Title: Longest Line
Location: Ginza Apple Store (Tokyo)
Director: Masanori Fukumoto
Date: Sunday, November 30, 2003
Description: Be sure to watch the whole thing, it's truly UNBELIEVABLE

And it truly is. Watch it all the way to the end.

Tokyo LOVES Apple. Yes they do.

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SpaceShipOne performs seventh glide flight. SpaceShipOne (SS1), the suborbital RLV under developed by Scaled Composites, performed its seventh glide test... [spacetoday.net]

Hey, things are going along swimmingly for the gang at Scaled Composites! Who knows, maybe I'll get that ride into space after all.

SS1 performed a set of maneuvers during the flight, including a 4-g pull-up and stability tests. The vehicle also performed a "full functional check" of its propulsion system by cold flowing nitrous oxide oxidizer during the flight. "All propulsion components, displays and functionality performed as designed," the company noted in a description of the flight on its web site.

Note to my buddy Jason- they're using nitrous as fuel, though it's some sort of secret solid type.

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More Than a 'Scream': A Blast Felt Round the World. Did the volanic explosion at Krakatoa inspire Edvard Munch's most famous work? By Leon Jaroff. [New York Times: Science]

...WHEN I NOTICED THAT I WAS VERY INSPIRATIONAL TO DEPRESSED NORWEGIAN PAINTERS WHO MUCH LIKE ME ARE TORMENTED BY CHILDISH ROOMMATES AND WHO LONG TO HAVE A PUPPY.

This familiar painting, "The Scream," is Edvard Munch's most famous work. Yet for more than a century, the event that inspired it has eluded identification.

Munch makes clear in a journal entry that "The Scream" grew from an experience he had while walking near Christiania (now Oslo) at sunset.

"All at once the sky became blood-red . . . clouds like blood and tongues of fire hung above the blue-black fjord and the city . . . and I stood alone, trembling with anxiety . . . I felt a great unending scream piercing through nature," it says.

THAT IS ALL.

Yes, it's an in-joke.

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We gots snow!

As always, click on the photo to make it BiG.

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