Tales Of Brave Ulysses

Finally, a little bit of good news: Tourist arrivals climbing slowly but steadily. Things might be picking up on Guam again.

Who’s offering this loan – Fat Tony the loan shark?

Unplugging The Matrix – Why the sci-fi franchise went south. By Matt�Feeney

A good essay laying out the difficulties of the Matrix sequels. While I liked Reloaded and Revolutions, they were not equals of the original. And I think Mr. Feeney nails it right on the head: too much pseudo-apocalypse sci-fi in Zion, not enough time hacking inside the Matrix.

A very cool image comparing what astronomers saw on Mars a century ago and now. They certainly got the major features down, but nobody’s found evidence of canals or Martian civilizations.

Following up on Tuesday’s story about fruit bats and lytico-bodig, the PDN offers up a story on the latest research by Dr. Paul Cox, director of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii. This is the story that ran on NPR a couple days ago.