Random Thoughts 4/15/10

• I'm very tempted to go to the Tea Party rally over at the T-Bones ballpark. I'm trying to finish up as much work as possible here in the office; I'd love to go over there for a few hours…
• Why would the Navy and Air Force be looking to buy prop planes? Because the Super Tucano is a highly-regarded observational platform. As information becomes almost as more important than speed and firepower, slow flying drones and observation aircraft that can fire a missile or two are more valuable than the costly, high-speed super fighters.
• One of television's greatest writers, Joss Whedon, is being hired to polish the script of Marvel's Captain America movie and to direct their Avengers movie. These two movies just got instantly better.
• The president of the Royal Statistical Society says the global warming "hockey stick" graph is exaggerated. Really? I'm shocked.
• The iPad's major design elements have been out in the open for a couple of years now, according to this article. Hmmm… interesting.
• Of all the large, public gatherings you could go to, the Tea Party rallies sure seem like safe places to go.