(No, not mouse meat. Mouse shaped.)
Why? Because we like you.
Bursting Your Bubble, Slowly
Dammit, Jim
What Doctor McCoy is and isn’t. Also includes others in the Star Trek franchise.
Public Service Announcement
Never, never do this.
Lighter in a blender.
via Geeks are Sexy
Warning: Do not attempt to do this at home, or in fact, anywhere, ever.
More Stuff You Got Wrong
Wikipedia’s List of Common misconceptions
Xmas Shopping
What to buy a man for Christmas
When in doubt, buy him a cordless drill. It does not matter if he already has one. I have a friend who owns 17 and he has yet to complain. As a man, you can never have too many cordless drills. No one knows why.
A is for Appendages
Out of This World
The Bad Astronomy Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008
Addicted to Film
Measure your addiction by using the IMDB top 250 list. I only scored 36.8% — I haven’t seen new releases in the theater in quite a while, so there are several newer films I haven’t seen.
Yeah, I Noticed
Google Blog Search loses its bearings
The Google Blog Search results have generally been the fastest and most useful tool of this kind (Google displaced Technorati, which had long served in this role, some time ago). But a couple of months ago Google Blog Search started becoming pretty much useless. Instead of only reporting links from the “main” blog content, it reported all links on a blog page, including the so-called “sidebar” or blogroll, where many bloggers place a lengthy static list of blogs they read.
via Daring Fireball