One more thing I hadn’t thought I needed to be worried about.
(with a tip of the hat to our cousins at Bad Astronomy Blog)
Tags: hadron, abuse, subatomic, particle, CERN

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It was only a matter of time before someone did this…

(with a tip of the toque to Ed at Tomato)
Tags: restaurant, kitchen, chef, bad+language, do+you+eat+with+that+mouth+too, backlash, inevitable

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Yes, you too can use that wonderful built-in motion sensor to pour virtual beer.
….Ooooooookay.
Meanwhile, I truly feel there might be better things to run on an iPhone or iPod Touch. 
 
Tags: iPhone, useless, app, waste+of+electrons

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In today’s xkcd: whoops.
(See, this is what happens when you get careless about translation issues.)
Tags: religion, trinity, accident, ghosts, buster

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Tink.

Tags: kitten, video, adorable, too+cute+to+live, kitty, cat, YouTube, video, viral

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And how not, when he writes stuff like this?
Moviegoers who knowingly buy a ticket for “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” are going to get exactly what they expect: There is a mummy, a tomb, a dragon and an emperor. And the movie about them is all that it could be. If you think […]

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PASADENA, Calif.–Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. A group of 16 astronomers, led by Kartik Sheth of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, has found that bars tripled in number over the past seven billion years…

So what’s the cause? Gentrification, or looser liquor licensing […]

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So I’m sitting here wrapping up book packages and getting caught up on the email, and were_gopher sends me this link. (Thanks Om!) And now my birthday is complete before it’s barely started.
 
The full story is here. Go, read, be happy. (The piccie also appears in the large version here, at […]

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Thanks for your concern, everybody. I’m a little better. Won’t be able to get the ultrasound till next week, though. (mutter) I will be sorting out those last book requests today and tomorrow, though, so if you haven’t heard from me, you will shortly.
Meanwhile, though, there’s this to laugh about.
LOLTrek (snort) Click on it for […]

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“My name is Turambar,” cried Turin, “and Evil have been all my ways.”
“And my name is Niniel,” wept Nienor as they fell into each other’s arms and she became heavy with child. And lo, when Glaurung told her she had shagged her brother and Turin had been slain on his quest to rescue Húrin, […]

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Over at Scientific American:
Kryptonite Discovered; Adamantium Remains Elusive
No, really!
Technorati Tags: kryptonite, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide

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“Not bovvered” in Downing Street
(US readers: for background that will help you understand / get the joke in the above, first check this page and the video on it)
Technorati Tags: Downing Street, Comic Relief, Tony Blair

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