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http://www.astrosurf.com/legault/iss_shuttle.jpg

911 Conspiracy Wars: Nutters at Ground Zero I just saw it. Loved it. Now, if I were a pig I'd ask you to tell me more about losing your virginity. :D Well, actually, I am a pig but I don't want to appear too creepy so I'll skip that. Hey, good job, it was damn funny and you did a great job...

I don't know if anyone else has seen this yet. It's the shuttle and the ISS silhouetted against the sun. Steven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdvgdvT8EEM&mode=related&search= The sound is rather poor on this rip, but it's the only one I've found. Very nifty video.

Science-fiction coming to real-life... again. :)

Actually, he wasn't my patron, so I can talk about him. S.T. Joshi was in my library today and I got to chat with him. He was charmed by the fact that I am a card carrying skeptic and we exchanged comments about Randi, Prometheus Books and stuff. Nice guy.

Why is it that when I breathe air out through a wide open mouth, that air is warm? And when I blow air out through pursed lips, that air is cool?

The link to the superb Evolution Slider mentioned in this post is now broken. After a quick search, I found the source to be John Kyrk’s homepage, Cell Biology Animation, where there appears to be many other cool animations. I haven't checked them all out yet, but hope you enjoy & find good uses.

Thanks to Charlie in Dayton for this link. Hope you don't have anything important to do for the next twelve minutes or so. http://www.zeronews-fr.com/flash/the-incredible-machine.php

Well, I just realized, through an accidental miss on copy paste, that firefox does a "I'm feeling lucky" google search on terms you enter in the address bar if they don't match an internet address (after doing a dictionary.com search, apparently). That means if you type "Alkatran" into the...

Screwing around with my computer is my hobby. I've: Tried firefox beta and a ton of extensions Tinkered with 4 firewalls that I don't need because I'm behind a router Google Earth Tried out a buch of tweaks (good and bad) for xp Reinstaled windows Installed Linux dual boot and screwed up my MBR...

http://www.bushspeech.org/

I was wondering has anyone read this, and does it offer any insights into evolution as Randi is suggestting. I thought that because this is not a closed system, then the 2nd law didn't realy apply, although this statement may not necessarily have anything to do with the 2nd law. Part of the...

telescope to microscope http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

I'm lucky enough to have had some truly amazing teachers during my time in public schools. I was just thinking back on it, and I thought it would be neat to have a thread for people to share some of their good school experiences. Far and away the best teacher I had was Thomas Lenkart here in...

I have found this tool particularly useful http://desktop.google.com/

This is interesting. Dolphins Protect New Zealand Swimmers from Shark Dolphins can see visually and with their sonar that humans are not dolphins, yet these wild dolphins protected the swimmers anyways. That's pretty neat stuff.

God bless, preserve and keep the French. This story made my day. Quaint? Oui. Desperate? Oh, Oui. Pathetic? Mais Oui. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=JTU42WSUFGWWDQFIQMGSM54AVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2004/10/25/wfren25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/25/ixworld.html

http://lvo.wr.usgs.gov/Current_Conditions.html I wonder what some others will have to say here.

http://www.apatheticagnostic.com http://nescience.org/:D

This is my first article for Consumed Magazine, a DIY e-zine that I am a staff writer for. It is, unsurprisingly, about all the stuff that I get pissed off about: alternative medicine, cultural relativism and the debasement of science. There's probably not much new there, but I had fun writing...

I saw a bit of this alternative science show last night on the tele. I don't know if it was a repeat, so some might have heard this before. There were some cool experiments showing various things. The two best ones were wlaking on custard and blowing up a caravan. The first one was about...

When is the next ice age scheduled for? This global warming business had better not interfere with the natural cycle of naturally cool ice age fun. ;)

Just saw William Gibson a couple of weeks ago and got my copies of Pattern Recognition, Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Idoru (my only 1st editions by him) signed. It was one of the best book signings I have been to. He is very smart and personable but in a cool, detached sort of way. I have seen...

Okay, so, erm, I was cleaning out my part of the fridge. I threw out some carrots with thick fuzzy blue mould on their tips, a (ahem) empty tomato container with white dots of mould, tiny as pencil tips, scattered throughout the surface, and an old mug of (now dried) tea, with brown mold bits...

While I was writing a post in the "Literature and da Arts" forum here, I came across something that's pretty cool. Apparently some painters are now protecting their work from forgers by having some of their DNA added to their paint which is then used to mark a portion of their painting. The...

I saw this utility recommended in one of Fred Langa's recent newsletters. I find several of its features very handy. Meazure™ 2.0 From the website:

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_concrete_010601.html

http://digicc.com/fido/

Not really sure what forum this belongs in, but: Of course, we can expect protests. Pretty cool though! I guess you'd save money on your tank lighting, if nothing else. What I want, though, is a glow in the dark cat. I keep tripping over mine when I get up in the night. ;)