Out hiking/geocaching in the hot, hot sun with my camera, on the trail near South Run Park.
A number of sources indicate that for some species, female dragonflies dip their abdomens in water to deposit eggs after they’ve been fertilized; there was a bit of that going on in the stream, along with a bit of tandem flying, if you take my meaning. Not sure if the collision is territorial, a clumsy mating ritual or just Odonata dickishness.
The IMDB-ish resumé of Troy McClure
Cardboard Awesomeness
Google (at least in the US) has a Rube-Goldberg device for setting off a fireworks animation today.
The Onion: Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year
The National Anti- Quartering Association, America’s foremost Third Amendment rights group, held its annual gala in Washington Monday to honor 191 consecutive years of advocating the protection of private homes and property against the unlawful boarding of military personnel.
The Virtuosi: The Impossibility of Why
Another take on how science doesn’t do “why”
The history of photography starts at the human scale, with the first picture of a face in 1838 and moves in both directions, culminating in the WMAP cosmic background radiation image in 2003 and the first complete image of a molecule in 2009.
(Is this the first internet use of First! in a nonDickian application?)
June 30, 1905 Albert Einstein published his article “On the electrodynamics of moving bodies” in Annalen der Physik Vol 17 page 891, simultaneously (again, in this reference frame) opening up brand new fields of physics and crackpottery.
The results are in for the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest.
Winner: Detective
She walked into my office wearing a body that would make a man write bad checks, but in this paperless age you would first have to obtain her ABA Routing Transit Number and Account Number and then disable your own Overdraft Protection in order to do so.
