Oldest Photo of a Human?

A cityscape out an upper floor window by Daguerre may have captured a man having his boots cleaned:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/10/22/130754296/first-photo-of-a-human-being-ever?ft=1&f=1007&sc=YahooNews

Coffee Cup for Space

Last hurdle to space tourism leapt!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7LcugO3zg&feature=player_embedded!@#?

Pleasant News

I recently learned that the classic Mel Tappan book _Survival Guns_ was reprinted last year. It also appears to have been updated. This is good news for me; I have a 7th printing from 1980 and it is literally falling apart. Ordered one through Amazon.