Grey on Mar 23rd, 2008Happy Easter!
[Eat my body and my blood — the Zombie Last Supper]
Grey on Mar 21st, 2008iPods in SPACE
NASA has a huge archive of photographs available for the public to browse. Take a close look at this one of a shuttle preparing to dock with the International Space Station:
What’s that in the window? If we crop and enlarge the image, there’s a iPod clearly visible. What sort of playlist do […]
Grey on Mar 17th, 2008The Seven Deadly Sins of Poor Writing
Recently the Catholic Church declared that the seven deadly sins needed updating. The old sins (for those of us who have not seen se7en) are:
Lust
Gluttony
Avarice
Sloth
Wrath
Envy
Pride
The church’s new seven deadly sins are:
Environmental pollution
Genetic manipulation
Accumulating excessive wealth
Inflicting poverty
Drug trafficking and consumption
Morally debatable experiments
Violation of fundamental rights of human nature
Much has already been written about the necessity […]
Grey on Mar 14th, 2008Nuclear Bomb Test Sites in Google Earth
At the Google Earth discussion site, an intrepid user has posted a file that shows the location of every nuclear bomb detonation on Earth — all 2,000 of them. It’s really something to see all the red dots spread across Nevada, the former Soviet Union and the oceans.
[Click here to see the 2,000 Nuclear […]