Illinois GOP can't find homegrown candidate, outsources US Senate race

Seems the Illinois Republican honchos can't find anyone upstate or downstate to take on Barack Obama, so they're considering outsourcing the task to Alan Keyes of Maryland: GOP wooing Keyes to take on Obama

Slashdot: 503

So, what's the deal with /. these days? For the past couple of days I’ve been getting 500 and 503 errors from the site? DDOS attack?

Meteor Over Manhattan

I just saw a meteor drop over the southern tip of Manhattan. Not sure if that's a good sign or not.

I was sitting on the promenade facing west when what I thought was a plane caught my eye, traveling from behind me to the south across the bay between the Statue of Liberty and the Battery. I then realized it couldn't be a plane because it was traveling very fast and was near-vertical.

It disappeared at about 25°-30° from the horizontal.

I had no sense of depth — for all I know it was over NJ the entire time.

I'll take it as a propitious sign, 'cause I really can't do with more bad or grim news, or terror warnings, etc.