Plutocracy

Last week, as you may know, the International Astronomical Union revised their definition of a planet, and in the process demoted Pluto to a "dwarf planet".

This has caused a surprising amount of controversy online, as some people seem to be weirdly attached to the ninth planet. Why this is such a hot-button issue suddenly is beyond me. Since I don't want to add any fuel to this silly debate, I will simply post the following and then be done with it.



Also, let the record show that I refrained from all Disney-related jokes. You're welcome.

By the way, the above photo is courtesy of Worth1000.com, a site that hosts an ongoing series of Photoshop contests. It's a very entertaining site which I highly recommend. The inventiveness of some Photoshoppers is just plain amazing.

In equally nerdy news, the 2006 Hugo Award winners were announced over the weekend. Congrats to all the winners, but especially to the previously mentioned John Scalzi on winning the Best New Writer award, and also to Joss Whedon and friends for winning "Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form" (aka Best Movie) for Serenity. Now that was a damn good movie.

I wasn't especially surprised that Serenity won, though it had some extremely tough competition from Batman Begins, Harry Potter 4, the Chronicles of Narnia, and Wallace & Gromit. Any of those five easily could have won.

OK, I have to go, but one more "Worth 1000" photo was too good to pass up, so I'll leave you with this:

As usual, click on image for larger version