Friday Snippets and Soundbites

• President George W. Bush delivered his last State of the Union address this week. The idea for the update to both houses of Congress was actually written into the Constitution in Article II, Section 3. George Washington began the tradition of detailing the state of the union through a speech, but that tradition didn't last long. Thomas Jefferson fulfilled the Constitutional directive with a letter. The address wasn't spoken for the next 112, until Woodrow Wilson revived the tradition in 1913. Read more about the State of the Union here.

• The sky is falling! Government officials are reporting that a large U.S. spy satellite that recently lost power and propulsion will probably hit the earth sometime in February or March. There's no way to predict where it will hit. This is not the first satellite to unexpectedly drop in. Read more about that here.

• This week, Netherlands native Wim Hof attempted tested out the limits of the human body by becoming a human popsicle. Hof stood in a clear container filled with ice for 72 minutes. He broke his own world record for full body ice contact endurance. If you want to know more about world records, weird or otherwise, go here.

• Think technology and art can't mix? Check out an artist at work in this video. The illustrator is Justin Gerard (who illustrated Andrew Peterson's 2005 album The Far Country) and a part of Portland Studios, an illustration studio in Greenville, S.C.