Obama exceeds 65535 contributions, breaks Excel

Most people are still using Microsoft tools from before 2007, so they hit the annoying limit of 65535 rows:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10609.html

Clinton also hit the limit.

Massive Solar Power -- backed by Google, Chevron

Half a million mirrors! Ouch, my eyes!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a_TUtlIwV7Fw

Funniest Newspaper Headlines

Pretty good ones:

http://www.oddee.com/item_96156.aspx

Buying a Jungle

If Brazil put the Amazon jungle up for sale, it could fetch $50 billion

http://www.smh.com.au/news/conservation/we-could-buy-the-amazon-for-52b-tycoon/2008/05/27/1211653986834.html

Smart Student?

I guess he was bored... Entertaining way to take a test:

http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/upload/exam1.jpg

Jumping to earth from 25 miles up

What a cool thing to try:
http://gizmodo.com/393142/frenchman-plummeting-25-miles-from-the-sky-will-break-sound-barrier-world-records

Unfortunately, his balloon blew away without him onboard. So I guess he'll have to try again later:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=673380d7-9f6a-499e-9e7c-aef2cfffe1e9

The dark side of New York

Pictures over 30 years:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=402544

Mars lander video

Pretty cool movie animation of the flight, touchdown, and sampling:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080525m.html