Hair-splitting commentaries on society, culture, and current events

Attempts to find the deep and profound in things light and straight-forward. Social commentary, cutural criticism, and philosophical observations and musings intended to complexify, connect, and rightly, or wrongly, amuse. Assembled with reckless abandon, and served up with pleasure. Menu choices and philosophical observations include: politics, current events, online communities, online trends, academic movements, theory, web and internet research, and literature.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Bullet the cold sky


"On cloud nine" is said to have come from references long ago (like a hundred years ago) to the number nine cloud in meteorological descriptions. Cloud number nine was the big puffy one. Here's a picture of a rare cloud formation just formed over Antarctica. Clouds like these take temperatures of less than mins 172 F. I guess it was minus 189 in the stratosphere where these clouds formed. The pearly coloring is their hallmark. Pearly lining beats silver lining, methinks.