This blew me away:
Al Franken and Geography
Author: Sam Kornstein
Horseshoe Bend
Some shots at Horseshoe Bend in Page, AZ on the way down to Flagstaff from Bryce Canyon National Park: Thanks to Eric Bronner for the tip.
File Transfer
Via xkcd:
Bryce Canyon National Park
I’m back in Boston, but have been a bit tied up catching up on some things over the past few days. Blogging will likely continue to be slow over the coming week, but I’ll post some road trip photos as I go through them. After Zion National Park, we stopped by Bryce Canyon in Utah which had some mindblowing rock formations. Here are a few shots:
Zion National Park
Here are some photos I shot last week in Zion National Park:
The Whole Love
Wilco’s new album is streaming from their website for the next 24 hours. The official release isn’t until September 27th. I’m about to listen. Check it out here.
Good Reads
1. Chavez’s problem: How to get $12 billion of Gold to Venezuela 2. Jay-Z’s Hegemony in the Age of Kanye 3. ‘Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance’: A Wonderful Visualization 4. Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact
General Lee’s BBQ
The brisket sandwich at General Lee’s in Cookeville, TN was some of the best BBQ I’ve had. The shop has a counter in an Amish Grocery store at a gas station between Nashville and Knoxville. All the meats are cooked in a giant smoker in the parking lot.
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville’s got quite the music scene. There’s live country music in dozens of venues from noon-3:00am daily, with no covers. I got here Friday and probably saw twelve bands play over two days. Somehow I ended up with a pair of cowboy boots too. I like it here. Here’s a clip from Friday night. Wagon Wheel is a pretty popular cover around town:
Building Space Ships
That was quick. SpaceX, a private space ship company, will begin sending shipments to the international space station this fall: A little less than six months after the final space shuttle launch, a private space company will launch a rocket carrying a cargo capsule bound for the International Space Station. SpaceX said this week that it plans a Nov. 30 launch date for its first rendezvous with the ISS — an encounter that will mark a major milestone in private space exploration. We heard last month that NASA agreed to speed up SpaceX’s flight demo schedule, as SpaceX, eager to start making deliveries under its $1.6 billion NASA contract, asked NASA for permission to combine two planned missions into one. That mission is now