‘Planet Bonanza’ Indeed: NASA Unveils 715 New Worlds

The job of NASA’s Kepler mission is to peek at the far reaches of space in the hopes of finding potentially habitable planets. The space agency announced a stunning success, saying that Kepler had identified 715 new planets that orbit 305 stars. The discovery boosts the number of verified planets by around 70 percent.

“Four of the planets are about twice the size of Earth and orbit in their star’s so-called habitable zone,” NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce reports for our Newscast unit, “where temperatures might be suitable for liquid water.”

#NASA needs more funding.

#cosmos

We have three cats, don’t ask me why. IT WASN’T MY IDEA. But these two are cute as hell.

I often treat them as if they were almost human since I generally agree with Animal Rights, blah, blah, blah.

They can come and go as they please, they’re their own person. They’re loving and playful. Mirah, the one on the right, plays fetch with a rubber snake. She’s the best.

They’re part of the family.

That is until .. THEY EAT THEIR OWN PUKE.

#photos #cats

Is the @GSElevator Mystery Really Solved?

Last night, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times made waves by exposing the identity of @GSElevator, the anonymous Twitter scribe (and now, book author in the making) who purported to relay conversations from inside the elevators at Goldman Sachs. According to Sorkin, @GSElevator is really John Lefevre, a 34-year-old ex-bond trader who lives in Texas, and who has never worked at Goldman Sachs.

GS Elevator Gossip (GSElevator) on Twitter

The latest from GS Elevator Gossip (@GSElevator). Things heard in the Goldman Sachs elevators do not stay in the Goldman Sachs elevators. Email what you hear to elevatorgoldman@gmail.com. New York / London / Hong Kong

The tweets are PRICELESS.

98% of people making comments about Nelson Mandela on social media would fail a history quiz on Nelson Mandela.

I don’t like talking in crowds.

BUT I DO LIKE TYPING IN ALL CAPS.

UPDATE with mathematical clarification:
Me + Another + ANYONE ELSE = CROWD

#random

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#fashion

Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ

Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.

GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not.

In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.

What’s happens in Yahoo, stays in Yahoo. :-)

I’m kidding of course.. This wasn’t Yahoo’s fault but we’ll all be better off as soon as accept the fact that whatever we do online, substantial or not, is up for grabs.

#privacynews #yahoo

Don’t know what’s up with Sunday. :-D

#tcr

If you’re not a genius, don’t pretend to be. It makes you looker dumber than you really are.

#protip

So the kitchen got two coats of pink a couple weeks ago. Here’s my fav picture from the set I took.

This one’s not bad but the tiles aren’t finished.

It changes the whole vibe though.. I’m totally digging it. 8)

#photos #homeimprovement

Are you guys getting the site emails with the “New comment” subject line?

I ask because the site is telling me that it can’t send them. :-O

UPDATE: Never mind.. I just saw this from the my host.

So at least I know it’s not the site itself. :)

#devhell #tcr