Archive for 7th February 2008

Today I went to the ultramarket. While I was at the ultramarket, I saw the most appalling thing. I took a picture:

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They’re from a local company with Polish owners.

For those who do not know, Sophie’s Choice is a novel turned film starring Meryl Streep about a Polish woman forced by a Nazi officer to choose one of her two children for death.

I’m sure the product is quite tasty. I’m not sure the best of judgment was used in selecting a company name.

STS-122 (finally!) scheduled for launch at 2:45:30, smack in the middle of today’s 10 minute launch window.

Official clock:

Here is NASA TV, live, with approx. 60 sec. delay.

Congratulations, Atlantis, on a splendid liftoff!

CNN.com announces that Mitt Romney will be suspending his campaign following a disappointing showing on Super Tuesday. To announce this news, CNN.com places a banner at the top of their page. Click here to see the banner as it appeared at 12:45pm EST.

Mercifully, it was only up for about 7 minutes, and has now been replaced with a headline that contains neither apostrophes nor plurals.