I was just looking through the usage statistics for this site, and once again the most popular search phrases are hilarious: * “the terminal true story”:http://www.google.com/search?q=the+terminal+true+story * “donald trump toupee”:http://www.google.com/search?q=donald+trump+toupee * “she turned me into a newt”:http://www.google.com/search?q=she+turned+me+into+a+newt I swear I’m not making this up. People actually come here specifically to find these things. Oh, to [...]
Posted by Chris in Blog on February 24th, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Just you wait ’til Ben is old enough… “Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids”:http://www.scitoys.com/
Posted by Chris in Science on February 23rd, 2005 | Comments Off
According to an article in New Scientist, “Mars may have a frozen underground sea”:http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7039 right near the equator. If it’s there, it’s just under the surface, is about 45m (145ft) deep, and covers thousands of square kilometers, about the size of the North Sea. In related news, I just finished reading “Red Thunder”:http://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030929/red_thunder.shtml, John Varley’s [...]
Posted by Chris in Space on February 21st, 2005 | 1 Comment »
A recent “Guardian story”:http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1418173,00.html provides insight into what our new US “exurbs”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exurb look like to the UK: “As US towns sprawl into the countryside, creating anonymous zones dominated by soulless malls, one of Britain’s leading historians asks if it could happen here…” Scariest quote: “After a closely fought referendum, Phoenix, a city of 3.5 million [...]
Posted by Chris in Architecture on February 20th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
OK, so let me get this straight. We’re spending “$9 billion a year on a ‘missile defense’”:http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-17-rumsfeld-missiledefense_x.htm which a) doesn’t stop missiles even in simple testing and b) wouldn’t deter anyone from developing or deploying missiles. If that’s the case, I have a “bullet defense” here that consists of waving a pen vaguely in the [...]
Posted by Chris in Politics on February 18th, 2005 | Comments Off
