Nooz . . .

The World Pyro Olympics are running through tomorrow in the Phillipines. From the pictures of last year's fireworks competition, I wish I was there.

The Space Show has started the Deep Space Communications Project, which gives one person every other month the chance to have a message beamed out into deep space. Sam Dinkins of Transterestrial Musings was the first winner with this entry:

We taste terrible.

Sam apparently has a great combination of a) having seen all the same movies I have; and b) having his resulting priorities in good order.