Things Slate's Trailhead blog tells about presidential hopeful Ron Paul's blimp, currently straddling the Maryland-Delaware border 1500 feet off the ground:

• It is cold! Temperatures on board have dipped to 28 degrees.

• One message plastered on the side of the blimp—"Who is Ron Paul?"—is an homage to Ayn Rand's "Who is John Galt?" closer of her novel Atlas Shrugged. The other message is "Ron Paul Revolution," with the "evol" highlighted as a backwards "love."

• People aboard the blimp say things like, "You can't keep to a tight schedule ... you're on blimp time now."

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