To give permission or authorization to something or to penalize for not obeying a law or principle. Little known fact: The Clash wrote "Should I Stay or Should I Go" after having a giant discussion about whether a sanction was a good thing or a bad thing. The label sanctioned the song, although they debated sanctioning them for using the studio for a language debate.
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Astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Terry Virts did a spacewalk in Febrary to reconfigure a satellite outside the International Space Station. They took along a GoPro camera to record the footage, which NASA has uploaded this week. It is stunning.
The footage is an hour long, but fortunately, a YouTube user listed a number of good shots (2:23, 19:35, 34:21, 38:15, 40:48, 44:28, 44:34, 48:47, 49:20, 51:48, 55:58, 1:01:09, 1:02:17).
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The NBA Playoffs start tomorrow, which seems like a good time to revisit the mid-2000s NBA commercials featuring Ali G. The best two are the ones with Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash, but they're all amusing.