J. Beaman - The Magazine

McCain at the debate:

[Obama] voted for nearly a billion dollars in pork barrel earmark projects, including, by the way, $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago, Illinois.

Um, really? An overhead projector? God, What a dick.

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Three million dollars of pure fucking awesomeness. And there’s one in Oakland. From Wired:

The projector, which has 60 motors and 130 projectors, can project an image of what the sky looked at any time during the past 10,000 years, or what it will look like during the next 10,000 years.

An innovation of the Model IX is its ability to project the sky from locations in space — previous projectors could only provide earth-bound views of the heavens.

The projector uses digital images acquired from space — and the help of two Windows NT computers — to provide these views. On its website, Zeiss said that it is especially proud of the Model IX’s projections of the Milky Way galaxy, which for the first time is “rendered by an in-focus optical image” instead of the “blurred silhouette projection” of old planetariums.

The Universarium’s projections of the Milky Way look so much like the real thing, Zeiss said, that “visitors might even use binoculars to discover more of it.”

Why did John McCain turn into such a douchenozzle?