Northern Lights Not So Northern

Several readers have written with news of an unusual display of the Aurora Borealis, among them Georgie Porgie, who writes: "Crawl away from those terminals and step out side for a view of the norther lights... I am in Columbia, Missouri, USA Approx 39.9 N latitude and I am looking at the northern lights... Hope the networks are up tommorow... See what causes the lights at http://www.spaceweather.com/" fjordboy points to this excellent noaa.gov link, too.

Giant Green Blob

[gnovos]

I saw a giant green blob today too, here in San Francisco. It was from 8:15 to about 10:00. Reportedly it was caused by Pixar... Oh, and there was a strange Star Wars teaser before the blob started...