23 'Av 5766 * 17 August 2006: Sandcastle Day/National Thriftshop Day

Greetings.

Today’s news and commentary (besides all that stuff under “Recommended Reading”:

• “And Then There Were Twelve” (It’s near-official now. Though I find it bizarre that Charon gets to be a planet while Luna/the Moon doesn’t. Luna can beat up Charon easily!)
  
• “Voyager 1: 'The Spacecraft That Could' Hits New Milestone”
  
• “Targeted Bombardment”
  
• “Planet Mnemonic Contest”
  
• “S.Africa's garlic, lemon AIDS advice draws new fire” (Submitted by Barry.)
  
• “Lebanon: Syria is Watching (1983)”
  
• “ZabaSearch”

Today’s weird thing (and worthless cause of the day) is CAPSoff, a campaign to remove the caps lock from standard keyboards, or at least relocate it. Since I use my caps lock to switch between Latin (Dvorak) and Hebrew (Adelman) layouts, my comment on this included the immortal words “YOU CAN HAVE MY CAPS LOCK WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD KEYBOARD!” Enjoy.

Aaron