Kittens – Pictures
Finally got our pictures online of the kittens, check them out here. My favorites are these two of Luna and Artemis
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Kittens
The kittens are really sweet, but Luna has discovered that she can jump pretty high, just about to the same height as the birds cages.. so needless to say she got in trouble last night. She’s funny though, after she gets in trouble, she hides for a few hours, then comes and sulks on your lap, she’ll be like it for a few days, at home this morning she was curled up on my lap sleeping while I was typing. Normally she’d be chasing my fingers, or chasing the pointer on the screen, but she wanted to make it up to me, so she gave me cuddles/love.
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Most Wanted Paintings
The Most (and Least) Wanted Paintings. Design by committee: Artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid used a professional market research group to survey aesthetic preferences and art tastes in 14 countries. The results are the theoretically most desired paintings for each nation.
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Tsunami photo’s
GlobalSecurity.org has the tsunami on satellite imagery and on FlickR.com people have started publishing photo’s of missing persons (also with rss). Breathtaking….
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No, Paul. Eating an artificial fire log is stupid.
The Great Eastern ran on CBC Radio from ’94 until ’99. Sublimely funny, the show lives on with complete episode archives, select clips and some detailed backstory. I haven’t heard anything as well written in a long, long time. Subtle satire at its best.
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War in Korea
North Korea Issues Wartime Guidelines SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea has ordered its citizens to be ready for a protracted war against the United States, issuing guidelines on evacuating to underground bunkers with weapons, food and portraits of leader Kim Jong Il.
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Eye of the Tiger
Eye of the Tiger [yeah, I know, its stupid, but it was forced upon me, so enjoy]
Oh, and I can write your name in the snow, can you?
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Army of Geeks
Most real geeks arent just interested in computers and such, we really like cool explosions and insanely cool home made tanks.
Generally it’s adviseable to not try those things at home kinds, unless you’re me 🙂
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Presidential Inaugural Balls: $40 million of fun
Reason’s Hit and Run excerpts a hilarious New York Times interview with Jeanne L. Phillips, chair of the Presidential Inaugural Committee:
Q: I hear one of the balls will be reserved for troops who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
A: Yes, the Commander-in-Chief Ball. That is new. It will be about 2,000 servicemen and their guests. And that should be a really fun event for them.
Q: As an alternative way of honoring them, did you or the president ever discuss canceling the nine balls and using the $40 million inaugural budget to purchase better equipment for the troops?
A: I think we felt like we would have a traditional set of events and we would focus on honoring the people who are serving our country right now — not just the people in the armed forces, but also the community volunteers, the firemen, the policemen, the teachers, the people who serve at, you know, the — well, it’s called the StewPot in Dallas, people who work with the homeless.
Q: How do any of them benefit from the inaugural balls?
A: I’m not sure that they do benefit from them.
Q: Then how, exactly, are you honoring them?
A: Honoring service is what our theme is about.
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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks
O’Reilly Media has just published Home Hacking Projects for Geeks, featuring 13 fun home automation projects for your house. Very cool illustrations and good reading about the projects the authors came up with.
The thirteen projects in “Home Hacking Projects for Geeks” are divided into three categories: Home Automation, Home Entertainment Systems, and Security. The book includes projects such as:
-Remotely Monitor Your Pet
-Make Your House Talk
-Remotely Control Your Computer’s MP3 player
-Create Time-Shifted FM Radio
-Watch Your House Across the Network
-Build a Home Security System
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Why I play GTA:SA
You may say its violent, its racial, and its evil, and you’d be right. But when it comes to protecting my home, nothing works like Grand Theft Auto. Read more about it here, and here.
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Give a hoot, use your computer!
The World Community Grid is a project to use spare CPU cycles to help the world. The Grid is Windows only, but Folding@Home is a cross-platform way to spend your extra CPU cycles, in an effortless (for you) quest to cure disease. And of course there’s the original donated cycle project, which I’m a part of, SETI@home.
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Duct tape/Deep Space/Gravity=Fun
“Doom Funnel Chasers” asks you to launch projectiles through space, plugging the funnels o’ doom. Each attempt leaves its own trail, producing a fun Spirograph-ic effect.
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Suprnova.org is back… with a vengeance?!
It was just last week when suprnova.org, the most popular site online for finding BitTorrent downloads, shut down their site. The MPAA and RIAA crowed, but it appears the celebration was a tad premature.
Suprnova’s new site mentions a special announcement today at 5 PM AST on NovaStream.org radio. Rumors suggest that it will introduce Exeem, a decentralized, BitTorrent-driven software client that turns every user into a tracker, removing the requirement for a centralized site such as suprnova, while providing users with easy searchability, the swarming powers of BitTorrent, and a network that is far harder to shut down.
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Earth is spinning faster as a result of quake
The massive undersea earthquake that caused the tsunami gave a boost to our planet’s spin. As a result, days will be a fraction of a second shorter from now on.
Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth’s center during the quake on Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or 3 millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.
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Next Harry Potter on July 16
The Leaky Cauldron has info on J. K. Rowling’s announcement that the sixth Harry Potter book has been completed. Publication date to be announced within 24 hours. Very exciting for some of us named Jenn.
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8 ball, corner pocket
Is the Apocalypse set for April 13th, 2029? Good news, everyone! A collossal asteroid, poetically named 2004 MN4, is calculated to pass pretty damn close to the Earth on that date. How close? Well, the folks at NASA have given it an unprecedented Torino Impact Hazard rating of 4, with chances of impact currently at around 1 in 63, although this will no doubt change as calculations are made.
Happy Holidays!
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I’m going to be very hard to find for the next few weeks..
Just got my Christmas presents 🙂 yay ! the ps2 + gta:sa will get a -lot- of use. The Jennifer rox.
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Haughy-lujah!
Santa Santa Santa Santa It’s Friday, it’s Flash, it’s Christmas Eve, so….here you go Jenn.
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World’s only revolving building
To hell with revolving rooftop restaurants, I want to live in Suite Vollard, an entire apartment building whose eleven circular units can each revolve 360 degrees. (Unfortunately for me, it’s in Brazil.) More photos are here.
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Starbucks email prank
Check out what happens when a new Starbucks corporate office employee gets into a bizarre email exchange with a mullet headed prankster pretending to be the CEO / president.
I know this may seem petty, but Ms. Crisholm should have told you how we feel about goatees or facial hair in our corporate offices. While I realize they may be considered stylish and acceptable in our Starbucks outlets, we ask that men refrain from wearing them in our corporate offices as we are trying to uphold a certain image. That includes earrings and other piercings on men, which I do not tolerate at all. Unfortunately, there’s little we can do about the appearance of our counter people no matter how much we try. I certainly wish this weren’t the case, because most of them have absolutely no loyalty to our brand, and they have done nothing but tarnish our image. I hope you understand our position. Please have it removed by Monday.
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You spin me right round baby, right round…
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express site has this neat little flash globe lets you rotate the planet yourself and select various viewpoints for more detailed pictures of the surface. Some of the pictures are stunning, others just don’t look real.
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Fun With Pseudofluids, Thixotropy, and Faraday waves
You probably knew that Silly Putty is a non-Newtonian fluid, and that Faraday waves make cornstarch and water do creepy things, but did you know that your washing machine probably has magnetorheological fluid in it? Yes indeed, there are fun and interesting applications for ferrofluids.
RobDurdle.com 
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