Category Archives: Fun

Is that a snake in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

I think Jenna was happy to have a snake in her pocket….

That Gunk on Your Car

Jonah points to link by Kottke to series of close-up photos of insects splatered on windshields. The images are truly cool and not gross at all.
This immediately reminded me of a funny, yet excellent book I read a few years ago, That Gunk on Your Car: A Unique Guide to Insects of North America by Mark Hostetler, which helps you identify the insects by the shape, size and color of the splatter they leave on your windshield.

How to tip a cow

More than 15%, I hope,….if you can:
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Professor Steve Steve – new pictures

A few are under the fold, but many more can be found here.

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Science Scouts Badges

More badges have been added. Number #48 has written ME all over:
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Before coming to the States and getting into grad school in Zoology, I was in vet school and I spent endless hours with my arm up to the shoulder inside horses’ recta (and sometimes cows’) both treating sick ones and doing some experiments in excercise physiology (that’s horses, not cows). Later, I probed the quail rectally (really, cloacally) on a number of occasions. I am a sicko!

One of my favourite words ever

I use it all the time. Today’s Merriam-Webster Word Of The Day:

grok \GROCK\ verb
: to understand profoundly and intuitively
Example sentence:
No matter how many times I try to explain it, my grandmother just can’t grok what a blog is and why anyone would want to read one.
Did you know?
“Grok” may be the only English word that derives from Martian. Yes, we do mean the language of the planet Mars. No, we’re not getting spacey; we’ve just ventured into the realm of science fiction. “Grok” was introduced in Robert A. Heinlein’s 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. The book’s main character, Valentine Michael Smith, is a Martian-raised human who comes to earth as an adult, bringing with him words from his native tongue and a unique perspective on the strange, strange ways of earthlings. “Grok” was quickly adopted by the youth culture of America and has since peppered the vernacular of those who grok it, from the hippies of the ’60s to the computerniks of the ’90s.

Bowling Bloggers

Not every bloggers’ meetup has to be talking about blogging. We can also just get together and have fun. And so we did last night. A bunch of us went bowling.
On Wednesday nights they have great family rates. We got four lanes – one for kids, three for adults. My daughter tends to start out slow and get better and better as the time goes. In the end, she got some tens.
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I am the opposite – my very first practice shot was a strike and I won the first game, but I get progressively more and more tired. Anton won the second game easily. In the end, my wrist and fingers were hurting so much, I was dropping the ball. And I am hurting all over today! You can see some more pictures here.

Cool Clocks

Considering the name of this blog, you may not be surprised that I am a sucker for clocks and watches. If I had more walls and more money, I’d collect them by dozens (hundreds?). Grow-a-Brain has been collecting links to sites showing all kinds of clocks.
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I wish I could have something like this, this or this for the house and this for the pocket.

I Knew It Was Turtles All The Way Down….

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And there’s many, many more here. Do not look on empty stomach. I was just about to eat an eclair, but now I think I’ll wait a little….
(Via)

O.O.T.S.S.O.E.R.A.A.A.P.

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Yes, I was never a member of Boy Scouts (no such thing in Yugoslavia, of course), but I will gladly join the Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique, the brand new organization founded by the folks of World’s Fair and the Science Creative Quarterly. Steve of Omni Brain and John Lynch have already signed up.
Above Average Physique? I am super-skinny. But OK, I am tall. And energetic. And have a deep bass voice. That should count…
So, of the possible badges, which ones apply to me? Let’s see…

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DNA can look really pretty…

DNA%20pattern_01.png…when painted base-by-base.

Since all the cool kids are doing it, part II

Your results:
You are Poison Ivy



































Poison Ivy
77%
Dr. Doom
73%
Apocalypse
63%
The Joker
62%
Magneto
61%
Lex Luthor
61%
Riddler
54%
Mr. Freeze
54%
Juggernaut
49%
Dark Phoenix
46%
Catwoman
46%
Mystique
41%
Kingpin
30%
Green Goblin
29%
Venom
28%
Two-Face
17%
You would go to almost any length for the protection of the environment including manipulation and elimination.


Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test

Since all the cool kids are doing it, part I

Ready for another liveblogged colonoscopy?

A good reason not to de-blogroll blogs on hiatus – they may come back as much as TWO YEARS later. Like the I Love Colonoscopies blog just did. I know you want to click on that link and explore the archives. Go ahead!

Harry Potter Mania on Blogs

Now that the Seventh Book is available for pre-order (and beating all the records, not to mention being #1 on Amazon), there is gooing to be a lot of blogospheric speculation about it, e.g., who dies, what happens and how it ends. So, between now and July 21st, as well as afterwards, read the Carnival of Harry Potter and submit your entries to it whenever you write something about it. The latest edition, posted last night, is up on Pensieve.

Oh, how thoughtful of the Intelligent Designer!

A-ha! Finally! Now I understand the connection between Creationism and the overall anti-sex sentiment of the Fundamentalists!
New reseaarch shows that E.coli swim upstream due to the Design of their flagellum! And where do they swim from and swim to? Yes, you guessed it right! And you can also watch the movie.

Semidead?

Sounds like Washington Press Corps over the past six years (and more). But really, it has something to do with genetics. Either you are alive, or you are fully, truly dead, or you are just not dead yet.

I was tagged…

…by Matt. No celebrity is very much look-alike with me (and I included only male faces to eliminate Lindsay Lohan’s childhood picture):

http://www.myheritage.com

Everyone’s a Little Bit Jewish

Since I think that Fiddler on the Roof is the best musical ever, of course I totally loved this:

(Found here by Joolya)
I blogged somewhere before (I cannot find it now – darned Google and Technorati are imperfect!) that I think that, upon arriving in America, the fourth daughter married a black guy and the fifth daughter married a woman. I never expected one to marry a puppet!

I hope they come in chocolate glazed version

Perhaps it’s time for me to get serious about eating doughnuts!
(Hat tip: Greg)

Of course…

What Kind of Reader Are You?

Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm

You’re probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people’s grammatical mistakes make you insane.

Dedicated Reader
Literate Good Citizen
Book Snob
Non-Reader
Fad Reader
What Kind of Reader Are You?
Create Your Own Quiz

(Hat-tip: Grrrrl)

All the cool folks are doing it….

I am:

Robert A. Heinlein

Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Quotidian

The Merriam-Webster Word of the Day for January 27, 2007 is:
quotidian • \kwoh-TID-ee-un\ • adjective
1 : occurring every day
*2 : belonging to each day : everyday
3 : commonplace, ordinary
Example Sentence:
As an employee, Fiona is gifted at solving the difficult problems that arise from time to time, but she is often careless about the quotidian responsibilities of her job.
Did you know?
In Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, the character Rosalind observes that Orlando, who has been running about in the woods carving her name on trees and hanging love poems on branches, “seems to have the quotidian of love upon him.” Shakespeare’s use doesn’t make it clear that “quotidian” derives from a Latin word that means “every day.” But as odd as it may seem, Shakespeare’s use of “quotidian” is just a short semantic step away from the “daily” adjective sense. Some fevers occur intermittently — sometimes daily. The phrase “quotidian fever” and the noun “quotidian” have long been used for such recurring maladies. Poor Orlando is simply afflicted with such a “fever” of love.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

Sort of like “circadian”. Perhaps one day I’ll use ‘quotidian’ in a paper instead of ‘circadian’ just to see what reviewers say…

Do-it-yourself Biology

When I was a kid, there was no such thing as “do it yourself” biology for home. Sure, you could do observational stuff, like go out in the woods with a butterfly net and a magnifi\ying glass, or plant some seeds, or look at stuff under the microscope, but it was hard to do real experiments in biology.
My favourite trio of childhood science books (recently reissued) were “Between Play and Physics”, “Between Play and Chemistry” and “Between Play and Mathematics” – see, no biology there!
But the world of science has changed since then and there is much more stuff that one can do at home that is real experimental biology – especially molecular biology.
These days, you can run a gel in an electrophoresis setup built out of Legos or extract your own stem cells from a placenta (if you can get hold of one), or a whole bunch of other stuff. Even more sophisticated ready-made stuff, e.g., science kits, are not that expensive any more.
Perhaps someone should write “Between Play and Biology” one of these days.

Where I’ve been

Tagged by Josh:

This application is created by interactive maps.
You can also have your visited countries map on your site.

If you see this message, you need to upgrade your flash player.

var so = new SWFObject(“http://www.interactivemaps.org/visited_countries/visited_countries.swf”, “visitedcountries”, 364, 225, “7”, “#000000″);
addLocation(‘AT’, ”, ”, ”); //Austria
addLocation(‘BE’, ”, ”, ”); //Belgium
addLocation(‘BA’, ”, ”, ”); //Bosnia and Herzegovina
addLocation(‘HR’, ”, ”, ”); //Croatia
addLocation(‘DK’, ”, ”, ”); //Denmark
addLocation(‘DE’, ”, ”, ”); //Germany
addLocation(‘HU’, ”, ”, ”); //Hungary
addLocation(‘IT’, ”, ”, ”); //Italy
addLocation(‘NL’, ”, ”, ”); //Netherlands
addLocation(‘CS’, ”, ”, ”); //Serbia and Montenegro
addLocation(‘SK’, ”, ”, ”); //Slovakia
addLocation(‘SI’, ”, ”, ”); //Slovenia
addLocation(‘SE’, ”, ”, ”); //Sweden
addLocation(‘UK’, ”, ”, ”); //United Kingdom
addLocation(‘US’, ”, ”, ”); //United States
addToFlash();
so.addVariable(“stageWidth”, 364);
so.addVariable(“stageHeight”, 225);
so.addVariable(“infoOver”, “enabled”);
so.addVariable(“zoomFunction”, “checked”);
so.addVariable(“bgColor”, “666666”);
so.addVariable(“visitedColor”, “5EB7DE”);
so.addVariable(“notVisitedColor”, “CDCDCD”);
so.addVariable(“countryBordersColor”, “666666”);
so.addVariable(“helpTextColor”, “000000”);
so.addVariable(“helpText”, “Mark the area you wish to zoom in”);
so.addParam(“scale”, “noscale”);
so.addParam(“salign”, “lt”);
so.write(“visitedcountries”);

Make your visited countries map Interactive flash maps
This application is created by interactive maps.
You can also have your visited states map on your site.

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var so = new SWFObject(“http://www.interactivemaps.org/visited_states/visited_states.swf”, “visitedstates”, 364, 195, “7”, “#000000″);
addLocation(‘FL’, ”, ”, ”); //Florida
addLocation(‘GA’, ”, ”, ”); //Georgia
addLocation(‘IL’, ”, ”, ”); //Illinois
addLocation(‘MA’, ”, ”, ”); //Massachusetts
addLocation(‘MD’, ”, ”, ”); //Maryland
addLocation(‘NC’, ”, ”, ”); //North Carolina
addLocation(‘NH’, ”, ”, ”); //New Hampshire
addLocation(‘NJ’, ”, ”, ”); //New Jersey
addLocation(‘NY’, ”, ”, ”); //New York
addLocation(‘PA’, ”, ”, ”); //Pennsylvania
addLocation(‘SC’, ”, ”, ”); //South Carolina
addLocation(‘VA’, ”, ”, ”); //Virginia
addLocation(‘VT’, ”, ”, ”); //Vermont
addToFlash();
so.addVariable(“stageWidth”, 364);
so.addVariable(“stageHeight”, 195);
so.addVariable(“infoOver”, “enabled”);
so.addVariable(“zoomFunction”, “checked”);
so.addVariable(“bgColor”, “666666”);
so.addVariable(“visitedColor”, “F0A74B”);
so.addVariable(“notVisitedColor”, “CDCDCD”);
so.addVariable(“countryBordersColor”, “666666”);
so.addVariable(“helpTextColor”, “000000”);
so.addVariable(“helpText”, “Mark the area you wish to zoom in”);
so.addParam(“scale”, “noscale”);
so.addParam(“salign”, “lt”);
so.write(“visitedstates”);

Make your visited states map Interactive flash maps

Compared to my brother and to my lab-buddy Chris who have travelled to, like, every continent, I have been pretty stationary in my life. Some of the countries and states I checked I really only travelled through (if I stopped to get a snack, it counts!). I am more of a type who goes to the same place over and over again (e.g., England).

A subversive backwards message in Jingle Bells?

Hear it for yourself!

Pictures of Professor Steve Steve

Below the fold are the pictures of me, Prof. Steve Steve and Rev.Big Dumb Chimp taken immediately after the Ken Miller talk in Raleigh. If we look a little drunk or high, it is because we were just subjected to an overdose of theistic evolution and religious apologetics!

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Hanukah meme

Somehow I feel that I’ve been tagged by Janet for this meme, because it is public that we celebrate Hannukkah. But we really make it low-key, family-only, and have only been doing it for about a dozen years so far. Actually, this is the first time that we had guests for the first night.
1. Latkes or Sufganiyot?
Latkes. Mrs.Coturnix is a superb Latke-Meister.
2. Multi-colored candles or blue-and-white?
Coturnix Jr. lights the blue-and-white candles, Coturnietta lights the multicolored.
3. Do you place the Hanukiah by the window or away from the window?
In this house, away from the window due to fire hazards. We do have Hannukkah light-decorations in the window, including one shaped like a hanukiah, so we plug them in at night.
4. Favorite Holiday Dish?
Brisket that Mrs.Coturnix fixed this year will be remembered for years to come. I am still salivating at the thought of it.
5. Favorite Holiday Memory?
Well, we do it so low-key, there is no big memory really. It’s not a big event. We make a much bigger deal about Passover.
6. One Hanukiah or more than one?
Two this year as both kids are big enough and interested enough to light each its own.
7. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Only kids get gifts in our house.
8. Favorite Holiday Dessert?
Kugel. The way Mrs. Coturnix makes it.
9. Favorite Holiday Song?
None really. After a few years, the Hannukkah songs sound just as kitchy as Christmas songs. Ocho Kandelikas by Flory Jagoda may be my all-time favourite. ‘Fergilicious’ was this year’s hit, I’m afraid.

Year in Review Meme

OK, everyone is doing this (Janet was the last one I saw), so I’ll do it, too. Instead of writing a creative year in review, just copy the first sentence of the first blogpost of each month in 2006. Until June 9th I had three blogs, so I have to pick the first sentence from the first post on each! Since then, this is the only one. Here are mine (I skipped quick shout-outs to carnivals and such):
January
I am obviously using the extended holidays to recharge my blogging batteries.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute which funds a number of researchers in the field, has made, a couple of years ago, an excellent website about circadian rhythms.
Look at these different views on the same incident (a student expelled from Le Moyne College in upstate NY for writing a paper endorsing corporal punishment)
February
Give up on working today…as there is just too much cool stuff to read!
Interesting, but not surprising, though the mechanism may be different in SAD and other disorders.
I will be hosting the sixth edition of the Teaching Carnival on Science And Politics (my ‘home’ blog) on February 15th, 2006.
March
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The very first circadian rhythm ever observed was a rhythm of opening and closing of leaves of a mimosa plant.
Rob the Dirty Liberal has some interesting and thought-provoking ideas about a college freshman science course – or how one can be designed: University Science Education: A New Approach.
April
I don’t know how much that will help in the future, but nobody beats John Edwards in Internet savvy.
This being the National Sleep Awareness Week and in the heels of the recent study on sleep of adolescents, it is not surprising that this issue is all over the media, including blogs, these days.
This being the National Sleep Awareness Week and on the heels of the recent study on sleep of adolescents, it is not surprising that this issue is all over the media, including blogs, these days.
(actually, the two posts are completely different except for the first sentence)
May
Videos from this conference can now be found here.
I wrote before about the effects of circadian time and/or body temperature on time perception.
This is the summary of the first part of the first lecture in Introduction to Life Science (this is a science requirement for non-science majors at an accelerated adult education program at a community college).
June
After enjoying Bryant Park for a while, taking pictures, and exchanging presents (actually, receiving presents, including chocolate bananas) it was time to move on.
Interesting idea, via Sleep Disorders blog: a pre-recorded morning talk-show puts you to sleep because it is a distraction from Real Life worries that may otherwise keep you awake at night, yet no need to worry that you’ll miss something interesting.
Biology is concerned with answering two Big Questions: how to explain the adaptation of organisms to their environments and how to explain the diversity of life on Earth.
OK, let’s try to figure out this Movable Type thingie.
July
Go here to see what the best strategy is for maximizing the impact.
August
A couple of days ago I took my son to see “Monster House”.
September
First seen on Thought From Kansas.
October
Wow, it’s been a while since I last hosted the Tar Heel Tavern.
November
Yikes! I hope nobody gave you this candy last night!
December
Genes may help predict infidelity, study finds: Could DNA tests tell you your risk of being cuckolded?
Hmmm, it seems I almost never start a month with a decent post! I’ll have to try better next year for the sake of this meme!

Can someone buy me this?

This is my favourite album of all times. The best holiday present I can get. It is not available on tape, CD or mp3 – only an LP. But I can find a way to make a copy somewhere around here.
Also, does anyone know if she has ever recorded anything else?

Three More Days

I can’t wait for Night at the Museum! What a perfect movie to take the kids to during the holidays. My son is quite hyped about it – he only nees to decide if he’ll go with me or ask a girl out.

Cartoon Guide to Scienceblogs

Next issue of the Seed Magazine will have an article about scienceblogs.com. You can see a composite cartoon of all of us (without, unfortunately, our most recent additions) here. We look funny, don’t we? Quiz: find Grrrl and Orac in the picture – how long did it take you? It took me forever!

Today is “Reveal Your Blog Crush Day”

December 15th. Officially. Fire away. Viaviavia (read thos “vias” for more information about what it all means).

Who? Me jealous? Why?

It came to me so naturally – no big thinking involved, no tweaking the results, this is who I am:
I'm Nicola Tesla! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!
Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

Six reindeer pulling a relativity cloud

There have been some explanations before about the ability of Santa Claus to deliver all the presents during a single night, but this explanation is new to me:
Santa Science:

“Based on his advanced knowledge of the theory of relativity, Santa recognizes that time can be stretched like a rubber band, that space can be squeezed like an orange and that light can be bent,” Silverberg says. “Relativity clouds are controllable domains – rips in time – that allow him months to deliver presents while only a few minutes pass on Earth. The presents are truly delivered in a wink of an eye.”

Hat-tip: Josh

Medicine of Harry Potter

A paper in CMAJ on the medical ethics of muggles just came out:
Duty of care to the undiagnosed patient: Ethical imperative, or just a load of Hogwarts?
Here is the abstract – the entire paper is freely available:

With the restoration of You-Know-Who to full corporeal form, the practice of the dark arts may lead to multitudes being charmed, befuddled and confounded. At present, muggle ethics dictate that aid may be rendered in a life-or limb-threatening situation, but the margins are blurred when neither is at stake. Muggle and wizard healers, fearful of being labelled ambulance chasers, may shy away from approaching those who remain blissfully unaware of their illnesses. We describe 4 case studies in which we intervened as muggle healers, to salutary effect. The afflicted were healed or helped, without bringing the weight of the Ministries of Magic or Magical Healing upon us. We advocate a spirit of cooperation between muggle and magical folk, mindful of the strengths that the healing arts from each community have to offer. As long as the intent is beneficent, healers or even the wizard or muggle on the street may intervene and render aid to the afflicted.

Hat-tip: Rivqa

The Verizon Saga Continues

The guy who prvided the initial audio file of his amazing conversations with Verizon reps has now set up a blog about it. You can read the transcript, check the comments, find new developments on the case, and discover new similar cases.
Verizon is in trouble – see just how many blogs are covering this – bad publicity. They better invest into some basic arithmetics classes for their employees pronto. That will cost them about 0.002 million dollars, …no, cents, …no, dollars! Oh, whatever, it’s just a matter of opinion anyway.

This is my next screensaver!

Thanks to The Science Pundit for alerting me to this amazing animation (now also for sale as screensaver):
Secret Worlds: The Universe Within:

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

Check it out. As Javier says: Exponential Zoom from Milky Way to Quark!

Word Of The Day

From Merriam-Webster:

Pecksniffian • \pek-SNIFF-ee-un\ • adjective
: unctuously hypocritical : sanctimonious
Example Sentence:
“His book suffers from excessively long harangues against Pecksniffian prigs and temperance types who, he claims, are still trying to ruin our fun.” (Mark D. Fefer, Seattle Weekly, January 22, 2003)
Did you know?
Seth Pecksniff, a character with a holier-than-thou attitude in Charles Dickens’s 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit, was no angel, though he certainly tried to pass himself off as one. Pecksniff liked to preach morality and brag about his own virtue, but in reality he was a deceptive rascal who would use any means to advance his own selfish interests. It didn’t take long for Pecksniff’s reputation for canting sanctimoniousness to leave its mark on English; “Pecksniffian” has been used as a synonym of “hypocritical” since 1849.

With so many examples in public life these days, particularly from the Religious Right and the GOP elected officials, we should be using this word more often.

Home Destruction by Wii

Wii Have A Problem

Great Country Song Lyrics – Weekend Edition

Drop Kick My Big Balls While She’s Gettin’ Nailed mixed by Jeff Hebert of A Nerd’s Country Journal.

Now, those are some molecules I can relate to!

Made With Molecules online store is expanding its offerings. Sure serotonin earrings are cool, but nothing beats the familiar and soothing effects of theobromine and caffeine. Check them out!
(Hat-tip: Vaughan

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

My son wants Wii for Hannukkah and he will get it. According to Jonah, it’s good for you in more ways than just training in spatial orientation. You get a physical workout and you get drawn deeper into the game which will, presumably, make violence, aggression, injuries and death more realistic and thus may have the opposite effect of cartoonish effects of older video games or even watching carnage on TV news. You may even start emphatizing and thinking about the meaning of life! Who knows – time will tell.
But, and I did not think of this, Wii may do something more. Brian Russell muses, in two posts, about another Wii potential – replacing a PC! It has an Internet connection and a browser and a bunch of other stuff that makes it a social networking tool. Will Wii-sphere be the next generation’s blogosphere?

The Dirty Thirty Meme

Who is going to blog serious stuff over the holidays? It’s time to eat and drink and be merry. So, a silly meme is in order. Seen on Cyberspace Rendezvous (and a couple of other science blogs) (under the fold):

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This one is for PZ

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(via)

Playfight

Marbles (left) encroaching on Biscuit’s territory:
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Where is Queen’s English?

What American accent do you have?

Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary” but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin?” or “Are you from Chicago?” Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.”

The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The West
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have?
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Although I live in the South, where every vowel is really three vowels strung together (e.g., “ham” is pronounced as “hayam”, and a “bug” is really “boooooog”), I still stick to the standard British English of the kind taught in schools around Europe. This quiz could not uncover this, of course, as it considers only American dialects (how about Aussies?).

If it quacks like a duck…it is in an echo-chamber!

Just in case you have, as a child, heard the myth that ducks’ quack does not produce an echo, and have never outgrew the myth (possibly by never even thinking about it ever since), a potential IgNobel winner for next year has been published and, yes, ducks’ quacks produce echoes. Shelley has the details of the experiments and the link to the sound-file of the quack and the echo. Ah, the power of the scientific method! Though alternative methods have been proposed:

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Music Selections: Americanitis

americanitis.jpgPolitically active and charged music, the “protest music” is live and well. Check out Will Kimbrough and his latest CD called Americanitis. He sang a couple of tunes live in teh studio of local NPR station and I really liked them.

Salvation Candy

Yikes! I hope nobody gave you this candy last night!
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Is that just sand inside? I’d like to see someone do a chemical analysis of “Jesus’ Blood”
From this child-terrorrizing site, via Mr.Sun.