My friend Erin McCarthy works at Popular Mechanics. We met at Comic Con last year, and at this year's nerdfest we chatted briefly about me possibly writing an article for them some day. That day has come. On their website they've posted my short but deadly "Top 5 Ways the Universe Could Wipe Out Humankind".
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It's Caturday! And I'm feeling amphibious, so here's how a frog sees the day:My brother-in-law took this (he's making Caturday a lot easier for me these days). Look closely. Closer. Don't be afraid, get even closer… because if you look closely enough, you'll see why I think Chris is an excellent photography pupil.*Yes, I know
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... hate spammers as much as anyone. Maybe more, since I have to deal with them as a blogger, too. LinkedIn isn't a spammer site, but I do get emails every now and again from someone asking me to join their network there. I signed up for LinkedIn ages ago but never use it since
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Over on Randi's site, they just posted this image of His Skepticalness and a familiar spaceship:When I saw it, my first thought was, "I find your lack of faith… refreshing."How would you caption this picture?
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In June, I posted about a pinup calendar where the model was somewhat more naked than naked: in fact, the pictures were all X-rays!I was fascinated by the implied raciness of the pictures, given that at best all you could see was a hint of curves. The poses themselves were provocative as well, and I
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Mitchell and Webb just keep on giving (one NSFW word):I love how well he does Dawkins' voice; it sounds very much like him. Maybe we need to think about getting M&W to TAM London. Those guys are clearly One (well, Two) Of Us. If you're not familiar with them, they do a comedy sketch show
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Last Caturday, I posted a picture of my cat relaxing a little too well. This shows a slightly different side to her:That picture, taken my brother-in-law Chris, is somewhat more accurate. For some reason, she hates him (and his son Derek even more). She rears back, spits, hisses, and generally makes terrifying guttural noises. It's
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Last Caturday, I posted a picture of my cat relaxing a little too well. This shows a slightly different side to her:That picture, taken by my brother-in-law Chris, is somewhat more accurate. For some reason, she hates him (and his son Derek even more). She rears back, spits, hisses, and generally makes terrifying guttural noises.
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It's Caturday! And this time, I actually have a picture of my cat. I was trying to relax and watch Craig Ferguson, and she decided between my legs was the best spot in the whole house to be. And look how lady-like she is:I need to stop her before that fourth beer every night. Otherwise she
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I'm a Craig Ferguson man, truth be told, but I have to give Jimmy Fallon major props for devoting major time to Milky J this week. C'mon, you remember Milky J: he's the Hubble Gotchu guy. He was on Fallon's show again this week, but this time got some bad news: Hubble will be replaced
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an understated and perfectly to the point comic by calamities of nature.
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... while back I posted a pretty cool picture care of the European Southern Observatory: It shows the Moon setting behind the Very Large Telescope observatory in Chile. BABloggee Craig Clem notified me that in July this picture was the victim target of a Fark. com Photoshop contest (some pix maybe NSFW), where people are invited
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about a month ago i got an email titled "space porn" which i have to admit, isnt so unusual these days as people like to point me towards pictures of things that resemble sexual organs. if this makes no sense, please read the related post: dirty space news. what was notable about this particular space porn email was that it was from phil plait, the bad astronomer, asking if he could use the idea and some of the images for his upcoming w00tstock talk. well, of course i said yes and now we are
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... love geeks. I love clever people. I love sciencey stuff. So this fills my heart with squishiness: a skirt with rows of lights that illuminate when facing north: Make those LEDs red and every astronomer could use it. Not to mention campers, hikers, and let's face it, nerds like all of us. I would dance
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