High Definition Video Captured of Venus as it Passes Across the Face of the Sun Caught by the Solar Dynamics Observatory

Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun.

During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth's atmospheric chemistry and climate.  SDO provides images with resolution 8 times better than high-definition television and returns more than a terabyte of data each day.

On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event--the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. 

This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years.  The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.

AT&T Wants to Throttle My Unlimited Data Plan!

This morning I received a very disturbing text message from my friends at good 'ol AT&T. Their message was simple read this way:

ATT Free Msg: Your data usage has reached 3GB this month. Using more than 3GB in future billing cycles will result in reduced speeds. You can yadda yadda yadda...

This is the AT&T FU Data Message, as I read it:

Dear valueless AT&T customer, we realize that you signed a contract with us that started several years ago, and although you have 5 active devices with us and pay us in excess of $2500 a year in service plan fees that include an "UNLIMITED DATA PLAN" we are going to tighten the bandwidth thumbscrews on you and limit the speed in which we serve you. FU, have a nice day.

The Unlimited Data Plan contract I signed said just that, Unlimited Data In no place on that contract did it say "If we want to change the contract later on we can" because that is just, well, plain UNAMERICAN, and scummy. So at some later date, they, behind my back, renegotiated my contract to read, we can change the contract as we see fit.

In response to AT&T, I found it fitting that if their contract had an imaginary clause that said they can chage terms, well, then isn't it fair that my contract has some imaginary clauses, too?

1. AT&T, if you throttle down my data rate , how's about I throttle down the rate in which I pay you?
2. I deduct $1.00 off of my bill for every dropped call? Chances are, you'd owe me money at the end of the month.
3. Every day the "No Service" message comes up, I prorate off that days charge.
4. When my phone says E(dge) vs 3G in a confirmed 3G metro area, I pay you the proportional rate of bandwidth delivery, or about 20% of my plan rate.
5. I charge you $75-100 per hour, my approximate book rate, whenever you make me wait to speak to one of those outsourced Indian service people that you can't understand, divided into 6 minute billing, of course. And 2 days of free service when ever that freaking call gets dropped.

AT&T if you want to continue collecting my money, I think it is wise choice for you to continue delivering the Unlimited Data Plan WE agreed to. Additionally, you should take some of that money and set up some cell towers that actually deliver uninterrupted cell service. Otherwise, you may find me changing my contract to CANCELLED.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Now the Wealthiest Whipper Snapper In America.

With the IPO of Facebook behind us, everyone wants to know: Just how much freaking money did this kid walk away with?

Well when all was said & done and the yo-yo stopped bouncing.. $19.18 Billion Dollars.

For all of you working people that have busted your asses, at some job, for the last 20 years, I am here to put what you did and what he did, into perspective.

The US News & World Reports Best High Schools in America for 2012 is out

Every year US News & World Reports ranks the best schools in the country. Their list includes High Schools, Colleges, Universities, Grad Schools & online Schools.

This year, of the 22,000 ranked High Schools in America, 20 of the top 100 or 5% were from New York State, including the prestigious Bronx High School of Science, Queens High School for Science, Stuyvesant High School, and The Staten Island Technical High School.

Of those 20 top 100 New York High Schools, 4 of the top 100 were from Long Island. Those include Locust Valley, Jericho, South Side & Commack.

Schools were graded and ranked on the following criteria;

• Teacher/Student Ratio
• College Readiness
• Math Proficiency
• English Proficiency

Click to see the complete list of the Best High Schools in America.

Click to see the complete list of the Top Ranked High Schools in New York.