This makes me want to cry...

This makes me want to cry...  You really need to watch the whole thing.  Then think about the state of education in this country...

A disaster on so many levels...

A disaster on so many levels...  James Taranto has renamed ObamaCare: it's now “Vaporcare”.  As Mr. Taranto puts it:

...ObamaCare isn't just a technical failure. And it isn't just an economically unsustainable scheme. Now it's a rhetorical disaster too. Even by the standards of Obama speeches it was terrible. It was so bad, it was the ObamaCare website of political oratory.

Read the whole thing...

Raise the minimum wage...

Raise the minimum wage, reduce the number of jobs.  CoyoteBlog has an easy-to-understand description of why this is so...

Just 35 diskettes!

Just 35 diskettes!  Though the box says 48 disks, so I'm not sure what's up with that.  But – a full 16 colors, too!  And it even works with your mouse!  It sounds like the installation is about as easy as it gets:

Just fire up MS-DOS, enter ‘A:\>dir *.exe’ into the command line, and then follow the instructions to install the Obamacare batch files—it should only take four or five hours at the most. You can press F1 for help if you run into any problems. And be sure your monitor’s screen resolution is at 320 x 200 or it might not display properly.

President Obama promises a 6 CD-ROM version by 2016, too.

With this kind of cutting-edge technology, how could an aging geek like me not love it?

Via friend and reader Simon M...

Pie Jesu...

Pie Jesu - Fauré's famous aria from the Requiem in D minor.  This is a beautiful performance of it, but what makes it especially notable is that the three guys singing the parts first met just a few days before this performance.  They got connected on the Internet, through one of the many web services springing up to connect musical performers around the world.

Via my lovely bride...

NGC 6357...

NGC 6357...  From APOD, of course.  Glorious full resolution photo here.