Shark attack cupcakes
Moogie made these ass-kicking shark-attack cupcakes (complete with body parts!) for a Shark Art Contest. First prize!
Shark Attack Cupcakes
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Michael Moores latest film free online
Michael Moore’s newest movie Slacker Uprising is available for free download, the “first major major film to be released in such a way,” according to the Associated Press.
“This film, really isn’t for anybody other than the choir,” said Moore.
“But that’s because I believe the choir needs a song to sing every now
and then.”
Caveat:
- It is probably not the first film to do this, but certainly one of the first major films (if it is considered major or not *shrug*).
- Free only for US and Canadians for some reason, but it might work anyway as it only asks to confirm your location.
- There is also online viewing on the Lycos Cinema platform and looks like YouTube has 10 min chunks.
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Free Stargate Worlds Beta
Hey Kids,
Just got my invite for the Stargate Worlds Beta, but sadly the servers are only up on Wednesdays at 4:30 PM PST, when I’m at work, to ensure my continued participation in the beta process, I need to play during those times, if you’re available for an hour or so on Wends, please, drop me a line by commenting below.
-RobDurdle.com
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“Women hold up half the sky”–Chinese proverb
the director of the Harvard College Observatory, became so impatient
with a male lab assistant’s work that he famously declared his maid
could do a better job. Rather than take offense, his 24-year-old maid, Williamina Fleming,
instead took him up on the offer. She ended up working at the
Observatory for the next 30 years, supervising the tedious work of
cataloging photographic plates, but also discovering variable stars and
novae, helping to develop a classification system–and, perhaps even more importantly, hiring nearly 40 female assistants, many of whom went on to have distinguished scientific careers.
These “computers,” as they were called, were a bargain for Pickering:
at first the women worked for free; after a number of years he rewarded
them with a salary–about 30 cents an hour, roughly half of that of the
men who did the same work. As he wrote
in his 1898 annual report, the women computers were “Capable of doing
as much good routine work as astronomers who would receive larger
salaries. Three or four times as many assistants can thus be employed.”
(As a side note, the US Naval Observatory also employed female
— and male — computers around the turn of the century. In 1906, the
computers were paid equally, $1200 a year for both men and women. But
only men had the opportunity for advancement, as, among other things,
the most prestigious jobs at the USNO required a military commission,
which wasn’t available to women.)
Thanks to Pickering and his maid, women were able to make an indelible
contribution to science. The most notable astronomers to come from his
lab were Antonia Maury, Annie Jump Cannon, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt.
Their discoveries and innovation helped usher in an age of science and
inquiry in astronomy, and helped pave the way for women in the field.
Noted a student of the eminent astronomer Vera Rubin
(who herself got her doctorate in astronomy at Georgetown University in
1954 by taking night classes while her husband waited for her in the
car): “American astronomy became preeminent because of two discoveries: Hale discovered money and Pickering discovered women.”
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So what happened?
Jack Nicholson, circa 1978, showing off his hydrogen powered
car. The accents of the broadcasters, in case you’re wondering, are
east coast Canadian, possibly Newfoundland.
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Lanier Phillips, survivor
It sounds like a bad Newfie joke: the Newfoundlanders who had never seen a black person before and tried to scrub the colour off his skin. But the story is real: in 1942, Lanier Phillips was the only black survivor of the wreck of the USS Truxton off the coast of Newfoundland.
Like the white survivors, he was half-dead and covered in oil when he
arrived on shore, and the women nursing the survivors were puzzled when
they could not clean the black colour off his skin. What happened next
affected Phillips’ self-perception and prompted him to push for equal
treatment in the US Navy. He went on to become the first African American US SONAR technician, and continues today, at the age of 84, to speak across the US about his experience with the people of St. Lawrence.
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eh?
Woman develops spontaneous Newfie accent after suffering a stroke. I’m not making this up.
Foreign accent syndrome is obviously very intriguing from a medical standpoint, and strokes are usually no laughing matter. But the particular circumstances of this case are…well…just begging to be made light of.
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Vote in my space.
Newfoundland’s Progressive Conservative Premier registered his Anything But Conservative campaign today with Elections Canada. The same agency also deemed that the online vote swap on Facebook is in fact legal. They’re hiring.
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PMSbuddy
PMSbuddy.com is a free service
created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your
wife, girlfriend, mother[!], sister, daughter, or any other women in
your life are closing in on “that time of the month” – when things can
get intense for what may seem to be no reason at all.
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Ghetto Big Mac
DallasPenn.com and OhWord.com bring you an instructional video on how to make your own Big Mac for a fraction of the price! It’s time to remix the dollar menu!
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The origin of the anus
Getting to the bottom of evolution: Genetic study investigates the origin of the anus.
Just for your Paul!
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The Who we never knew
The Russell T. Davis papers – As he prepares to leave the role of Doctor Who show runner he’s releasing a book of email exchanges with Doctor Who Magazine writer Benjamin Cook about his time on the longstanding British SF series, revealing the younger face of Who he’s like to see, and plans for a Doctor Who/Harry Potter crossover which never materialized.
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Script-Doctorin’ the TARDIS
As of 2010 Steven Moffat will be replacing Russell T. Davies as lead writer and executive producer of Doctor Who. In 2005 Davies revived the series, which had been dormant (bar the odd US co-production or audiodrama) since 1989, for BBC Wales. It won awards and was successful enough to spawn the spin-offs Sarah Jane Adventures and the popular-in-America Torchwood. He is replaced by Moffat, one of the regular writers on the show, whose highly acclaimed episodes have won a number of awards and nominations.
“I applied before but I got knocked back ‘cos the BBC wanted someone
else. Also I was seven. Anyway, I’m glad the BBC has finally seen the
light and it’s a huge honour to be following Russell into the best –
and the toughest – job in television. I say toughest ‘cos Russell’s at
my window right now, pointing and laughing.”
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Mosaic
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RobDurdle.com, AllJenn.com, and the kids
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A clear message
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From my friends at LeastICoulddo.com. Love it.
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World’s Greatest Cupcake Maker
My woman is now (officially) the “World’s Greatest Cupcake Maker”.
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Strange fences
The above fence sculpture comes from Dark Roasted Blend’s picks of
“Some of the World’s Strangest Fences.” Also included, a very long
fence decorated with bras in New Zealand, a fence outfitted with a
domed dog window, and many other oddities. Strange fences.
RobDurdle.com 
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