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Law & Order will rock after this!  I love Fred Thompson – he will be a badass lawyer.

Sen. Fred Thompson returns to acting [CNN]

I need the time off!

N.Y. Pol: No Cell Phones for You. If one legislator has his way, New York City will ban the use of cell phones in practically every public venue. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]

The Air Conditioning is back up and functioning.  Just a blown capacitor. Cooling off now…

The central air conditioning is out in my house.  It’s hot as hell.

Repairman at 830am.  I can’t wait.

One of my first major projects in ‘Middle School’ (AKA 6th Grade) was a Independent Study of NASA.  I took a look at Pioneer 10 actually, and learned alot about this probe.

It’s pretty wild to me that now as I approach the age of thirty, that these suckers are still talking to us out there!

It’s the stuff of a great old “Star Trek” episode: the Voyager planetary probes just keep on trucking, and as they near the outer edge of the Solar System, they’re becoming — unintendedly — the first human-made interstellar vehicles. The New York Times’ John Noble Wilford’s paean to the Voyagers is great reading. [Scott Rosenberg’s Links & Comment]

I hope that they suceeed…

Sex.com Takes Aim at Registrar. Lawyers for the website Sex.com argue that Network Solutions, now part of VeriSign, should be held liable for a snafu that put the site in the hands of a scam artist. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]