End of the Road for Mars Rover — After six years, Spirit has gone sessile. Not bad for a machine with a nominal 90-day design life.
Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report — In case you were wondering how it's done. (Via Making Light.)
Your Family Needs Protection Against Syphilis — A visually striking WPA era public health poster, but there's also something quirky about the subheadline on the poster itself.
HCR, one conservative and me [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — A blog post of my own from yesterday, which I link to here to point back to the very active comment thread on the LJ side, specfically the Constitutional discussion. (Some good stuff on the WordPress side, too.) Also, this whole story reinforces the simplistic notion I've long held that conservatism is fundamentally a failure of empathy.
Shocking discovery: Kids who fear sex are open to anti-sex messages — A look inside the rather creepy tactics of the forced pregnancy movement.
?otD: Is sleep for wimps? Show your work.
1/27/2009
Body movement: n/a (underslept)
Hours slept: 6.5
This morning's weigh-in: 227.2
Currently reading: Bangkok 8 by John Burdett