Once this thing gets affordable it’s time to start lighting fireworks in one’s hand and not running away.

Quite interesting thing called “miracle fruit”. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article.

An attempt was made in the 1970s to commercialize the ability of the fruit to turn non-sweet foods into sweet foods without a calorific penalty, but ended in failure in controversial circumstances with accusations that the project was sabotaged and the research burgled by the [...]

Don’t throw that hedgehog at him, it’s endangered!

Tags: assault

I caught these on a Nature special about Death Valley. Heavy rocks that have been moving with no artificial intervention. Physicists and Geologists have their explanations but…

Tags: rock, magic

A Nazi orgy.

Tags: orgy

Yes it is bad to laugh about child abductions. No it is not bad to laugh about Precious Diamond Spencer.
update: Precious Diamond Spencer has been found. Her brother Buffalo China Spencer was relieved.

Sweet sweet Professor Bros.

Sydney Pollack has passed. This obituary doesn’t list my favorite role of his in Husbands and Wives. The scene in which he realizes his young rebound girl is a fool is beautiful.

Tags: death

She made it! The Phoenix has landed. And now we wait for the damage report.

Tags: mars, phoenix

I have had this on my phone calendar and have been very excited about it. I still remember back when the rover crashed because the fools didn’t convert from feet to meters. Classy.
Seven minutes is all it takes for a spacecraft traveling nearly 13,000 mph to hit the Martian atmosphere, slam on the brakes and [...]