EIEIOU

Since I owe the state of California income taxes this year, do you suppose they'll accept an IOU?

Lots o' water on Mars

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has located a lot of almost pure water ice on Mars in the polar ice caps.

Visual

This is the best visual I've seen in a while. Sometimes the simplest things work the best. Click the link to check it out.

The Scariest Chart Ever (Seeking Alpha)

Am I allowed

to do a self-quote of the day?

"I would cheat on my taxes too if it meant that I got to run the IRS."

Well-Capitalized II

Karl Denninger is eloquent on the Bair quote earlier today.

Careful of the liquidation sale

This comes to us from Consumer Reports via DealBreaker. The "deals" at the Circuit City liquidation sales aren't necessarily really deals at all... buyer beware.

Circuit City: Higher Prices! Even In Liquidation!

Well-Capitalized

Nation's Banks Are Well-Capitalized: FDIC's Bair

Is she joking? I think that maybe she means that the names of the banks have lots of capital letters in them. That's true.

That explains it

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Da Vinci, Leonardo on Genius

Quote from Quotations Book

Videos show crash landing

You might have seen these already, but what the heck. Video of the New York plane crash captured by surveillance cameras.

Time keeps on stopping

So how little sense does this make? There is a round black analog clock in the kitchen. It is at the end of its life, so it stops about once a day at some time or other. But I keep going over and resetting the hands to the correct time. And then it will run for a few hours, and then stop and will not have the correct time anymore. And then I go back and reset it, knowing what the result will be.

And I keep doing it.

OK, at some point, I'm actually going to stop doing this, right? The clock almost never has the right time unless it's right after I set it.

Alone

"Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone." -- Paul Tillich

Repairs

I had to pull a failed machine out of the data center in San Jose a few days ago. Luckily the disk is intact so I didn't lose any data... right now it is in this machine temporarily while I pull the needed things off of it.

Saturn eclipsing the Sun

Never seen anything like this before.

The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other.

And this is cool:

Far in the distance, visible on the image left just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.

The full description is available at NASA's Astronomy Pic of the Day site.

More opinions

I always recommend Karl Denninger's Market Ticket site -- here are the results of his 2008 predictions and his 2009 predictions. Lots of reading but good stuff.