This kinda cracks me up… just a little background… you can guess what the ad is going to be about ahead of time because the term for condom in polite company is “small umbrella.”
Really, you want to see a Chinese condom ad.
Youtube has a 1960s film on the red China threat. I find the characterizations used so interesting because while some of the history facts are true, the way it’s put together is so sinister.
I thought it was amazingly amusing while scary at the same time that I have done two of the things listed in XKCD’s recent comic. How about you?
Inhabitat has a great writeup on a new power chord that will show you (in pretty shiny colors) when and how much energy you’re using. A great application that steps into other senses, and great reporting as well.
So, aside from having made myself some stuff from off of knitty, there’s also some great classical patterns floating out there (though check out the vagueries of the pattern instructions!), and also these really funky leg warmers.
This video is pretty darned amazing and makes me think that hula hoops need to be part of a workout plan.
There’s a great piece about knitting and the work that goes into it that Hapto pointed me to, and the message is a great one: take some pride in the value of the hard work that you put into something.
I love listening to The Naked Scientists at work. Mind you, they are going on vacation until September, but their archive is fully available and downloadable to listen to. I absolutely adore it and it keeps me going often at work.
On the question and answer show from August 6th there was a fantastic question and answer moment:
Question: My question is, if you have a star, say like the sun, which is approximately 860,000 miles across, and it explodes like a supernova, would the matter coming from it travel faster than the speed of light?
Answer: Well, first thing is to reassure everyone at home that the sun is actually probably too small to turn into a supernova and explode, it’s more likely to turn into a red giant and sort of fluff up about the size of a, which will kill us all anyway, but slightly less violently. But fundamentally no, nothing can go faster than the speed of light. In a supernova things would get very very close and be incredibly energetic.
There you go folks. My fears are assuaged. If the sun dies on us we will all die slightly less violently than if it exploded. Now I can sleep calmly at night. I’m off, snickering, to return to my tiny benthic bivalves (for now, Thyasira brevis).
I read this webcomic and had a good long laugh. It fits so well with some of the quirky things my professor has said all semester.
You may wonder if I’ve been reading the same webcomics. Well, here’s my current list of things I check up on regularly:
