Walking on the Moon

Warren Ellis on John Kerry’s departure.

Rod and I have been arguing about how bad climate change might be for humanity in the near term. Thankfully Warren Ellis has linked to Jamais Cascio’s perspective on the “how bad could it be” issue.  (Though I think he means “climate change” when he writes “global warming.”)
Rod, take note. :-)

In addition to his SL reportage and comics work, Warren Ellis is all the political commentator you’ll ever need:

• Hillary
  
• McCain
  
• Vilsack
• Giuliani

Nothing about Obama, yet, though….

Warren Ellis is now writing a regular column for Reuters about Second Life. Well worth your time if you care about SL at all. He announced it a while ago and his first column came out today.

I was perturbed eariler by Congress voting to close the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction eariler this year, but CNN tells me that folks have reconsidered.  Good.

Keith Phipps understands ABC, too.

Here’s a video from a Citation overrun accident at Bader Field in Atlantic City. This bozo’s not doing aviation any favors. Fortunately, it looks like no one was injured. You’ll have to watch until about 5:00 in to see how bad this driver’s ideas get.

Alert plane spotters from ISI forwarded this to me from another aviation list.

I just love it when things get as easy as one and zero. From CNN: Electronic voting machine fails to count any votes for a candidate who voted for himself. Of course CNN considers this “offbeat news.” Nimrods.

You can expect to see fewer reports on corruption in rebuilding Iraq. The BBC tells me that the US is discontinuing auditing of rebuilding efforts.

Our pals at the BBC (via Warren Ellis) tell me that:

With a rise in the popularity of Christian-style weddings in Japan, some Westerners are finding they can make a lucrative living by acting as priests.

Rod, Sam, you listening?