Recently, I have become somewhat addicted to several series of science videos on the internet. I first found Sixty Symbols, which has videos about topics in physics and astronomy, using the premise that each video is about a particular symbol that scientists in those fields use.

From there, I found Periodic Videos (chemisty, including one video ( Read more... )

Since I was late to the party over on isiscaughey's journal, here is my own movie quote meme offering.

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess the title (bonus points if you can name the character!).
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. No Googling/using IMDb ( Read more... )

I give you the “Make me a sandwich” Makefile, inspired by this classic xkcd strip.

The APOD and Sinfest RSS feeds are back up on my website, and they should update daily at 1am. And, incidentally, they hosted on a new domain: echodin.net. Yes, after many years of saying I would, I have finally sprung for a domain name and virtual server hosting.

In the interest in doing my bit to have cool URIs that don't change*, I am also ( Read more... )

For those of you who are interested in fairy tales and fairy tale retellings (I'm looking at you, isiscaughey and sabine42), I highly recommend “ The Wolf and the Woodsman” by Ursula Vernon.

For me, this is way up there with the Red Riding Hood retelling (and subversion) in Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad. It's only part one right now, and I can't wait for the ( Read more... )

Today's xkcd is scary because it's true. Especially the alt text:
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".

It's true*. I tried it out on a bunch of topics, from snails to velcro to Lady Gaga, and they all ended ( Read more... )

This year, once again, I was part of the Cavegirl Productions team for the 48 Hour Film Project. This year, we got comedy as our genre, and we ended up with a film about someone who teaches people how not to be serial killers.

I was again part of the crew, but this time I also have a brief onscreen appearance as a jogger who (presumably) gets ( Read more... )

This is now the background wallpaper on my laptop:


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For those of you who missed it the first time around (or those of you who would like to see it again), “4,3,2,1” (by the the lovely and talented wowbagger) will be performed as part of the Laurel Mill Playhouse 2010 One Act Festival at the Laurel Mill Playhouse next weekend, September 10-12. Performances are at 8pm Friday and Saturday, and 2pm Sunday. ( Read more... )

There are two probable reasons for the following digression: a) it's 2am, and b) I am a huge web dork.

One amorous night...

> POST /eve > Content-Type: application/sperm+dna < 202 Accepted
A few months later...

> GET /baby < 404 Not Found
A few months after that (9 in total, to be exact)...

> GET /baby < 200 OK < Content-Type: application/ ( Read more... )