Feline Alarm Unit
A while back, I wrote about the Feline Alarm Unit. Someone made my day by writing to complain about his feline alarm not operating as advertised. Read and enjoy!
Alison Hawke
Alan Quartermain
H. Rider Haggard created the prototype for Indiana Jones: Alan Quartermain. Haggard was a British writer, born in 1856, died in 1925, two of the Alan Quartermain novels he wrote are The Lost City of Gold and King Solomon's Mines, which was made into a film with Richard
Changing the world
From Philip Gerard's "Writing a book that makes a difference"
If you had the power to instantaneously change one thing in the world that didn't affect you personally, what would it be? Why would you change it? What's the most eloquent argument
New music
Does anyone know any compilations of Arabic electronica besides The Rough Guide to Arabesque?
Wireless access sofa
Happy Fourth of July!
I'm blogging from the sofa. No wires, no nothing, except the occasional crackle from the speakers when the laptop talks to the wireless box upstairs. Totally painless install on my part, because Hubby did it for me, including the part where two blue boxes
Petunias of the world...
"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was "Oh no, not again." Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about
Pentaquark (particle physics 101)
Quarks seem to like prime number combinations, two, three, and now five quarks combine into one subatomic particle, Behold the pentaquark.
Physicists have discovered a new class of subatomic particle that will provide unexpected insights into the fundamental building blocks of matter. The discovery involves quarks - particles that make up
Quiet
Someone in my department died last night in her sleep. There's only thirteen of us in the department. Don't know what to feel or think.
Everquest
Another BBC News story: EverQuest exposes cost of sexism. Well, duh.
EverQuest gives game players, both male and female, the chance to throw off their Earthly restrictions and become a hugely powerful warrior, sorceror, priest or monk in the online world of Norrath. Some people also use it as an
Bounty
Interesting piece in the BBC News today, Above the law: US bounty hunters.
Multi-millionaire fugitive rapist Andrew Luster is back in police custody, but he was tracked down by an independent bounty hunter, not the authorities. The bounty hunter in question, Duane "Dog" Chapman, could face charges