Snopes on celery

It’s the digestion process, not the chewing that uses energy while eating celery. Yeah factoid!

Flares and Fires

Astonishing Earth Observatory images of the Wildfires Strike near Los Angeles and San Diego and the solar flares.

Enhancements R Us

I had no idea that the US FDA has approvedmaking healthy short kids taller with injections.The milestone was passed July 25, when the Food and Drug Administration officially recognized the practice of giving supplemental injections of human growth hormone to healthy...

Nasty new popovers

Armand Morin’s PopOver Generator works even in Firebird. Come on you open source lads – lets have a block!

Knee Defender

I think I need a Knee Defender. I wonder if it works. But they couldn’t sell it if it didn’t, no?

Jon Udell and blog searching

XPath search of Jon’s Radio sees Jon Udell making the most of structured markup. As he says, there is no easy way to create any of this in normal blog publishing tools. It’s a shame because it rocks! I can probably hack some of this stuff in Macro Express,...

Strong argument against Shuttle design

“Not Culture but Perhaps a Cult”, Op Ed on NASA and the Shuttle by Homer Hickam argues that the current Shuttle design is pretty dumb in placing the spaceplane right in the middle of the launch stack. I must say, it seems pretty telling to me.