Early tomorrow morning, NASA will be bombing the moon to generate a dust cloud for water analysis. I’m not sure who thought this was a great idea but regardless of how it began, for the first time in history we are about to unleash man-made destructive force on a body that is not our own.  Admittedly progress begins with steps like these, however painful they may be.  I want to get up early and witness it – yet part of me can’t bear to watch.
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Today’s WWDC delivered. We had heroes and villains. We had guys with funny accents, failed demonstrations and amazing technology applications. We stared on, slack-jawed, faithfully drinking whatever the Apple Kool-Aid company deliverith. Deficiencies were sold as new features, and we loved it. Nobody knows what good a compass is in a phone, but what the heck, why not. Yaaay! Cut-Copy-Paste, just like a real phone! A better camera, with video! It’s all faster, it’s all euphoric. TAKE ME NOW!! Best day of my LIFE!! It was definitely worth hunching for 2.5 hours over my Macbook watching Gizmodo‘s coverage trickle in every few seconds… I felt like a child furiously sucking every last drop of Nyquil-infused Purplesaurus Rex out of an empty sippy cup. [..]