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July 15, 2005

Magical Musical Mayhem A delighfully whimsical interactive Flash program that invites you to create your own ambient music contraption. Addictive and enchanting. Via Waxy
Curious George, Undergrad Edition: So, on July 31st, I'm breaking my piggy banks and heading up to the University of Montreal for a certain physics conference. It's my first academic conference and I've never been up to Uni of Montreal, so I've got some questions. more inside

July 14, 2005

Spaceweather PHONE is an astronomy alert service from the creators of Spaceweather.com. When auroras appear over your hometown, your phone will ring. When the space station is about to fly over your back yard, your phone will ring. When planets align ... you get the idea. Costs money. But could be useful.
Curious George: My grandfather, who hates most everything, turns 80 this week and I have no idea what to get him. more inside
Daily Jigsaw I have no idea how many of you already know about this, but the puzzles are decent, and you can adjust the difficulty level. They amuse me, thought I'd share.
Jei Atacama, Healer, and Doctor of Oriental Medicine brings you Atacama Healing Water! That's right, for a mere US $64, you too can imbibe 16 ounces of water that has been spiritually empowered. more inside
WockyJivvy encourages attempts to get truly bad poetry published in anthologies. An excerpt from one selected as a finalist for publication in the National Library of Poetry: "My cat is chewing on her butt;/It makes me think she is a nut./I try to drown the fleas in spray;/They jump and shout and just yell "Hey!"
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) , adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination. more inside
Happy Birthday Blue! As mentioned here, here, here, here, sort of here, kinda here, here, here, more inside
This guy reckons the 'gas model' of the Sun is wrong and that it has a 'hard and rigid ferrite surface' below the photosphere. Whaaaaaaat??
Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de Gloire est arrivé. Words, sheet music, history of La Marseillaise. more inside
Biting the hand that feeds you. Not for the faint of heart.
A pictorial survey of uniforms worn by British schoolboys over the years
Zoroastrians in Iran A BBC pictorial around the Zoroastrian community of Iran.
The Treasures of the Library at NOAA The Treasures of the Library album and collection has been developed to share images from rare and unusual books that reside within the NOAA Central Library. more inside
Abused children of Angola - Exorcisms carried out to rid children of Kindoki. A BBC report, sparked by a recent case in London. more inside

July 13, 2005

Ride to Work Day All you Momo riding monkeys, July 20th is the 14th Annual Ride Your Bike to Work Day! At least if you're not hardcore like the rest of us and ride at least 10 months out of the year. more inside
Fabio After Dark! Listen up men, and listen up good. If you want to score with the ladies, the special ladies, there's only one way to go about it... if you want to open the lock to their hearts, then consider Fabio to be the key. Fabio is a muscular man of mystery. . . Sure, you could pick up one of the many, many, many romance novels that he's appeared on the cover of... But if you really want to get into the mind of this Italian inamorato, you need to hear his thoughts on love straight from his pulpy lips. Yes, Fabio recorded an album called "After Dark," and while you may not see it on TRL anytime soon, it boggles my mind why it hasn't become the #1 selling album in the history of the world . . . via Linkfilter
MYPETCAMS is the world’s first website that lets you use your webcam to watch your pet from any computer in the world for FREE! Which, of course, begs the question: Do you really want to know what your pets do while you're at work?
WorldCom's Ebbers Gets 25 Years in Prison Bernard Ebbers, who as the once-swaggering CEO of WorldCom oversaw the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history, wept in court Wednesday after a judge sentenced him to 25 years in prison — the toughest sentence yet in the string of recent corporate scandals. [Yahoo!News] I know it's newsfilter, but I couldn't find an appropriate thread to post it to.
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