In a daring display of one-upsmanship scientists of the auroras borealis were not content with all the press their newer noctilucent cloud studying brethren were getting and have discovered (maybe) the source of power for these northern lights! Using satellites and magic they believe that they are caused by “comes from a stream of charged [...]

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So some random website is reporting that Korean scientists have cloned cats but with a sciency twist. The twist? Obviously they made the cats glow in the dark. Now there’s every possibility that this is a hoax - most likely on the part of the internet, but it’s true that the Korean’s now have a [...]

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Ok, Merriam-Webster has just announced it’s word of the year. w00t. The reason for this is that it was voted online. Compare and contrast to locavore, the word of the year for the New Oxford American Dictionary. Not voted for online. My favourite is the quote from m-w’s president:
“People look for self-evident numeral-letter substitutions: 0 [...]

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You know, when I was growing up, all we had in the way of wierd lights in the sky were UFO’s and Aurora Borealis. But now there’s night-shining clouds for the whippersnappers to gaze upon. These so called noctilucent clouds are coming on faster, lower and brighter than ever before and scientists (my favourite, you [...]

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Remembered Monday, almost forgot the Art.
Ok! The Garden State is getting it’s dose of giant rats! These 20 pounders have been making their way north for decades and have at last reached their promised land. As the billboard goes, NJ and rats, perfect together! Of coruse they aren’t really rats, these nutria, they look like [...]

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If you like seeing old photos skarabej is for you. If you don’t like that, well… maybe you should reconsider your priorities in life, come on, those old photos you find in flea markets and garage sales? Cool! Skarabej is kinda like the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players just without the players and the snark… skarabej [...]

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Huh, just found this piece on how the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music is going to start a masters program in animation. (via) Apparently this is the first of it’s kind in Japan? What? How can that be? Don’t we (in the US) have tons of courses like this? I’m surprised that [...]

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Ok, this one’s wierd. Some old dude has gone all National Treasure meets DaVinci Code on his own ass and has decided that Jesse James was a member of a secret society called the Knights of the Golden Circle. Furthermore these Knights have buried a metric crapload of gold in various stashes around the Confederacy. [...]

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“Beastie Boys Radio is back!!” To be honest, I didn’t even know it was gone, but I got the email yesterday so that’s good enough for me. If you’re diggin it, you ought to give a listen. Here’s the straight dope:
“It’s been a long time”
Just cause we have nothing better to do we will be [...]

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First post-snow Monday Art.
Awesome! We (America) just told those lobsterbacks that we can go and kidnap British citizens if we damn well pleased. Those wig wearers thought that we were only talking about kidnapping those involved in terrorism but we got the last word in when we told them that our law applies to anyone [...]

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