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Check out this gallery of fractals.
Glennzilla takes a look at Eric Holder, who is likely to be Obama’s new Attorney General, and generally approves.
Cool Site of the Week: JeongMee Yoon’s pink and blue project.
Have a safe New Year's Eve and be careful out there. As a final link for 2008, a google search of that phrase will bring you to the unofficial Hill Street Blues Web Site.
Scientists at Worcester Poly Tech are looking into the possibility of turning asphalt roads into renewable solar energy sources.
Divorce cakes, via Maru.
Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Crate Dog.
The underground houses of Coober Pedy, Australia, a town that is the source for 95% of the world’s opals.
Now we’re cookin’: How to bake a potato.
A few years ago I posted a pre-YouTube video of a newscast from Oregon (1970) of what happens when the state tried to get rid of a beached whale with dynamite. There’s now a site dedicated to the exploding whale.
Happy Birthday to the Midnight Cowboy (1938). The actor, not the movie (1969).
Buy your shouting vase here.
Albino Monday: Humpback Whale. This one's name is Migaloo.
Today’s slide show is a bunch of holiday cards for geeks.
The remains of one of the largest flying pterosaurs ever has been discovered in Brazil. It’s the first of its kind found outside of China.
Watch an unfair and biased political attack ad against Immanuel Kant.
Here’s how to collapse Iceland’s economy in ten easy steps (click on the image to bigger it).
If I did the whole xmas tree thing it would have been covered with FSMs.
Now we’re cookin’: Twenty-four holiday cookie recipes.
Watch the annual Thai monkey feast.
How to get busted in one easy download.
Play! The drums. This is for my two-year-old nephew who got a drum set for Christmas and who's father reads this and might see fit to provide a YouTube video because it's hysterical how good the kid is.
Your Teevee is showing A Christmas Story all day today. I didn’t know that Ralphie’s House is now a museum.
Buy your own Christmas Story leg lamp here.
I’m a day late with this, but NORAD has an official Santa-tracking site. I remember as a kid listening to the radio as they tracked his progress around the globe. Here’s a little history about how this all got started back in 1955.
I’ll play along and assume the guy actually existed, but according to astronomers Jesus was most likely born on June 7th, not December 25th.
Eight creepy Santas.
Have a safe holiday.
This is a micrograph of a dog intestinal roundworm. See more incredible micrographs here.
Here's the story of the Christmas pickle.
Give the gift of friendship this christmas. Befriend a geek.
Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Coondog and teh red chair.
Frank Rich asks “who wants to kick a millionaire”.
Four really, really bad economic scenarios.
Here’s an example of “Buffling”, a term which describes the use of business jargon outside the work place.
Now we’re cookin’: Monterey Bay Aquarium has published their guide to sustainable sushi online.
The electoral vote count is now official. 365 to 173.
This week’s Green Thing is a collection of photos of lamps in natural settings.
Stuff you should own: Buy your smoking gun here.
Who we lost in 2008.
Apple’s apples, or making geek fruit in Fiji.
Stuff you should know: David Bowie is very disappointed in you.
What is it about cats and the internets? This site uses them in a photo essay about how to face life’s challenges. And here’s a site that provides you with a daily kitten picture to start each day.
This week's marine life series on Daily Kos is about Christmas tree worms.
Why Barack should grow a beard.
Play! Sock and Awe. What could be more fun than winging a few shoes at the WPE?
Time’s 2008 person of the year.
I’ve linked to many niche blogs over the years, but ZooBorn just might be the best one yet. It catalogs the most recent animal births from zoos and aquariums around the world.
Twenty-four ways to brighten your morning.
iPod Shuffle:
Ten random things that can relieve boredom.
Ten animals that at one time people thought were mythical.
Ten funky modern table designs.
Ten incredibly beautiful fishes.
Ten animal myths debunked.
The Biomes Blog was started five years ago today. Here's a post from my one year anniversary on Dec. 17, 2004.
Try googling my way.
Although I’m now as physically healthy as I've ever been, in these past twelve months I’ve probably used more medical services than I have in the rest of my life combined. The end result of what has been one of the worst years of my life is the return to a fully healthy mind and body, thanks to being extremely fortunate to have some of the best health insurance around. I’d be in very big trouble right now if this wasn’t the case. Not everyone is so lucky, as dday explains.
