Jace Daniel: Storyteller, Author, Media Designer

Stop Clapping Already

“Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it’s a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, ‘Well, okay, that’s enough of that.'”
— George Carlin

Anonymity in the Information Age

87% of the U.S. population can be uniquely identified if only a date of birth, a gender, and five-digit ZIP code are known.

Source: Latanya Sweeney, Carnegie Mellon University

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No astronomy term is misused more frequently than the word meteor. It’s often used incorrectly, even by scientists, when meteoroid or meteorite is the accurate term. Here are the correct meanings:

A meteoroid is a small, solid object in space, usually a fragment from an asteroid or comet, orbiting the Sun. Some rare meteoroids are actually rocks blasted off Mars and the Earth’s Moon.

A meteor is the flash of light produced when a naturally occurring small, solid object (a meteoroid) enter’s Earth’s atmosphere from space; people often call meteors “shooting stars” or “falling stars”.

A meteorite is a solid object from space that has fallen to the surface of the Earth.

Source: Stephen P. Maran, Ph.D.

Reality Abstracted

“Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.”
— Robert Smithson

GMS Kit, NAMM 2006

I wanted to take this home. The pix are blurry, but you get the idea.

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Just Go, Man

“Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.”
— Chuck Yeager

The Year of the Dog Begins

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January 29th is the first day of the Chinese New Year. While 2006 is technically the year of the dog, I must say that every year’s my year of the dog.

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