News Cut: August 8, 2012 Archive
Who should help Minnesotans after disasters? (5x8 - 8/8/12)
Posted at 7:35 AM on August 8, 2012
by Bob Collins
(16 Comments)
Filed under: Five by 8
Who'll help the Northland, why broadcasters can't refuse offensive ads, one small step for the 'Mohawk guy,' happiness and the geeky kid, and pin collecting at the Olympics.
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Olympic sports you'd dump
Posted at 11:50 AM on August 8, 2012
by Bob Collins
(5 Comments)
Filed under: Sports
Fun Olympic fact: MPR has never gotten a complaint for revealing the results of Olympic BMX races.
Internet gold for McKayla Is Not Impressed
Posted at 11:54 AM on August 8, 2012
by Bob Collins
Filed under: Sports
Gymnast McKayla Maroney's ill-timed, medal-stand pout has led to the latest Internet sensation -- McKayla Is Not Impressed.
Full-rez Curiosity images arrive
Posted at 1:09 PM on August 8, 2012
by Bob Collins
(1 Comments)
Filed under: Science
Now we're getting to the good stuff. Today, the Curiosity rover delivered the first full-resolution images of its new home on Mars.
The foreground shows two distinct zones of excavation likely carved out by blasts from the rover's descent stage thrusters, NASA writes.
By the way, if you like a little humor with your science, you want to be following SarcasticRover on Twitter.
I think I've got a dust allergy!! WORST PLANET IN THE UNIVERSE TO BE! EXCEPT FOR EARTH... POLLEN amirght?! I miss the flowers.
— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) August 8, 2012
(1 Comments)I just did my FIRST GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF MARS... MOST ROCKS ARE UNDECIDED, but still plan to vote. Go Democracy!
— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) August 8, 2012#curiosity2012
Art and LRT
Posted at 1:39 PM on August 8, 2012
by Bob Collins
(1 Comments)
Filed under: Arts
Looking out the window of the World Headquarters of NewsCut, it's hard to believe that this...
... will some day be the canvas for public art.
Art Along The Corridor from St. Paul Ofc. of Communications on Vimeo.
(1 Comments)Remembering Mitch Hedberg
Posted at 2:32 PM on August 8, 2012
by Bob Collins
Filed under: Arts
It's been seven years since Mitch Hedberg died. He may be the (intentionally) funniest person ever to come out of Saint Paul, Minnesota, until cocaine and heroin did him in. He was only 37.
Now, Scott Moran, a comic, has produced several new documentaries about comedians, the latest interviewing Lynn Shawcroft, Hedberg's wife of several years.
(h/t: Nate Minor)
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