Swans on Tea

How to draw anything (in 1 step)
Step 1. Draw a dog covering the thing you can’t draw.
Oh, sorry: Spoiler alert! There are examples at the link.
via kottke

I’m sure you all noticed that in the last panel of today’s XKCD, Randall mentions all of the quarks.

Up, Charm(ing), Strange(r), Top, Bottom, Down.
Geek meter: pegged.

Kubrick meets Henson.
A Clockwork Green

Non-Sequitur
[sigh]

Tank Fish at Partially Clips

Humbling at indexed.
Observation: Jessica’s plots vary as either 1/r, r or r2, but I can’t recall any that had an actual inflection point (in my semi-random sampling). There could be some subtle implications in inflection points. No asymptotic functions I can recall, either.

Map of Springfield and an interactive version (the website mentioned on the map leads to a dead-end)
via Neatorama

The Kansas Classroom

The Periodic Table of Comic Books
Click on an element, and find a listing of some comic books in which that element was used/mentioned, with scans of the pages.
I was previously unaware that there was a Ricky Nelson comic, nor that he claimed to be fascinated with the subject of the atomic world and nuclear fission. [...]

Today’s xkcd is about quantum teleportation, but the problem isn’t that journalists write the “same disappointed story” whenever quantum teleportation is being reported. It’s that they still report that teleportation is somehow connected to moving matter around, whether they’ve been waved off about it or not; the latter would be because they didn’t vet [...]

News from Uncertain Principles. Futurebaby is now in the past tense, and is now Steelykid.
Belated congratulations to Chad and Kate, the proud parents. I’m expecting big things for my Silver Warriors (I’m class of 1980), from whatever sports teams she’s on in 15 years.

(Of course this loses meaning if it was [...]

Today’s Non-Sequitur
Quick thoughts: yes, it would fire. As Tommy Lee Jones reminds us, pistols (not just Glocks) can fire underwater, if you’re stupid enough to do so (like you’re performing DIY Shock wave lithotripsy) — they carry their own oxidant.
The bullet would travel faster, too. There would be less drag [...]