Skyehaven’s Cool Thing of the Day

If you needed more evidence that Micro$oft is evil, just have a gander at this. It was made using Micro$soft’$ latest excellent excrement software, Songsmith.

Oh, and by all means, let’s not leave out the White Wedding Ho-Down

When I’m done laughing, I think I’ll be writing a letter of protest. Someone tell me who to send it to.

The universe is a very large place. Here’s a website that takes you on a semi-guided tour.

Don’t put off til tomorrow what you can do today

What could be more relaxing than wiling away the time building a model ship.  How about taking it down the local pond and sailing it around with a dozen of your closest friends?

Just watch out for these people…

The MWCI is a model warship combat club. They build 1/144th scale replicas of warships, load them full of bb’s and then zip around ponds shooting at each other. They game in shallow ponds so that the ships can be retrieved, patched up, and sent back to the battle.

Sound fun? Events are held year round all over the United States. There are other model warship combat clubs, but I haven’t found anything outside of North America. Canadians might be in luck, although websites for their activities are slim.

update: The Australians are in on it, too.

Brian Koehler has a great page on the hobby, including video from past events and pictures of ship building.

(P.S. Thanks to Kevin Inscoe for reminding me about this. We went to an event years ago but lost track of the local club. It’s a great way to spend an afternoon with the family.)

Science at work, obviously. Nottingham University has done us the service of creating The Periodic Table of Videos,  where you watch the building blocks of our universe go boom.

Take potassium, for example…

A couple of weeks ago, it was cold in Alaska. No, I mean cold . Really, really effing COLD.

The cool thing about this isn’t the fact that a caribou froze standing up. It’s the comments, which range from “he’ll thaw out and be ok” to Monty Python jokes. It’s nice to see that some people still enjoy the classics.

It’s pretty AND it sounds good. What more can you ask for?

And now, I’m testing the rss feeds, which may or may not be working correctly.

People do this for fun?

I’m an avowed bibliophile. My proudest moment was when I purchased massive bookshelves and actually had enough shelving room in my house to hold all my books. So, on one hand, I’m finding it a little painful and somewhat gory to look at book art , but it’s so damn cool that I can’t stop looking at it.