When they found public typos, Deck and Herson were careful to seek the permission of the signs’ owners to make the needed changes.

Around 60 percent took a defensive posture and declined any typo services, notably two people who threatened the pair when they were about to fix a sign on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. They were warned to “keep walking or they would make sure we didn’t walk again,” Deck said.

They also ran into trouble at the Grand Canyon where they were arrested for fixing bad grammar in an official sign. A federal judge fined them $3,000 and banned them from speaking publicly about fixing typos for a year, a period that expired in August 2009.

“U.S. typo vigilantes correct errant signage” by Jon Hurdle, Reuters 8-23-10

Brave men of TEAL, Pittsburgh Α to Ω salutes you!

Correct joyously and cuídate.

Live long and cuídate.

Police believe Kohnert — fully costumed in the yellow banana costume — exposed himself to a woman at the Port Angeles Wendy’s restaurant and drove through Four Seasons Ranch brandishing a shotgun.

Anthony Marks Maybury, 21, was arrested for investigation of reckless endangerment.

An 18-year-old woman was in the car with them, but Pieper did not name her because she was not arrested nor is she thought to be involved in any crimes.

“The banana costume has been seized and put into evidence,” Pieper said.

“[Kohnert] couldn’t really tell us why he was in the costume.

“All we know is he was drinking earlier in the day, but he didn’t really have a reason for the costume.”

The Port Angeles Police Department received the first report about a costumed man at about 6 p.m., after he was seen at Wendy’s, Pieper said.

After leaving Wendy’s in a Dodge Stratus, Kohnert — the costumed man — and Maybury drove to Saar’s Market on U.S. Highway 101 on the east side of Port Angeles, Pieper said.

“They then were called in for a car doing a burnout — in other words pulling 360s in the Saar’s Market parking lot,” Pieper said.

“They did not, it appears, get out at Saar’s, though.”

After leaving Port Angeles, the group made a stop at Four Seasons Ranch, where Kohnert — still dressed in the banana costume — got out, brandished a shotgun and began yelling, Pieper said.

“We believe he was yelling something or other about white supremacy,” Pieper said.

“Deputies arrest man in banana costume with shotgun” by Paige Dickerson, Peninsula Daily News 8-20-10

Only two letters’ difference between “plantain” and “plantation”.

Just sayin’.

Have fun and cuídate.

But for an object long thought tectonically dead, the discovery of “recent” faulting on the lunar surface indicative of shrinkage is pretty surprising. It’s but the latest indication that “this isn’t your grandfather’s moon anymore,” says Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington.

“When you look at the new information we’ve garnered with a number of different missions to the moon over the last year, we’re now talking about the moon in a completely different way,” he says. “It was thought to be dead and unchanging. And now you have this dynamism.”

The changes the LRO has uncovered may be taking place on geological time scales, he explains. But recent evidence that the moon has its own active, if spare, hydrological cycle has revealed a process that occurs on weekly and monthly time scales.

The moon’s newfound dynamism is “just unlike what folks were thinking of a year ago,” Dr. Wargo says.

“The moon is shrinking.  No, seriously.” by Pete Spotts, CSM 8-19-10

We see these sorts of features on many bodies in the solar system, including the Earth, where their origin is from tectonic plate motion. As the continental plates move past each other, friction allows the pressure to build up. There’s no such drift on the Moon — the surface is essentially one big piece — so something else must be causing it.

Shrinkage makes the most sense. The interior of the Moon is still warm from the leftover heat from its formation billions of years ago. Hundreds of kilometers of rock makes a pretty good insulator, so the Moon has cooled very slowly. As the interior cools, it shrinks, and the surface collapses down as well. Pressure builds, then snap! While a lot of these scarps are very long and dozens of meters in height, LRO’s sharp vision (it can see objects less than a meter in size!) can spot scarps that are only a kilometer or two in length and a few meters high. That sort of feature is not possible to see from Earth. They’re too small.

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Well, you have to put this into perspective: the Moon’s diameter is about 3475 kilometers. This shrinkage is only about 0.003% of that. In other words, you’d never, ever be able to see that by comparing the Moon’s diameter now as it was, say, a billion years ago. So we’re not in any danger of the Moon collapsing down into a tiny little ball!

What it does mean is that despite it being perhaps the most well-studied object in the sky, our Moon is still capable of surprising us. Not only that, but some of its secrets are actually rather big, but so well-hidden we need to study the Moon pretty carefully to uncover them. Happily, we’re doing just that. There’s not a scientist on the planet who doesn’t like surprises, especially when they’ve been sitting right there in the sky for us to find.

“The Moon is shrinking!” by Phil Plait, Discover‘s Bad Astronomy blog, 8-19-10

Still no word from NASA about Luna being artificial, covered with ancient monuments/devices and more recent Nazi/Nasty Alien bases, or about Luna’s interior being inhabited by beneficent robots guiding humanity’s development according to the Zeroth Law.  Instead, we’re asked to believe that it’s shrinking.

Please.

Have fun and cuídate.

When you looked at me

I should’ve run

But I thought it was just for fun

I see I was wrong

And I’m not so strong

I should’ve known all along

That time would tell

The Go-Gos, “Vacation”

Officers Richard Ewing, Michael Saldutte and David Sisak were placed on paid administrative leave in February following their controversial Jan. 12 arrest of 18-year-old then-CAPA High School student Jordan Miles, who has accused the officers of attacking him without cause. But while the three officers enjoy extended vacations, the city has ensured that their wallets are at least as fat as they were when the officers were actually working.

A City Paper analysis of public pay records has found that, from February to June, officers Ewing, Saldutte and Sisak have so far taken home $27,289, $29,570 and $32,465, respectively. And the officers could be entitled to even more remuneration.

“It strikes me as ridiculous,” says Tim Stevens, chairman of the Black Political Empowerment Project. “It seems like an insult to the citizens.”

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According to FOP attorney Bryan Campbell, Ewing, Saldutte and Sisak are assured of receiving their base salaries and court premiums for testifying in court about arrests made prior to the Miles incident. Police on active duty receive overtime pay — at time-and-a-half — for time spent in court when those hours are in addition to the regular duties of their normal 40-hour work week. But although the officers in the Miles case currently have no regular duties, they are receiving the overtime pay rate as well.

“If you’re going to put them on administrative leave, they should be entitled to those other payments,” Campbell says. “Otherwise, you’re punishing them.”

And, as he explains, the officers are innocent until proven guilty. “The perception is — and this is wrong — that administrative leave is punishment,” he says. “Why would you punish somebody even before you know what the facts are?”

“Pay Daze” by Chris Young, CP 8-12-10

So, Jordan’s attackers continue to get bank and Jordan continues to get bupkes.  Meanwhile, Bradley Manning, whose innocence is similarly presumed, continues his unpaid vacation in Quantico, following a similarly unpaid two-month sabbatical in the Theater Field Confinement Facility at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.  Guess if you work for the force or the forces and want to hook up a months-long paid vacation, allegedly brutalizing kids is a much safer bet than allegedly leaking classified media.

In these instances, anyway.

Wouldn’t want to jump to conclusions.

For more, dig Justice for Jordan Miles and the Bradley Manning Support Network.

Have fun and cuídate.