Month: July 2007
-
Scooby Doo or Scooby Woo?
[Apparently Scooby Doo episodes now have actual ghosts, rather than evil land developers in masks](http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/06/the_corruption_of_scooby_doo.php).
-
On jogging
For the past few weeks I have been trying something that I’ve never done before in my life – jogging every day.[^1] All through High School I was always the least enthusiastic about the annual cross country, greatly preferring sports that required a bit less in the way of actual physical exertion. And ever since…
-
Is the Sun an alien?
[No!](http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/). There are some very, very strange things on the internet…
-
Corn fields, driving and cocaine
[A picture that shows what happens when you mix the three](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/25/drug_addled_driver_m.html).
-
What’s on that pole?
[A guide to the contents of your power pole](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6735420).
-
Champagne moments
[Great essay from Scott Adams of Dilbert fame on success](http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/06/champagne-momen.html)
-
Tuesday craft
[Make your own Pixel T-Shirt](http://kotaku.com/gaming/crafts/make-your-own-8+bit-t+shirt-271718.php).
-
The Coming Storm
[Sometime in the next six months](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2007/01/year-of-the-election/) there will be a Federal election in Australia. Between now and then, expect things to get a little nutty. I’m sure that some might argue that we’re seeing it already: terrorist plots on the Gold Coast, hysteria over changes to industrial relations, pointless name calling over cimate change, and…
-
A snuggly planetarium
[The strangest turtle out there](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/spoiled-kids/twilight-turtle-planetarium-you-snuggle-271727.php).
-
Distorted pictures
A painting [designed to ve viewed through an anamporphic lens](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/06/anamorphic_painting_of_a.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).