Expunging the bookmarks
Slate nails another Explainer. As Cassini gets up close and personal with Saturn, Brendan Koerner tackles "Why Does Saturn Have Rings?" But he has me with the deck, "And how come Earth has none?"
Kinda strange about the up-style headline and down-style decks on Slate. Never noticed that switch'emup before.
Meanwhile, the WSJ tracks down the "Pet Goat" book that President Bush was reading when he learned of the Sept. 11 attacks. Saving us the WSJ.com subscription price, E&P gives us a brief. Anyone with children's book experience has to enjoy the plot: "It shows what happens after a girl is ordered by her parents to get rid of her pet goat, who has been munching everything in its path. The goat becomes a hero in the home, however, when a burglar invades and the goat butts him into submission."
And speaking of butting one into submission, the executive editor of commentary at CNET's News.com, Charles Cooper (not the same as my uncle Chuck), writes a piece about software upgrades. His headline is what got me to read: "Homey, don't play that software upgrade."
