In case you haven’t been to the Google Maps moon interface, it includes some handy little markers for the various moon landings as well as a charming little “easter egg.”
Just play with the controls, you’ll find it.
Funny Bone
Kind of a neat resource
One of the things that has been said about me in every teacher, internship, or mentor evaluation I’ve ever received is that not only do I want to know how to do a task I want to know why we do that task that way. Is there something that compels us, because of the inherent nature of the task or the goal or the field of study in which we’re working, to do something one way vs another? I found a nifty little site that will help out with that: Howstuffworks.com
Many of the articles are written for about a junior high school level but about somethings (how a rail gun works, how the U.S. Federal Reserve works) I need the junior high level explanation. Still, it’s a decent resource if I decide to do NaNo this year.
Arrrr!
Avast! It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day. Make sure to answer your phone appropriately.
Can’t talk like a pirate? You can either learn or use this handy English to Pirate translator.
I’m goin’ to find me eye patch….
6 degrees of iPod
Does anyone besides me find it a little freaky that the same guy who, in 1976, produced AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap went on to produce, in 2000, Britney Spears’ oops!…I did it again?
Robert John “Mutt” Lange…go figure
Things I’ve seen and heard
On several phone poles around the corner from my office:
What sorts of things do you suppose they have?
Overheard on the way home yesterday:
Panhandler: Spare a dollar, lady?
Middle-aged woman: What for?
Panhandler: Just because.
Truth in advertising perhaps?