Swans on Tea

Then you’ll love Stair Porn
It’s OK to click. They only show stairs, not how stairs are made.
via neatorama

… when choosing your website name.
The 10 worst internet domain names
But at least they’re pretty funny.

Rating the Halloween candy
The Candy Hierarchy Anew (Halloween Experiment Debriefing ‘08)
TOP TIER
(caramel, chewy, oh my classy)
Caramellos — Milky Way — Snickers — Rolos* — Twix
Going back three decades or so to how I would rate things: Rolos and Twix do not appear near the top of my list; I rate Kit-Kat higher than Twix. [...]

Don’t try this at home. Or at the mall.
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more music charts
No, it should have been a Venn diagram. They’re all idiots.

Cornfield mazes and drawings

Body still on west-coast time, but with an east-coast schedule. There is much caffeine in my future.
Thoughts from this past week:
Airline travel really sucks. There is no space in coach, and the seats are really uncomfortable — my back still hurts. Next thing you know they will charge for air.
Note to TSA [...]

Return to sender: Artist puts Royal Mail to the test
To put [letter carriers] to the test she concealed the addresses of 130 letters to herself in a series of increasingly complex puzzles and ciphers. Among the disguises she employed were dot-to-dot drawings, anagrams and cartoons. The answer, it seems, was very far indeed. Amazingly, only [...]

All I really needed to know I learned in my spam box

Grand theft solar
As energy prices soar and consumers turn to the Sun for their power, opportunistic thieves are cashing in on the new market by dismantling and reselling solar panels.
“I wouldn’t say it’s pervasive, but it’s going on,” California Solar Energy Industries Association executive director Sue Kateley told the Contra Costa Times in August. According [...]

Think Geek is an evil website, the way they separate me from my disposable income.

Crimp-connectors, pop-rivets and magnets. Somewhat pose-able. Pedantic man notes that they aren’t technically toys in the office unless perhaps if the door is open, since they sit/stand on the door and door jamb. But they do occasionally distract [...]

So I ran across a version of the conversation that most physicists have had over on the Shores of the Dirac Sea (and it’s a new blog, so welcome to the blogohedron!)
The other thing that has happened is that I’ve had many conversations in airplanes where I have realized that people in general do not [...]