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Accessorize That Tinfoil Hat
Warning that UFO sightings and alien abductions are on the rise, the Earthbound dogtag promises to help the hapless abductee return safely to Earth. The aluminum tag is die-stamped with information similar to that sent by NASA on the Pioneer 10 mission. Engraved with several methods of locating Earth in the Galaxy, an alien pilot…
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Notice Anything Different?
Yeah, I got sick of the boring old theme. So now we have a boring new theme. That’s called progress.
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This Makes Me Oddly Happy
Stanford University physicist Shamit Kachru and three colleagues recently released a paper with the euphonious title Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking which contained this sentence: While in both cases for P anti-D3-branes the probe approximation is clearly not good, in the set up of this paper we could argue that there is a…
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Captain Picard Has a Blog
Who knew? Why I get invited to see the new technology is beyond me. Do Starfleet want my approval or something? I doubt it, as they never listen to me anyway. Link (I love the Internet….)
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Teh Funneh
im in ur bocks
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The Ten Strangest Things in Space
David Bowie, oddly, is not amongst them. Orbiting Frog’s list, unlike the recent Space.com list, consists of “real” objects instead of the largely computer-simulated ones that Space.com featured. I find the picture of the “blob” in the Orion Nebula oddly creepy, but I honestly can’t put my finger on why. Link (via The Presurfer)
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I Have to Agree
Mimi Smartypants says: No better headline has ever been written.
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Life in the Year 2000
The PaleoFuture blog has a number of posts about depictions of 21st-Century life as envisioned at the very beginning of the 20th Century, such as this very cool collection of prints from 1910 which predict everyday life in the year 2000. I love the “Correspondence Cinema” one; you can almost hear the lady saying, “Help…
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Your Birthday Star
The Birthday Stars generator finds stars whose distance matches your age in light-years from Earth. So if you’re 35 years, 6 months old, the generator will give you the name and location of a star that is 35.5 light years away. Your stars will (obviously) change over time, as you get older and light from…
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Celebrate One Web Day
Today is One Web Day, which is meant “to encourage people to think of themselves as responsible for the internet, and to take good and visible actions on Sept. 22 that (1) celebrate the positive impact of the internet on the world and (2) shed light on the problems of access and information flow.” So…