This photo from Astronomy Picture of the Day just blows my mind. In fact, the universe blows my mind. Click on the photo to see it larger. Arcing toward a fiery fate, this Sungrazer comet was recorded by the SOHO spacecraft’s Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on Dec. 23rd, 1996. … Positioned in space to [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Sungrazer comet
Posted in Nature, Science and Technology, tagged astronomy, astrophotography, comets, science, sun, sungrazing comets, universe on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ONE MILLION WILD SPIDERS FROM MADAGASCAR!!!!1!
Posted in Historical Information, Nature, tagged American Museum of Natural History, Madagascar, spider silk, spiders, textiles on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A spectacular and extremely rare textile, woven from golden-colored silk thread produced by more than one million spiders in Madagascar, goes on display Wednesday, September 23 [2009] in the [American Museum of Natural History]‘s Grand Gallery. This magnificent contemporary textile, measuring 11 feet by 4 feet, took four years to make using a painstaking technique [...]
Charlie Brooker explains the news
Posted in journalism/news media, Videos, tagged Charlie Brooker, journalism, news media analysis, TV news on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Newswipe with Charlie Brooker is a British news review show on BBC Four which exposes the inner workings of news media and politics. A first series of six episodes ran from March 25, 2009 to April 29, 2009. A second series began on January 19, 2010. You can watch the whole first series at Youtube. [...]
January Snow
Posted in laurel street, Videos, tagged January snow, snow, video on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bohemian Rhapsody
Posted in music, Videos, tagged 1975, Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury, music video, Queen on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Scholars & Rogues’ Dr. Slammy has posted a number of different performances of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. This one is absolutely hilarious. Go on over to Scholars & Rogues to listen to the others. It is really worth your while.
Bach on Monday
Posted in music, Videos, tagged J.S. Bach, music video on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ATTACK ALERT: “Internet Security 2010″
Posted in Pirates!, Science and Technology, tagged hackers, internet security, Internet Security 2010, rogue anti-spyware, rogue antivirus software on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Being forewarned is being forearmed. There is currently a rogue antivirus program attacking computers all over the internet. It makes a popup that appears to come from your task bar alerting you that your computer is under attack, to “click here” to download a program to remove the attack. DO NOT CLICK ON IT!!1! Instead, [...]
Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon
Posted in music, Videos, tagged Billie Holiday, jazz, music video on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
