- The Houston Chronicle's Special Report: Columbia's Last Mission seems to be the best coverage out there if you want to read about yesterday's
bad day
. Between having the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and having been under Columbia as it came apart, almost all the news came out of Texas. - Technology keeps Brevard's economy humming talks about the impact of Columbia's explosion on Florida's Space Coast (which has area code 321).
- Bookends in time is a personal look at the shuttle Columbia, and a good story.
- In lighter news, Chris Riemenschneider has issued a correction [scroll almost to the end of the article] saying the Auto Body Experience isn't actually defunct. Good deal. [some guy]
- City Page's Calendar includes "A Midwinter's Night Scream" this week. It's a benefit for TC Punk's MoldyRamone (Steve Modenhauer) - a friend of Jim's who's battling cancer. Moldy was also last year's champion of Tubby's punk karaoke.
You can also hear Steve sing lead on Plate-O-Shrimp's cover of Alice Cooper's Sonic Reducer [Jim] - Rum deal as US bans 'Cuban' Glenfiddich. See, Glenfiddich Havana Reserve is aged in rum barrels from Cuba, so it's illegal to buy it here in the good old U. S. of A. [boing boing]
- The Top Ten Digital Photography Tips didn't really contain anything I hadn't heard before, but it's good to be reminded sometimes. [holy schmoly]