This is where I post random crap, thoughts, things of interest, and anything else I happen upon . . .

Tuesday
12Jan2010

Sea slug surprise: It’s half-plant, half-animal

DateTuesday, January 12, 2010 at 4:19PM | AuthorIs Steve Still Alive?

This green slug, which is part animal and part plant, produces its own chlorophyll and so can carry out photosynthesis, turning sunlight into energy, scientists have found.

A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It's the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll.

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Wednesday
09Dec2009

Picasso's Guernica

DateWednesday, December 9, 2009 at 10:44PM | AuthorIs Steve Still Alive?

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Tuesday
08Dec2009

Adorable Cat Behaviors With Shockingly Evil Explanations

DateTuesday, December 8, 2009 at 12:16PM | AuthorIs Steve Still Alive?

 There seem to be two kinds of people in the world: those who don't understand cats, and those who think cats are kind of douchebags.

Unfortunately for cat lovers, science has kind of come down on the side of that second group. Research has revealed that a lot of the quirky and even cute things your kitty does are actually signs that your cat is kind of a dick.

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Friday
13Nov2009

NASA Discovers Water On Moon

DateFriday, November 13, 2009 at 11:20PM | AuthorIs Steve Still Alive?

The visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact. Credit: NASA Click image for full resolution.LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon

The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water.

Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists and space enthusiasts alike. 

NASA today opened a new chapter in our understanding of the moon. Preliminary data from the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates that the mission successfully uncovered water during the Oct. 9, 2009 impacts into the permanently shadowed region of Cabeus cater near the moon’s south pole.

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Tuesday
27Oct2009

Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation (Україна має талант / Ukraine's Got Talent)

DateTuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:28PM | AuthorIs Steve Still Alive?

I just saw this video posted on my friend's Facebook page, I thought it was pretty amazing and worth sharing:

Kseniya Simonova (born 1985 as Ксения Симонова) is a sand animator from Ukraine. She started drawing with sand after her business collapsed because of the credit crunch and had been drawing for less than a year when she entered Ukraine's Got Talent. She became the 2009 Winner of Ukraine's Got Talent, constructing an animation that portrayed life during USSR's Great Patriotic War against the Third Reich in World War II.

Simonova won 1,000,000 Ukraninan Hryvnia (approx. $125,000 USD) for her first place in the show.

 

 

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Thursday
15Oct2009

Balloon Boy

DateThursday, October 15, 2009 at 12:41PM | AuthorIs Steve Still Alive?

Colorado Boy Floats Away In Balloon

Frantic Search Under Way To Rescue Boy

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A 6-year-old boy is floating over northeastern Colorado in a homebuilt balloon and authorities are racing to try and rescue him.

The balloon, in the shape of a flying saucer is covered in foil and filled with helium. It has a compartment for a passenger underneath. It lifted the boy into the air near Fort Collins Thursday morning after the balloon became unhooked at the boy's home.

"We were sitting eating, out looking where they normally shoot off hot air balloons. My husband said he saw something. It went over our rooftop. Then we saw the big round balloonish thing, it was spinning," said neighbor Lisa Eklund.

The father and son had apparently been working on the aircraft for some time..

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Friday
18Sep2009

John Lloyd plucks at the substance of several things not seen

DateFriday, September 18, 2009 at 11:12AM | AuthorIs Steve Still Alive?

Nature's mysteries meet tack-sharp wit in this hilarious, 10-minute mix of quips and fun lessons, as comedian, writer and TV man John Lloyd plucks at the substance of several things not seen.

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Monday
14Sep2009

Classic Kanye West Moments

DateMonday, September 14, 2009 at 1:03AM | AuthorIs Steve Still Alive?

Here are a few classic moments by our good man Kanye, this guy has some issues . . . he's always throwing temper tantrums and thinks everyone's racist.  The "Man" must be out to get him, what an idiot.

 

2009 VMAs

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Sunday
13Sep2009

Big Dude Skateboarding

DateSunday, September 13, 2009 at 8:31PM | AuthorIs Steve Still Alive?

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Tuesday
01Sep2009

Training Afghan National Army Soldiers

DateTuesday, September 1, 2009 at 12:35PM | AuthorIs Steve Still Alive?

If the enemy was even half as retarded as our allies we would have won this war a long time ago.  You should watch this video multiple times while focusing on a different individual, it's amazing:

Marines training ANA (Afghan National Army) troops in the proper method of the Side Straddle Hop (aka the Jumping Jack). The ANA troop on the right is nicknamed 'Andy'.

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