I've Found my Billionaire

So I was going through Forbes' list of eligible billionaire bachelors and I've identified my favorite: PayPal co-founder and Facebook-early-believer Peter Thiel.  Sure, he's only worth $1.2 billion, but it's a self-made wealth, so you know he's down-to-earth, and he lives in San Francisco, so I wouldn't have to move far to become his live-in mistress.  Plus, he's hot.

Check out his profile here and tell me if you agree... but I'm pretty sure I'd respond positively if he flirted with me, even if I didn't know he was the world's 962nd richest person.

Some ACTUAL exogeology for you!

From the Discovery Channel's website, here's some news on Martian plate tectonics. Apparently Mars had only a single plate, making it more of a shell, which rotated around a liquid interior. Interesting, and it explains why the southern hemisphere is so much higher than the north, as well as why Mars' 3 largest volcanoes (and they're BIG... much much larger than anything on Earth) are all in a straight line. They were formed like Hawaii... a single magma plume beneath the crust that punched holes in the crust and formed mountains as the crust drifted past overhead.... awesome stuff!

Barney Frank is Awesome

Barney Frank is so hilariously real... I love him. Check out his quote today, as referenced at salon.com's War Room:

"At a time of great crisis with mortgage foreclosures and autos, [Obama] says we only have one president at a time. I'm afraid that overstates the number of presidents we have. He's got to remedy that situation."

hahahah.... le sigh. So true.

Prop 8 - The Musical

This has to be the best short film ever made in the history of mankind. And yes, I'm counting "Dick in a Box" and "Lazy Sunday".

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

US Entered Recession in Dec 2007

Wow. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the US has been in a recession for a year now, starting in December of 2007. I was not expecting it to have started so early. I wonder why they waited so long to declare it? I thought you only needed a couple of quarters of consecutive contraction, but apparently it's not that simple.

"The current recession, which many economists expect to persist through the middle of next year, is already the third-longest since the Great Depression, behind only the 16-month slumps of the mid-1970s and early 1980s."

Wow. Anyways, Reuters writes about it here.

Yummie

LOL.