We just purchased some new furniture this past weekend and my favorite piece is now comfortably situated in front of the big TV just inviting me to come watch movies until… well… until I fall asleep, actually. Here it is, swamping Megan in its giantness. It’s doubly awesome (no pun intended) because it will easily hold two [...]

Jerry Coyne, of Why Evolution is True, linked to a video today of a pack of orcas hunting together and working cooperatively to get a seal off an ice floe. There’s more info at his article (and the info originally came from the book Here Be Dragons). I imagine that seal is a bit freaked out.

Lori showed me this video the other day of some foxes playing on a trampoline. One of them obviously likes the bounciness!

Video from the BBC Life series showing bottlenose dolphins “mud-ring feeding” off the coast of Florida. Clever, clever animals!

I saw this months ago, but listened to it again and wanted to share it. Tim Minchin performs his beat poem titled “Storm.” Don’t let “beat poem” put you off. This is such a wonderfully entertaining, funny, and insightful nine minutes that you won’t regret it!

I remember owning this Disney album of spooky sounds! What a wave of nostalgia!

Okay, it’s not really in the house, but today Lori bought a new silver Scion xB to replace her aging Dodge Caravan. The dealer let her bring it home so I could check it out and we took it for a quick test drive around the neighborhood. It’s got a lot more pep than I [...]

I saw this video linked by Felicia Day via Twitter. It’s a sand painter/animator on the Ukranian version of "America’s Got Talent" and she’s phenomenal.

Last night was the first time I got to use my new telescope that I got from Telescopes.com. It was delivered on July 17th and, with one exception, the sky has been cloudy every… single… night! Finally, last night, there were enough clear spots that I could get a nice view of the moon [...]

I remember seeing the Phlat Ball on television awhile ago. It’s a Frisbee kind of thing that turns into a ball when you throw it. So you throw it just like you would a Frisbee, but you get to catch a ball. The commercial had all kinds of cool shots of the ball transforming [...]

After writing the last post about Rush Limbaugh, I got a bit of a sickening feeling in my stomach and realized that today’s post made three in a row about Rush. That’s both depressing and unacceptable. So in order to remedy that sad state of affairs, I figured it’d do a quick write-up of [...]

While perusing Tom’s Astronomy Blog, I saw a post about the Arches Cluster, which is near the center of our galaxy, a mere 25,000 light years away. Pictures of space always fascinate me, but this picture comes with information that takes “fascinate” to a whole new level. The Arches Cluster is a small (relatively speaking), dense [...]