Our FSM appears to us again

His great Noodleness, our Flying Spaghetti Monster has appeared to us in a pumpkin pie!

Truly we are all blessed by his noodly appendages.
RAmen.
Holy Sauce



iMailbox

Finally something useful to do with a Mac! ;)



Pimp your Gusty Gibbon

The Tux Enclave blog has a great article on how to pimp the look of your Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon machine(s). The guide is based on the latest gnome desktop and covers installing custom themes, icons, sounds, docks etc.

Also covered in the guide are Leopard and Vista themes, although why you would want your ubuntu box [...]



Space Shuttle launch photographed from the air

This image of the Space Shuttle Columbia blasting off the launch pad was photographed from altitude by NASA Astronaut John W. Young aboard the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) on November 12, 1981.
It’s a viewpoint not commonly seen and is absolutely awesome imo.

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Aurora sounds

If you happen to be reasonably close to one of the Earth’s magnetic poles, the next time there’s a particularly intense aurora, go outside. Get as far as you can from sources of noise – traffic, barking dogs, TVs – and listen. Listen carefully.
If conditions are right, you may hear some unusual noises. Earwitnesses have [...]



Geeks with tattoos

I stumbled across this collection of science related / geek tattoos. Some are clever however some are simply crap.
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High-def video of the moon

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has captured some impressive high definition footage of our nearest neighbor. The images were taken on October 31 by the KAGUYA spacecraft.

The image shooting was carried out by the onboard high definition television (HDTV) of the KAGUYA, and it is the world’s first high definition image data acquisition of [...]



UFO sightings hotspots map of the USA

This map was produced by the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (Chicago) and depicts the number of UFO reports per 100,000 people by county in the continental US.
• There is a marked difference in levels of UFO visitation between the eastern and western halves of the continental US. Apparently, extraterrestrials like it out [...]



How to make a speaker out of a plastic cup, lego, wire and a magnet

Hack together a speaker out of stuff you have laying around. It’s crude but it works and it is an interesting little experiment/project.
A speaker is just a magnet, a coil, frame and a cone or any material that can make the air vibrate. Here is the bill of materials that I used to build this [...]



Extermiknit! Extermiknit!

Knit your own Daleks :)

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