How to manage geeks (and in my experience editors as well. In fact, I think most people.) [link]
How bodies are disposed of in Tibet. Kinda nasty. Really. [link]
An Irish ad supporting gay marriage. Whose permission does anyone need to get married?
Article from one of Bush's speech writers. [link]
Peasant Quest - I just introduced Yummy to Trogdor. So I also had to show her "Peasant Quest", the Trogdor game based on classic Sierra adventures like Kings Quest and whatnot. [link]
Lego wall sealant. [link]
The Japanese are coming for us all. [link]
A kinda awesome table. [link]
In the 60's an experiment was done where kids were left alone with a marshmallow. If they kept it for 15 minutes they'd get another. Later in life the ones who held out did better in general than those who didn't.
An article about it. [link]
A video of a reproduction of it.
Chemistry lab blew up. Here's the story. [link]
Selections from the steampunk musical "The Clockwork Quartet". [link]
Terrorist fart joke. [link]
10 easy science questions and how you stack up against most people. Of course, I scored a perfect 100%. [link]
I succumb to a meme. [link]
I've seen this guy's camper bike before, but I hadn't seen what he'd done with the inside. [link]
When you die you can be made into pencils. This way your spouse can keep licking and nibbling you forever. [link]
This video is a test of a rocket designed to be able to launch, hover, move about, land vertically, and then be reused again shortly thereafter. This means that Armadillo Aerospace has passed the first level of the competition to design a new lunar lander for NASA. [link]
The Metronomicon - a collection of nightmare scenes from the Russian subway system. And Yummy won't believe me when I talk about the tunnel dragons in the DC subway. [link]
The history of science fiction getting it right. [link]
Rowan Atkinson recreates his driving from a car roof scene in real life. [link]
Read the text scroll.
We all float down here - people living in the Las Vegas flood tunnels. [link]
From time to time I see something awesome in science fiction that soon gets leapfrogged in the real world. In this case we seem to be bypassing Geordi's VISOR from Star Trek and getting something closer to G'Kar's replacement eye from late in Babylon 5. [link]
Carl Sagan's latest song. [link]
And finally, I've been avoiding videos refuting various religions for awhile, but this video does a good job of explaining why atheists deny what people of any faith see as perfectly reasonable arguments.
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When you die, you can also have your carbon made into diamonds. Then when you give your fiancee a ring and tell her, "it's been passed down from my grandmother," it could have a whole new meaning.
http://www.lifegem.com/
And I got all questions correct! (It was really easy.)
My plan is to be cremated, have the ash mixed with cement, and use that to make an awesome tombstone.
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