"

"Hansel and Gretel Offend Vlad the Impaler"

"The Hare Foolishly Lowers His Guard and Is Devastated by the Tortoise, Whose Prowess in Battle Attracts Many Desirable Mates"

Personal Made Public: Wikipedia vs. Britannica: "Only eight serious errors, such as misinterpretations of important concepts, were detected in the pairs of articles reviewed, four from each encyclopaedia. But reviewers also found many factual errors, omissions or misleading statements: 162 and 123 in Wikipedia and Britannica, respectively."

I can get lost in Wikipedia. For hours. But I always come out smarter. I love Wikipedia.

HST rocks. Check out this pic:


And this gallery:

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/

I can't believe they're going to decomission it, but I guess that the size and capability of ground based scopes has grown so much that I can understand it a bit.