Written by: Beck
International sandwich store chain Subway announced it's bringing back ads
featuring famous ex-fat-person Jared, and a nation of commercial watchers groans. Even
South Park couldn't make Jared watchable (hint to would-be TV writers: twenty-minute long running jokes hinging on the fact that AIDS and aides are homophones are a bad idea). And people ask me why I watch almost no television...
In other news, the European Space Agency is
embarking on a project to study ways to deflect or destroy potentially earth-threatening asteroids. The article is vaguely interesting, especially if you're a space watcher, but I link to it because the article contains what I think may well be the single worst synopsis ever penned of a major literary work.
The slam-bang 'Don Quijote' mission would help scientists figure out how to deflect or destroy any asteroid in the future that might be found to be on a collision course with Earth. The project uses the Spanish spelling of Don Quixote, the protagonist in Cervantes' novel who has chivalrous ideas that tend toward the impractical.
I'm actually rather impressed with the government agency's choice of project names. It's not often that any government agency holds itself to such lofty standards of truth in advertising.