It's the typical husband/sports fan stereotype - he uses the wedding video tape accidentally to tape some classic football game, the wife finds out years later, sleeping on couch ensues.

But this time it's a government program - NASA - and footage of history in the making that nobody else at the party could have shot.

Is there a collective doghouse for NASA?

Is Big Box becoming Big Environment?

Wall Street Journal reported today that Wal-Mart "is requiring manufacturers to figure out the full environmental costs of making their products, and plans to distill the data into simple green ratings that shoppers will eventually see alongside prices for everything from T-shirts to televisions."

Many of you may know who lived at 112 Mercer Street, from 1936 until his death in 1955. The man and I were our for a lovely walk and some delicious frozen yogurt in Princeton Sunday afternoon (just a short drive from here) and I snapped the following two photos for your viewing pleasure. (Camera = my new Palm Pre. Not bad, eh? I like my pic better than the one on the Mercer Hill site.) I didn't see Einstein in person, of course, but you can see him smile about 27 seconds in to this clip.

PhRMA is trying to up their street cred with the newest star pulled into its galaxy: rapper/actor Ice-T.

Honestly, I like Ice-T. As one of the original hip-hoppers and pioneer of gangsta rap, he actuallly had some creativity and intelligence; he's spoken out about war, poor conditions in prison, ghettos, and "good" hip-hop versus "whack" hip-hop. And he's great on Law&Order: SVU.

And I admire that he's trying to reach out to people about high blood pressure (a condition he has) and the risk of heart disease, which is so prevalent in African-Americans.

After a big kerfuffle in March over whether a researcher violated a confidentiality agreement with JAMA, the journal has eased off a bit with an editorial laying out the new policy for reporting conflict of interest.

As I noted in a post in March, Dr. Jonathan Leo alerted JAMA editors to a conflict of interest in an article published last year, which JAMA addressed several months later in a correction and apology published this spring.

Today, July 8th, a fun little phenomenon happens - the numbers 7 through 12 all line up thanks to our Western calendar and time.

At 10:11 am and 12 seconds today, it will be:

July 8, 2009, 10:11:12 - or 07/08/09, 10:11:12.