Foggy Morning

It’s foggy in West Texas again this morning, so I thought I’d post an image from the last time we experienced the fog, in November. Here’s a bigger version.

Is it time for Al Gore to return his Nobel?

Roger L. Simon focuses on some very interesting new research regarding so-called “global warming” (and, yes, I use the scare quotes intentionally): In his paper, Qing-Bin Lu, a professor of physics and astronomy, shows how CFCs – compounds once widely used as refrigerants – and cosmic rays – energy particles originating in outer space –… Continue reading Is it time for Al Gore to return his Nobel?

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Addictive

Some things are inexplicably compelling…Slinkys, Fergie, and bubble wrap come to mind. I think we can now safely add this website to the list. [Link via Web Designer Depot’s Twitter feed]

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Creepy Dolls

Dolls have always had the potential to be creepy, if cast in the right (wrong?) light – sort of like clowns. Remember the steel-fanged playtoys in Barbarella? How about those that appeared in various episodes of The Twilight Zone? And we won’t even mention voodoo dolls. (Oops.) Then there’s this: Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on… Continue reading Creepy Dolls

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Random Thursday

OK, so where were we? Oh, yeah…that’s right…I lost two full days to a colonoscopy (and in a post-procedure drugged stupor asked my wife if she wanted to go shopping for gas logs). But enough about that… I’m not a “cat person” (science is on my side in that regard, by the way), but I… Continue reading Random Thursday

“Portraits of Power”

What do Muammar Qaddafi, Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Dmitry Medvedev, Hugo Chávez, and Benjamin Netanyahu have in common…well, besides that whole “head of state” thing? They each were photographed individually, along with forty other national leaders by Platon, staff photographer for The New Yorker, during a U.N. General Assembly last September. The results… Continue reading “Portraits of Power”

Random Thursday

Doing my part to ensure that you get your full daily 34-gigabyte serving of “information” (and in the process, setting a record for the loosest use of that term).

Blowing in the Wind

I thought yesterday’s windstorm was a bit unusual. Even in our often breezy locale, such events are rare in December; we usually experience these storms during the spring. As it turns out, I was right. Yesterday’s sustained wind speed and maximum gust (51 and 63 mph, respectively) were both all-time records for December. (It could… Continue reading Blowing in the Wind

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