M81 in All Its Glory...

Via APOD, of course.

When I was a kid, the best image you could hope for of M81 was a black-and-white smear about the size of a penny.  Click to enlarge this beauty, and marvel at what modern technology allows us to see...

Quote of the Day...

From J.R. Dunn, at American Thinker:

Serves 'em right for using Windows.

I had no idea that Dunn is a geek.

This is right in the middle of an excellent article about the Stuxnet worm and the WikiLeaks cable dumps as examples of modern warfare.  Well worth reading the whole thing...