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Photos and film…
Kindle Ad…
This is a very, very good ad. Amazon just gets better and better.
Mashup Apocalypse Now…
Francis Ford Coppola Mashup from Apocalypse Now in Honor of the 33rd Anniversary on Chase Jarvis Blog | Chase Jarvis Blog.
New health secretary…
“To be clear, a Health Minister who believes in magic sugar pills is like a Chancellor who believes – literally – in money trees. Or a Transport Minister who believes in perpetual motion.”
Sounds great!
Film story???
Why is this not a film? This man was for real!
“La Rouchefoucauld met Hitler, joined the Resistance, and, with the permission of de Gaulle, who told him, “Even allied to the Devil, it’s for La France,” joined the British reconnaissance agency Special Operations Executive (“Churchill’s secret army”). With the S.O.E., he learned how to crack safes and how to “kill a man with the flat of his hand.”
Got to go…
Go Edwina…
There is only one…
Last night it was Edwina Currie who tweeted that “Italians are gorgeous even in wheelchairs”.
Paralympic Opening Ceremony: The word on the Tweet – The Media Blog.
The First Moon Walk…
It is hard to believe that we’d ever take a gamble like this again. Maybe a generation that had been through World War II and a Korean war was more willing to take chances.
“It is true that we were cautious in our planning. There were many uncertainties about how well our Lunar module systems and our Pressure suit and backpack would match the engineering predictions in the hostile lunar environment. We were operating in a near perfect vacuum with the temperature well above 200 degrees Fahrenheit with the local gravity only one sixth that of Earth. That combination cannot be duplicated here on Earth, but we tried as best we could to test our equipment for those conditions.”
Neil Armstrong Talks About The First Moon Walk : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR.