Sep

30

Darth Vader on the harmonica

September 30, 2007 | 4 Comments | Email | Print
Filed under: Film, Humor

Link to the video.
- Dave

Sep

29

Outsourcing child care to India

September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Film, Humor

From our friends at the Onion Network News:

I had to eat my own fingers.

Sep

27

Hand soap

September 27, 2007 | 2 Comments | Email | Print
Filed under: Weird

You can freak out your dinner guests by using this “hand soap” in your guest bathroom.  Watch them pack their bags when they see these tiny baby-hand bars of soap.
Link (from BoingBoing)
Creepy?
-Dave

Sep

26

WWHD?

September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Humor

What would Homer do?
He’d put one of these Jebus badges on his car, of course.
-Dave

Sep

26

Two great tastes

September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Photography, Food & Drink

It seemed like a good idea at the time.   Jesus, what was I thinking?
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Now playing: Mr. Bungle - Sweet Charity
via FoxyTunes

Sep

25

Amazon sells DRM-free music downloads

September 25, 2007 | 1 Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Music, Shopping

So iTunes is about to get a whooping if they don’t do something about their DRM.  Amazon is creeping up behind them with a sack full of nickels.
iTunes just became my second digital music store of choice.  Same price, no DRM.  Amazon, you win.
Amazon’s MP3 service.
-Dave

Sep

25

Naked singularity sexier than black hole

September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Science

From Wired
…a team of Duke University and Cambridge researchers has now outlined a new twist on the theory, in which a fast-spanning black hole might shed some of the natural shields that keep scientists from observing it directly, becoming what they call a “naked” singularity.
Link
-Dave

Sep

25

Germs get stronger in space

September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Science

From the NY Times
It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger and deadlier than ever. Except, it really happened.
The germ: Salmonella, best known as a culprit of food poisoning. The trip: Space Shuttle STS-115, September 2006. The reason: Scientists wanted to see how […]

Sep

20

I, for one, welcome our drumming ape overlords.

September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Film, Humor, Weird

This is mostly for Nate.
Enjoy.
-Dave
P.S. - Here’s the youtube link if the embed doesn’t work for you.

Sep

20

The Last American Man

September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Outdoors, Books, Philosophy

I started reading The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert, last week. It’s been a while since I purposefully slowed down my reading and forced myself to savor a book because I liked it so much. The book follows Eustace Conway, a man who walked into the woods as a young man […]

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