This is completely unrelated to everything except that I found it on BoingBoing.
WTF astronauts have their fingernails fall off?? Someone design a better glove now. O.o
That has never been mentioned in mainstream scifi. Ewww.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/100913-science-space-astronauts-gloves-fingernails-injury/
While I'm being offtopic,
Homeless people need good customer service too
http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/how_good_customer_service_helps_the_homeless
And I hear there's a TED talk about it... now, some % of TED talks strike me as meaningless crap, but this sounds pretty impressively interesting.
Haven't watched it yet, but... hmn. http://www.ted.com/talks/becky_blanton_the_year_i_was_homeless.html