Nightswimming

You too can join Timothy Leary!

• Still need that weird gift for the offbeat person in your life? How about a burial in space?
  
• Turning your engine inside out could save your car up to 60% in gas.
  

Rod Sirling Tribute

This week, PBS is running a documentary about the creator of The Twilight Zone. (Information here.) Since its PBS, you need to check your local listing for day and time, although I gather it is showing tonight on most stations.

P.S. - Snow Day in Portland!

Photoshop Funnies

• Which came first, the chicken or the Christmas light?
  
• I bet nobody in your neigborhood had a Christmas light display as big as this
  
• Yahoo! Italy
  
• Those ancient Egyptian's were amazing. They built pyramids, developed medicine, and even had Wheel of Fortune
  
• Montgomery Burns. Bill Gates. Same thing.
  
• You can buy Peanuts Uno and comic strip monopoly, but why not Woodstock Scrabble?
  
• Some Schroedinger's cat joke that I don't have a witty introduction for.
  

More Link O Rama Goodness

• If you like fishies, and you know you do, you will want to see this fabulous collection of hundreds of underwater pictures. Hey! Look! I found Nemo!.
  
• Here is an interesting book on how to hack an Xbox. I think the comment from Slashdot at the end of the page is entertaining as well.
  
• Test your body's reaction time with the sloBRAIN test
  
• Shy people are more vulnerable to disease than outgoing people.
  

Link O Rama

• Beef: it's what makes dinner more expensive. A USA Today report shows that the prices of groceries went up about 3% this year and will go up another 3% next year. Today's printed copy of the paper (but not posted online) breaks down the costs by item and shows that the price of meat and eggs has increased a whopping 16.6% this year.
  
• Just in case you are curious to know exactly who can afford those kind of price increases, CBS tells us what the top 10 overpaid jobs in America are.
  
• If you think that traffic laws are messy, you should see what happens when you break the second law of thermodynamics.
  
• Just in case you've forgotten what you learned in U.S. history, this animated GIF gives a 30 second rundown of how our nation's land was once divided.
  
• Some cool pictures from some fancy new telescope we launched into space.
  
• Also check out the Top Ten Astronomy images of 2003
  

Happy Christmas Everybody

Sorry about the lack of updates. Been busy with Christmas and all. I hope your holidays are going well. I'll have more blogging goodness for you over the weekend.

Tourist Trap For Sale!

• Tortilla Flats, AZ is for sale. (I've been there, too!)
  
• Scientists have discovered that human brian views our shadows as an extension of our body. Explination here.
  
• The AI used to program CGI soldiers in the Lord of the Rings movies was so smart, they couldn't keep thier soldiers from fleeing battle. Run Away! Run Away!
  

Link O Rama

• You know those silly little stereogram pictures? (Oh look, a boat!). This one supposedly works in 3D, although I can't cross my eyes the right way to make it work.
  
• Its the International Snow Sculpture Championship
  
• Its a boat. No, wait, its a Ferrari! No, wait., Its BOTH! Check out the wooden ferrari. The guy who built it also runs a pretty cool blog called Alf For President
  

Keiko is Dead :-(

Keiko, the killer whale, died yesterday of pneumonia. Most people remember Keiko from the movie Free Willie, but he was a bit more of a celebrity here in Oregon as he spent a couple of years living at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. (I went to see him about a month before they moved him to Norway.)

Also, since I posted an article about the greenhouse effect a few days ago, it would also be a good idea to read the facts about the phenomenon on The Bad Greenhouse page. Lots of other good reading can be found at the general Bad Science page.

Davy is a Bunny Hug!

• Quizilla asks the question, What Drink Are You?. (If anybody can tell me what a Bunny Hug actually is, that would be great.)
  
• Mankind may have triggered the greenhouse effect 8000 years ago
  
• Cerritos California may become the first city to offer publicly accessible wi-fi internet access
  
• What level of hell are you going to? (I know this is a repeat for some of you, but some people at my new workplace haven't seen it.)
  

Random Links

• Build your own minuet! Mozart wrote a game whereby using die rolls to cut and paste musical measures, you could create your own minute. This site does all the work for you.
  
• Ever wanted to see New York rendered in Lego? Welcome to The Brick Apple
  
• Do you feel stressed over the holiday season? So does your dog.
  

Going Underground - In Real Life

Brett's buddy Aaron found an interesting article about all the things that go on under Moscow, like people who actually live underground and the search for Ivan the Terrible's lost library. Pretty weird stuff, but definintely an interesting read.

Recycled Fark

• Scientific American's Top 25 Tech Gifts for Christmas.
  
• Somebody's collection of the best photos of the year
  
• A 360 degree panoramic view of Mount Everest (requires Quicktime)
  

I'm this many

This is a little something I thought my bestest friend Davy would get a kick out of. This article over at Ars Technica explains that a new prime number has been found, 2^20996011-1. It's a big number, it seems, weighing in at 6,632,430 digits long. Even I could appriciate that.

Worlds Longest Slinky

This is quite possibly The Worlds Longest Slinky measuring in at 71 feet.

1800 year old dice

Apparently the Romans used twenty sided dice long before Gary Gygax did.

REM Videos

Ifilm.com is having an REM Video Showcase to celebrate the recently released Greatest Hits album. (The Nightswimming video is on page 2.)

More Microsoft Taking-overness

We already know that Microsoft wants to take over every PC in the world. Now they want to take over your car too. Of course, the fact that Mitsubishi already uses their software might explain why the auto-transmission my Lancer never knows when to change gears.