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The Onion | Why No One Want Make Hulk 2? A good question.

Space: The Onion | The Onion In History for July 21, 1969. Roger, Houston.

Tech: DSKY Simulator is a Javascript version of the Lunar Module’s main computer. Happy 35th anniversary, Apollo 11. NASA, where’s my damn skycar?

One of my favorite bands, They Might Be Giants (TMBG) answers questions about DRM, from MSNBC:

“Q: Is this the way you see things going in the future - artists securing digital rights?

A: It was a strange negotiation. Extracting them was not as simple as it sounds, and most people don’t go to the effort of holding on to that stuff. I feel like in some ways we’re just a couple of beats ahead of the general curve. It remains to be seen how great it will be. I wouldn’t be surprised if paying for recorded music becomes an obsolete idea in general.

Q: How would you eat, then?

A: That’s my problem. Being a musician is an unreasonable idea anyway. The life expectancy of a professional career in music is five or 10 years. That would be a long run. It’s not something you do because you’re being sensible. We’ve been curiously blessed with an audience that was interested in what we’re doing in a pretty sincere way. It’s hard to say why we endure. I think the sad thing is that we’re going to see a lot more actors making records and the whole thing is going to seem like a bad superprovincial version of rock.”

USA: Yahoo! News - U.S. Moving Weapons Out of South Korea: It makes people in Hawaii a little nervous too, especially since the North Koreans have been playing with their rockets. Again. “‘This is a very intensive operation, involving a large amount of equipment,’ Johnson said. ‘The scale of this operation is about five times that of what we ordinarily do.’ ”