Swans on Tea

Rabbit wins half marathon
A runner dressed as a white rabbit caught 12,000 runners on the hop - by winning a half marathon in London.

15 uses for micro black holes
Use 10: Hang posters without tacks
Attention college students! Did you know that tacking posters to the wall of your dorm room can result in fines and loss of security deposits? Well, with mini-black holes, pin-holes and spackle patches are a thing of the past. Place [...]

Star Wars ABC

An idea we were joking about at one of the breaks between talks. You go to science camp, but the time is indefinite. You think it might be a week, and you tell everyone you think you have a week left, but it could end up taking a month. And at any [...]

When I was in Dulles airport the other day, I noticed a few of the airport stores had full-size cutouts of Obama, McCain and Palin outside their stores. No Biden. Either he was being stiffed for some reason, or there’s someone out there with a Biden fetish, stealing the figures.
That thought [...]

The other morning I made sure to tell a colleague about Whiteboard Tower Defense, a potentially addictive flash game. The colleague is giving a talk next week and in the finest tradition of physics research, had barely started to assemble his powerpoint slides and was starting to stress a little. So a time-wasting [...]

Star Trek barbershop quartet. Words I had never seen in the same sentence, until now.
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Coin-operated lamp
For when you’re so busy shaking your fist at the damn kids on the lawn that you can’t tell your own to turn out the damn lights.

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

Remembering the hits and forgetting the Mrs.
Technically not a logical fallacy, but will cause you to lose the argument, every time.

Delays at CERN because of a magnet quench, requiring repairs. But you already knew that.
What you may not have heard:
There could be further delays because helium has also escaped into the LHC’s tunnel, and there were unconfirmed reports that the vacuum had been lost in part of the beam pipe in which protons circulate.
So, [...]

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