The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary: you want rhyming words? They’ve got you’re rhyming words right there! I had to write a series of limmericks for a board meeting presentation tonight (sometimes it’s fun to be on a board of directors), and this tool helped me tremendously. Like when I needed several rhyming words for “questions”.

Steven over at Ethyl the Blog wrote a bit about Harpo Marx on Tuesday. The play I’m directing next summer, The Man Who Came to Dinner, has a character based on Harpo and many others based on his social circle. The show’s not until July, but I’m really starting to get into it.

Lunch has been over for three hours now, but I can’t stop thinking about how good that fresh bananna pudding was. Still warm, it was the perfect companion for the bar-b-que sandwich I had.

My college roommate (one of them, anyway), Phil “dE Cat with Grape Jelly” Jones has put some of his artwork online. We both started out in physics, but he realized one semester that it wasn’t right for him. Unfortunately, it was mid-semester and he couldn’t do much about it right then. So, while I wrote my lab reports, he made wonderful drawings and paintings. In the middle of the night, we’d run through campus, me to turn in assignments and he to hang his works on random walls.

Look what you can do with Elmer’s Glue! When I was a kid (not that long ago), all we did with Elmers glue was glue paper together and put it on our hands and let it dry. Who knew you could paint with it? Of course, when we wanted to paint something, we used the big plastic tubs of tempara paint.

The Astronomy Cafe is the web site for the astronomically disadvantaged, featuring “Ask the Astronomer”, “Ask the Space Scientist”, and lots of desription, pictures, and movies. And even though we al know that in space, no one can hear you scream, the Cafe has a section of space sounds.

A state-of-the-art optical observatory that produces images which are sharper and far more detailed than those obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope is scheduled for construction atop the Magdalena Mountains in central New Mexico. The university I attended has pulled off another coup in the Astrophysical world. Long a Mecca for radio astronomers, Socorro will soon be known for its optical observatory as well. One of these days I ought to put my astrophysics degree to use, I suppose…

From Fark:

Comedian Rowan Atkinson has crashed the sports car he bought to celebrate the success of his movie in the role of Mr Bean. He was unhurt. Featured on the same page is a link to a BBC story on the Blackadder movie to be shown in England after the new year. I like the goatee.

Kirk: “Where’s your crew?”
Decker: “They’re on the Tenth planet.”
Kirk: “There is no tenth planet”
Decker: “Don’t you think I know that!”

(By the way, you can see the classic Star Trek episode “The Doomsday Machine” with state-of-the-art digital effects here.)

Douglas Adams (author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – but did I really need to say that?) has completed a new series for BBC radio on the past, present, and future of the Internet. I’ve not yet found a full transcript, but here’s the BBC’s official pages on the series. Riding the wave of change is Douglas Adams, who recognised nearly ten years ago that information technology was set to revolutionise the way in which we communicate.