Digital Chum - Virtual fish guts and other nonsense

Jun 4th 10 Posted by Dan

Sand Cat Kitten

I just came across this image while catching up on my blog reading via Google Reader and thought I’d share. The cute is almost too much to handle.

Jun 2nd 10 Posted by Dan

Iron Baby

Somebody knows how to do their special effects with style. This is really well done.

May 27th 10 Posted by Dan

Ugh.

Video showing what the BP oil spill looks like from underwater. Oil and chemical dispersant clouds. Ugh.

May 27th 10 Posted by Dan

From evolution to vaccinations to global warming, something I encounter on a regular basis on television and the internet is denialism, rejecting the scientific evidence in favor of an alternative…...

May 24th 10 Posted by Dan

Wireless is nice to me

I’m sitting outdoors on my deck under our pavilion with my netbook and a frosty beverage. Granted, it’s only grape soda (diet, at that), but only because I didn’t feel like...

Apr 27th 10 Posted by Dan

Tassimo Coffee Maker, FTW!

For an anniversary present, Lori got me this single-serving coffee maker by Tassimo (made by Bosch) that uses T-Disks to brew up a single cup of coffee. The brewing process takes about a minute...

Apr 6th 10 Posted by Dan

Rachel calls bull-pucky

Phil Plait is a Rachel Maddow fanboi and I can’t say I blame him. Though Rachel is fallible and has made mistakes before, more often than not, she hits the proverbial nail on the head,...

Apr 6th 10 Posted by Dan

OMGZOR! Heat Wave!!!

Amusingly, temperatures in Colorado (home of the National Weather Service Forecast Office) for the past few days have been higher than average, but all those people who were decrying global warming...

Mar 30th 10 Posted by Dan

I don’t think it means what you think it means

Via the Washington Post: Rove says the allegation that the Bush administration lied about weapons of mass destruction "is a pernicious political attack launched by cynical and hypocritical...

Mar 30th 10 Posted by Dan

Reality is fuzzy for Bachmann

I’m really ashamed that this woman is even electable in this country. “The media wants you to believe that tea party patriots are toothless hillbillies,” said Bachmann, who instead...

Mar 20th 10 Posted by Dan

Magic on Megan’s birthday

Friday evening, Megan had a sleepover birthday party with 3 friends and I performed a short magic show for them. I set up a video camera to capture it, but some of the show is lost because of...

Mar 13th 10 Posted by Dan

Sleeping or dead?

Megan and I were out running errands last weekend and, when we pulled into a parking lot at Five Below, we saw an older man sleeping in another car in the lot. As I turned off the engine, I pointed...

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NASA Image

A Chameleon Sky

The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL)
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