Worst Supermarkets in America

We'll get to that in a second. It's the headline because no one's going to click to see fuzzy images of distant glories. So:

SCIENCE! A look at the latest awe-inspiring Hubble photo of a tiny corner of the universe, courtesy of Slate's Bad Astronomer:

Zoom in, and the quantity of galaxies is astonishing. Not stars: galaxies.

Speaking of galaxies far, far away, Slashfilm says:

Why is Boba Fett a bad guy, necessarily? Because he transported Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt? It was just a job. I guess we know he was BAD because he stuck around at Boba's for the party, but that seems uncharacteristic; who wants to spend much time with bitt & his sycophants? That place must have smelled horrible. Well, he went screaming into a Sarlac maw, so there's no suspense in a movie. Whatever happens, we'd know he survived, because we saw him die later.

He was interesting because we couldn't see his face, and his few lines were delivered with menace. His suit was banged up - part of the battered, inhabited world that made "Star Wars" look different from previous sci-fi.

Wait, you say: he didn't get eaten by the Sarlacc! Wookiepedia:

RETAIL The 13 Worst Supermarkets in America. Not one is aRound Your neighborhood, to my surprise.

URBANISM No one will miss this:

Except that we will, when they're all gone. Another large project - huge, really - is slated for Dinkytown, and while it's a good sign, there's a point at which the nature of Dinkytown is changed for good. You may say: blocks and blocks of new housing replacing tumbledown carved-up houses is progress, and for the most part I agree - but I hope the end result is the improvement of the century-old housing stock, not its abolition.

It's just amazing to see these blocks rise one after the other, each more luxurious than the last; when I lived in Dtown everyone lived in rooms in sad old houses, cut up into tiny rooms with dented drywall.

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