A Nice Friday Evening Problem
19 November 2010
I am contemplating which Mystery Science Theater episode the children and I will view. This is a nice Friday evening problem to have. After finally seeing "Manos, the Hands of Fate", Boy has decided it is, as many think, the worst movie in the MS&T repertoire, but Girl still holds out for "The Wild World of Batwoman."
The Cowardly Lion (my first choice) appears to have been pre-cast, but I have been called back for the Wizard (aka Professor Marvel), my second choice.
18 November 2010
via Maya Bohnhoff: Watch out for those nasty, intolerant middle-eastern religions...
Fathima Bary Needs to Read Her Bible; Final Word on Islam and Apostasy | loonwatch.com
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I'm wondering what these are called on restaurant menus. (Yes, people eat them.) Somehow the names "woodlouse" or "giant undersea roly-poly" don't seem that appealing. Thanks as usual for the great pix, Jessica.
The Strange and Fearful Sea (Facebook link)
Aquatic woodlouse (Bathynomus giganteus). Most woodlice are terrestrial but a few species have returned to the water. Dwelling at extreme depths, the aquatic woodlouse is another example of deep-sea gigantism.
Some striking or bizarre creatures of the vasty deeps.
By: Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Long day and long night, working and running around trying to learn a dance routine for audition. Thirty years since I last did that and I hadn't missed it at all. God I was terrible. Fortunately I can do the rest of the stuff okay.
via Blake Charlton: Thanks to my friend Blake for this — amazing and humbling and exhilarating.
The Animators of Life - Video Library - The New York Times
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Building on decades of research and mountains of data, scientists and animators are now recreating in vivid and sometimes jaw-dropping detail the complex inner machinery of living cells.
