When I was in grade school, this would have been concept art in Life magazine:
Now it's an ordinary sight. Oh yeah right, space. But if you're the sort who grew up thinking you might take a Pan Am craft up to the Space Staton where you'd look out the window at Earth, enjoying a cup of coffee from the nearby Howard Johnson's, this is for you:
As much as I'd love to link to the page where I got this, I can't; it's a family newspaper, as we like to say. You're asking: how NSFW can a science page be? It's called IFLS, or I (bleeping) Love Science, and the effenheimer is right there in the name of the page in your browser bar. Some people may find this offensive; I find it banal and childish. According to the editor's blog, the site is teaming up with the Science Channel, which I expect will not say the name of the site, because they don't want to be the ones who assist the general acceptance of the F word as a normative lingo. But it's en route; I've always said it's a matter of time before it's on a billboard somewhere. This ad is running in the paper:
Tee hee! Oh, these people are so brave.
WEB A reminder: if you write headlines in the afternoon, don't drink at lunch.
Of course, no one drinks at lunch anymore. That would be a sign of a problem. When I went to work in DC there were reporters who put away four drinks over lunch and slept at their typewriter for the afternoon, but that changed; the younger generation had no intention of dulling their edge. But this Brit, writing in the Spectator, wants to save the boozy lunch:
A lost cause, and he knows it.
