Son of a Bitch!

One Megajoule Laser Shot...

At the National Ignition Facility, in at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.

DAMN YOU VAL KILMER!

Testing fonts...I like Helvetica

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World's largest crab species..

Is the Coconut Crab "Birgus Latro". Relax, I tweaked my font. Anyways, this right here:

 

..not the biggest sample. That would be over here. 

My favorite part of the article is at the end...

Slowly winding up this morning....

Gonna take me a little bit to get really going for anything today. Saw an excellent show at the 'Wild Buffalo' in Bellingham, Washington. It was put on by a group called 'Delhi 2 Dublin', and it was for me the right mix of Punjabi traditional music, Irish fiddle playing, and electronica. So, let me go get some coffee this morning and I'll get back to you...

In the meantime, here's some photos of some live action role players (LARPers, Mom) that I think are actually very cool, credit to the Boston Globe for these.

 

 

This is an amazing visual representation...

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Sex and Religion according to Google!

more after the break...

Sweet costume, are you, like, Wonder Woman?

The folks over at the cool website i09 have found a crop of this year's batch of 'sexy [insert sci-fi character here] costumes'

Link after the jump

The Stout is on the way...

I just transferred over my "Imperial" Stout (depending on final results) over to the secondary fermenter and out of the hall closet.

It's around 12:30 in the morning...

and I can't sleep. Again. Might as well be productive. So, I'll just throw some stuff around.

Here's another one...

This is really awesome example of the corollary to any discovery: "Holy Cow, Nature's been doing that this whole time"?

Let's Start Slowly..

Here is something I found today that is a good example of the kinds of things I really enjoy. Check it out, it's from the another blog by an author (and pastry artist) named Beverly Hsu. Not really profound, just quietly awesome, and edible. I call it: "ediblawesome"?


Beverly Hsu. Totally worth it.

And here's a picture to hold your attention. That Captain Joe Kittinger, USAF, jumping from a balloon at 102,800 FEET! during "Project Exelsior".