EXTRA VIOLENT DOUBLE MOVIE DAY

Anne and I are going to see The Bourne Legacy this weekend. My job is to keep her from hyperventilating; hers is to pound on my arms until they vaguely resemble Jeremy Renner's.

And, for a bit o' the old ultra-violence, there's a new trailer for the remake of Red Dawn:

And what are you planning to blow up -- er, do this weekend?

Ladies And Gents, Your New Geek Icon... Bobak Ferdowsi

Otherwise known as "NASA's Mohawk guy".

So, what do you want next from the space program? I think it's time to seriously start looking at a permanent moonbase with a civilian population, within fifteen years. (Newt Gingrich did it as an applause line, and to fool people into thinking he's a futurist. I'm doing it because we need to start expanding off-planet, create jobs on this planet, and enhance our technology.)