And here be a timelapse of the cafeteria.

–In your one-car garage.

The Urbanite Magazine – SPACE

As a child I was fascinated by the idea of flooding the indoors to make a swimming pool.  Of course in reality this would neither be possible or desirable, or safe for that matter, but whenever it happened in cartoons it was always so cool.  Especially that part where you open a door and the water stays in place.  Glug.

Poynter Online – Late Editor Blames Three Key People for Newspapers’ Demise

I haven’t read Poynter in a long time, years even.  Always a good read.

my what a mighty fine video.

Ge has a really neat toy on the web.  Virtual hologram.  Go looky loo.

Step one is to print out a pattern.  Step two, you hold it up to your webcam.  Step three is to trip out.

And now they’ve found more of em.
Thousands of 6,000-year old cave paintings found in Peru’s Amazon region | Peruvian Times

Like this:
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And why not?

1709: The year that Europe froze – environment – 07 February 2009 – New Scientist

In 2004, Jürg Luterbacher, a climatologist at the University of Bern in Switzerland, produced a month-by-month reconstruction of Europe’s climate since 1500, using a combination of direct measurements, proxy indicators of temperature such as tree rings and ice cores, and data gleaned from historical documents (Science, vol 303, p 1499). The winter of 1708-1709 was the coldest. Across large parts of Europe the temperature was as much as 7 °C below the average for 20th-century Europe.

So Happy Birthday to Dad