Two Things

1. Straight-up reblogging this from Warren Ellis, because it's fabulous: a picture of the cosmos, just a few million years old.

   

   It's got mom's eyes and dad's weird, computer-colored wiggly things.

   "Whatever these objects are, they are intrinsically incredibly bright and very different from anything in existence today."…

   "Imagine trying to see fireworks at night from across a crowded city," said Kashlinsky. "If you could turn off the city lights, you might get a glimpse at the fireworks. We have shut down the lights of the Universe to see the outlines of its first fireworks."

   If I ever write comics, my first story will be based on the Batman cover where the Brain makes him want to commit suicide while Robin watches. But my second story will include a villain calmly saying, "We have shut down the lights of the universe."

2. A sign advertising a sleep study caught my eye: "WOMEN! Are you a night owl?" This sounded very strange and still does — first it addresses its reader(s) (implicitly) in the second-person plural, then in the second-person singular. But is this actually unusual? "Hey, kids! Tell your mom to buy you shit!" Perhaps it's just that in English "you" can be both singular and plural, so that ambiguity licenses various shady practices. But somehow the ad's use of the phrase "a night owl" throws a spanner in this particular works. Or am I just making this up? The words have lost all meaning!