The Brunching Shuttlecocks did a rating of Paleolithic Webpages, and included The Garden of Eden:

Eve Astrid Andersson was the original Hot Web Babe, based on the fact that she was female, had a Web page, and had memorized hundreds of digits of pi. Andersson’s star has been eclipsed, sadly enough, by the hundreds of pay-per-peek Web sites with “cam” in the name, but know that there was once a time when a woman’s attractiveness on the Web was measured not by how much skin she flashed at her QuickCam, but by how many numbers she could stuff into her brain at once.

I’ll take a brain stuffed with numbers over a bit of flashed skin any day. But I guess that’s just me.

SEE amazing turtles on Mars!
DODGE flying fists at AGU meetings!
WALK barefoot in warm Martian puddles (but keep that skimask on)!
All this and more can be yours at Holger Isenberg’s Mars News

This American Life (my favorite Public Radio show) was quite good last night. Titled Invisible Worlds , it discussed eavesdropping on radio transmissions, investigating places you’re not suppossed to see, and the power of unspoken conversations. Most This American Life episodes can be heard in RealAudio on the show’s website.

“Come on out kids!” “Are you going to destroy us?” “Yes.”

My cold is still lingering, down deep in my chest. It’s been years since I’ve been hit this hard by a pesky little virus.

A long time ago, I spent a lot of time reading though the wonderful nuggets at An Entirely Other Day, but then I forgot about it.

Memepool reminded me about it, and it’s still a good place to visit.

From Cardhouse:

Infectious Neckties, Scarves, Boxers: These unique neckties and scarves are made from the finest 100% silk, and are designed to complement every wardrobe from laboratory to boardroom. The patterns represent many of the most serious and misunderstood diseases troubling society today.

Again from the BBC: Pioneer 10 is still making discoveries after 27 years in space. Good for it!

From the BBC:

Cheese roll goes down well

I wasn’t sure if this was going to be a story about the Baby Jessica of cheese or a statement about the benefits of washing down that quesadilla with a healthy serving of milk. Turns out it’s about neither. Beware! As the caption helpfully points out, “Rolling cheeses have injured people.”

Phlegm is a graphics program that uses a microphone to control brush characteristics.

The user makes natural spitting sounds, and the resulting brush shape approximates what you’d expect to see on the screen if you really were spraying saliva onto the monitor.