.: Above The Aether :.

Link to the video. – Dave

From our friends at the Onion Network News: I had to eat my own fingers.

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

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

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

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

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

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 [...]

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

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 and then walked [...]