Month: August 2007

The Unknown Highway Weird Links Fringe of the Web Vance DeGeneres : Official Website Nefertiti The Daily Detour: Grandma gives birth to grandkids? Ninjawords – a really fast dictionary The World’s Fair Free Fonts of the Month: FF Good, LTR Datamine prepend-x class in IE – Blueprint CSS | Google Groups MathTrek: Cracking the Cube […]

Calliope From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Detail of painting The Muses Urania and Calliope by Simon Vouet, in which she is holding a copy of the OdysseyIn Greek mythology, Calliope (Kaliope or Kalliope) (in Greek, Καλλιόπη — beautiful–voiced) was the muse of epic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and is now best known as […]

i am redesigning flickerbulb, again. i’m moving to a multi-column layout, in order to allow less scrolling to get to the archives, previous posts, bio, links (which don’t exist, yet) and flickr images. this is in preperation for moving to a new blogging system, and away from blogger, as i’m sick and tired of how […]

august 18, 2007 audrey wilson uhlrich wilson, of course, after my mother’s parents.

Old Tom was the name given to an Orca by whalers in the port of Eden on the South-East coast of Australia. Old Tom was the leader of a pod of Killer Whales who helped the whalers by herding baleen whales into Twofold Bay. The killer whales would help kill the whale and in return […]

how smart are these things? Another technique for capturing seals is known as wave-hunting: Orcas spy-hop to locate seals resting on ice floes, and then create waves by swimming together in groups to wash over the floe. This causes the seal to be thrown into the water where another Orca waits to kill it. This […]

Insincerity is a symptom that lets you hide the disease. It’s like a girdle: it’s a good sign you’ve gone off your diet, but it’s also a means to hide that fact. Eventually the real problem—that you’re washing cheeseburgers down with super-sized Cokes—is going to overtake your ability to hide it. In the end all […]

a new, and very well-written thus far, blog: Finally, it hit me. Specifically, a 1990 Buick Century. I was thrown onto the hood, hit the windshield, bounced off the asphalt, and ended up on my back in the middle of the street. In the end, I walked away with little more than some light internal […]

Humans have a characteristic diploid chromosome number of 2N=46 whereas the other Great Apes (orangutans, gorillas, and chimps) are all 2N=48. The large metacentric Chromosome 2 of Homo appears to be the result of a fusion between two smaller telocentric chromosomes found in the other Great Apes. In the figure above, Q-banding patterns in the […]

Dr. Bostrom doesn’t pretend to know which of these hypotheses is more likely, but he thinks none of them can be ruled out. “My gut feeling, and it’s nothing more than that,” he says, “is that there’s a 20 percent chance we’re living in a computer simulation.” Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch – […]

Girl overdoses on espresso coffeeJasmine was taken to hospital (picture Northern Echo)A teenager was taken to hospital after overdosing on espresso coffee.Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after drinking seven double espressos while working at her family’s sandwich shop. seven double espressos. by my estimation that is nearly 1 400 milligrams of […]

humble_servant asks: Is the bread and wine/juice that we take for communion only a symbol, or does it actually become the body and blood of Jesus? Please give reasons why. i never understood how it could possibly be “literal” the body and blood of jesus died, and according to the gospels, rose from the dead […]

Anyhoo. Here’s what we did. We started out with lunch, which was Kobe pears that I have specially flown in from Japan on the Jobs Jet. These pears are in season right now and you have to eat them within twenty-four hours after they’re picked or you miss most of the experience. I also flew […]

climate change doubters are stupid: August 8, 2007—Floods threaten a resident of Wuhan, China on August 4. Disasters brought on by severe rains have killed at least 652 Chinese so far in 2007. The violent weather is among a slew of record-breaking climate events that have pounded the world in the first months of 2007, […]