The Digital Breakup

It is amazing in this digital, socially-networked world just how much people are intertwined. And the process of disentanglement is no longer just ripping up a photo or throwing away some shirts. It’s so complicated that I may have to create a list.

Sally Ride

It wasn’t enough for Sally Ride to be the first American woman in space. She had to do it twice.
She died today at age 61 — tragically young — leaving behind a legacy that engages children in science and assures young girls everywhere, straight and gay, that the sky is not the limit.

Unfortunate hedgehog stuck in a tin of carrots

www.rspca.org.uk/media/news/story/-/article/Hedgehog_litter_May12

“Incidents like this can easily be prevented if people just picked up their rubbish rather than throwing it away and remember to squeeze cans together before throwing them away.

Had this hedgehog not been found he would have died a slow and painful death.”

Just a drop

This is what it would look like if all the water on this planet was gathered up into one drop. And there isn’t any more being made, folks.

New Bomb is an “Upgrade” Over the Previous Underwear Weapon

The CIA, with help from a well-placed informant and foreign intelligence services, conducted a covert operation in Yemen in recent weeks that disrupted a nascent suicide plot and recovered a new bomb, U.S. officials said.

Aunt Flossie

My aunt Flossie was the center of our family. The one who made meatballs, over decorated for Christmas, was strict and permissive at the same time, took care of every kid that came within range, made orange soda slushies while we watched Dukes of Hazzard, was the original home crafter before it became an industry, raised her family almost single-handedly, opened her home to us, and was constant and ubiquitous in our lives. Until today.