One for Gabe

For the one who sends me so many weird music links, here's one from Blogger via moi.

http://www.geekspeakweekly.com/cowbell/

Vainglorious

The price you pay for giving me unfettered posting rights...

Wallace Stevens once wrote: "A poem is a meteor."

I wrote:

"LuluBelle"

A fat black sleepy cat
collapses by a window
under the weight of warm dusty sunlight.

If a poem is a meteor,
then I am a cat,
but I would like to be a meteor,
which is a very un-cat-like desire.
This is the source of all human suffering.

- Richard

Extract your own DNA

Part of what makes science so cool is the fact that much of it is so weird. The Guardian Unlimited (UK) has published an article about a "List of 100 things to do before you die" as suggested by a group of scientists. Among the more bizarre ones was this gross, but cool item:

Extract your own DNA by spitting gargled salt water into diluted washing-up liquid and slowly dribbling ice-cold gin down the side of the glass. Spindly white clumps which form in the mixture are, basically, you

Another cool item claims that Manchester researchers are testing foot-pads that would allow you to climb buildings like Spider Man. Rock on.

The article:
Guardian Unlimited: Turn yourself into a diamond: tips from science on a good life, and death

Weird Al Dontgetsick: Food safety music

Yet another one from those clever Boing Boing people:
Food safety music sung o the tunes of (mostly) 60's and 70's hits, made by a food toxicologist at the University of California. Complete with powerpoint slideshows...

My personal favorite? "They Might Kill You/ We are the Microbes" to the tune of "We will Rock You/ We are the Champions".

A sample:

Buddy you're a young man, dumb man, careless
And you're gonna make someone quite sick someday
You got spores on your plate
They'll incubate
There's trouble if you cross-contaminate

Microbes they might kill you
Microbes they might kill you...

Tasteless,
Priceless.

An odd product for Target's assortment...

I bet that this will be removed pretty quickly, but for the time being, this is pretty funny. See Target.com's product page for Marijuana

This, too, brought to us by the fine people at BoingBoing.net... their post also has a link to a screenshot, since it's sort of expected that they'll remove it.

Truth be told, I'm testing out HELLO, which makes it easy to load pictures to the blog. Nifty, indeed. Check out this picture of Edison...

GabeusCorpus

I just recently located some photos we took at the Sunset Grille in August. Here's a slightly blurry, but no less cute shot of Ana Tobin.

GabeusCorpus

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

To all of those I didn't get to say it to in person, Happy Thanksgiving. There are many, many things to be grateful for, and you are most likely one of them, so pat yourself on the back.

Here is another thing to be grateful for (courtesy of BoingBoing.net):
The BananaGuard

I am so relieved.

A quick glance at the layers of the Ocean

Dive! Dive! Dive!

From WIRED - a breakdown of the layers of the ocean. Nift-o-matic.