An interesting way to stop junkmail

Here's an excellent program I recently heard about. Greendimes.com will work to get your name off mailing lists AND plant a tree every month, all for just $36 a year. Seems more than worth it to me.

Moon-base nonsense

I'm going to try to start posting here again, starting with a link to an excellent slate.com article about NASA's plan to build a moon-base. In particular:

"Although, of course, the base could yield a great discovery, its scientific value is likely to be small while its price is extremely high. Worse, moon-base nonsense may for decades divert NASA resources from the agency's legitimate missions, draining funding from real needs in order to construct human history's silliest white elephant."