Spectre’s Sayings

Found a blog dedicated to beer, oktoberfest, and pretty girls. It’s Oktoberfestgirls. Check it out.

According to Yahoo News, the Mars Phoenix Lander may have discovered the presence of perchlorates in the Martian soil. Since perchlorates are highly reactive substances, this would be bad news for those who hoped to find microbial life living in the Martian soil.

Did Paul McCartney stop for petrol in my hometown yesterday, or was it just some fellow who bears a striking resemblance?

Here’s the photo:

From left are Jared Lowder, Josh Lowder, a certain Beatle, C.J. Lowder, Cory Neuhoff and Jeremy Judd.

The Worst Congress Ever voted to go on vacation instead of tackling the problem of high energy costs.

The Media Bloggers Association put out a report that claims bloggers win 92% of the lawsuits filed against them.

Kudos to Rev. Runnion-Bareford. Story here.

Catholic World News is reporting that the Vatican has approved new English translations of texts for the Mass. The project of correcting the translation of the entire Roman Missal is expected to last until 2010.

It appears to me that this project is simply trying to get the translation closer to what it says in the original Latin, thereby losing any inculturation. If being closer to the Latin is such a big deal, why not skip English altogether and use the Latin? Otherwise, I fail to see the point in this exercise.

Found this pro-life/pro-family commercial on Jennifer’s Favorite Links, and liked it. So, I’m reposting.

Virgin Galactic today unveiled WhiteKnightTwo. Christened “Eve,” this is the aircraft that will lift SpaceShipTwo aloft.

Here’s a video of how tourists will take suborbital trips aboard Virgin Galactic:

Update (11:30 pm): More here.

Here’s a few pictures I took on Saturday of my nearly-finished house.

Morton Grove is dropping its gun ban.