I think I've got the solution to people wandering around singing hymns in public: A taste of their own medicine. :)

One of the things that I've noticed, is that while the internet has made getting a lot of things free, keeping those things is still costly in terms of time, either up front or in batches ( Read more... )

First presentation went OK. Now all I have to do is insert another four or five slides... Oh, and actually get some results.

But I like doing it sometimes, anyways. I'm in 'The best Coffeehouse in Story County' 2002-2009, of all places. ( Read more... )

Less amazed to find out that the current #1 (On the chart for the last 227 weeks!) was the 'Mission impossible theme'.

The current list is avaialable at Billboard.com - apparently derived from Nielson data, that Neilson, in turn, collects from the celphone providers ( Read more... )

I was reading about Colony Collapse Disorder (In particular, the CCD report - Which is a really great piece of work, but long. - and looked up the Varroa mite, to find out that one of the ways they suggest combating the mites is by sprinkling the bees with powdered sugar.

The idea of bees covered in powdered sugar is just too amusing not to share.

I currently have up in tabs:

• A reading from the Crowdsource tarot
• An eBay auction for a celphone.
• An article on the requirements for proteins to hinge.
• The website of a teacher from a local community college that I met during the seminar
• The wikipedia page for my birthday
• The Wikipedia page for 'Earth First!',
• A LJ entry page.

You?

I've got a great idea! Let's melt holes in the earth's crust with radioactive spheres just to see what happens! I'm sure it won't piss the mole people off at all.

Ahhh, The soviets It's amazing what scientists can accomplish when they're not being held back by, well, anything?

( David Byrne's 'Self-made man' )

• Amusing: Finding out that somebody sells a kit to build an AK-47
• Interesting: Finding out that there's a whole community of hobbyists building them
  • Amusing: realizing that the stocks and non-mechanical parts are referred to as 'furniture'.
• Disturbing: Realizing that some of the 'hobbyists' are building more than one.
• Really disturbing: Going through a ( Read more... )