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News -- The Wall Street Journal says Josh Agle (aka Shag) is a hot artist, with his work popping up all over on items like postcards and pens -- http://www.shag-art.com/gallery.html Comment: Check out this guy's Website and I think you'll find his work looks very familiar. To me, it looks like he worked on the art for the Lucas Arts game "Grim Fandango." News -- Apple store to open at 12 Oaks in Novi: http://www.apple.com/retail/twelveoaks/ Comment -- The family and I have visited the Apple store in Palo Alto (the nation's first) and it's like a holy shrine to all things Apple. I think the local tech workers and Stanford students think an Apple store is pretty hip, but I wonder if it will make much of a splash in dull old southeast Michigan. News: Scientists find evidence that a big 'old rock smacked the Earth 3.5 billion years ago --http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/23/science/23METE.html Comment: A collision this size (estimated 12-30 miles wide), if it happened today, could be seriously annoying: "The heat would have killed all single-cell microbes, the only life on Earth at the time, on land and in the upper ocean, which would have boiled into steam. The impact appears to have sent giant tsunamis coursing around the world's oceans, scouring the early continents. Boiled away the upper oceans? Ouch, that's gotta hurt. When you read about what they think happened with a 12-30 mile wide asteroid strike, it highlights how ridiculous it was in the movie Armageddon when the movie characters talked about trying to prevent a strike from a comet "the size of Texas". First of all, an object that big would have been detected hundreds of years earlier. Second, there's no way you could have diverted or altered an object that was 260,000 square miles in size. Finally, if we actually did get hit by something that big, it wouldn't just boil away the oceans, it might break the planet into pieces. Click here to see current comments and add your own. 11:37:27 AM 
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