What the $%!#$@ is a Grawlix?

h/t Kottke.org.

Opportunity Rover RIP

The NASA Mars rover Opportunity was finally declared dead after an amazing 14+ year run on Mars. The NY Times has a nice interactive visual:

Me Cookie Monster

Cookie Monster was my favorite Sesame Street character growing up. Cookie Monster doing a Reddit AMA made me literally laugh out loud.

Reddit is a bit hard to embed, but some examples:

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Just read the whole  thing, it’s hilarious…

Gather Together the Full Gamut of Redundancy

I love this article by the vice president, executive managing editor and copy chief of Random House, listing commonly used phrases with redundant words that should be removed from your writing…

• hollow tube
  Bet you hadn’t thought of that one, had you.
• hourly (or daily or weekly or monthly or yearly) basis
• integrate with each other
• interdependent upon each other
• join together
• kneel down
• knots per hour 
  One knot = one nautical mile per hour.
• last of all
• lesbian woman
  Come on, folks. Think.

Made on Earth by Humans

One year ago today. This is a nice video by SpaceX. The double landing still gives me goosebumps…

Oversharing

… is the default. Via xkcd.