Stalking Venus

This is one of the most bizarre things I’ve seen in ages. It’s a breed of goat that’s muscles seize up when they get a fright. This causes the goat to fall over, with all four legs sticking up in the air. You actually have to see it to believe it.
Fainting goats (Click to watch)

As if cat wigs weren’t enough (oh yes, believe it), now along comes kitty hats. The Spindles and Spices blog has been posting up some fine kitty-knit patterns from Ravelry.
For your cat.
I just want to reiterate that. You can knit a hat for your cat.
The patterns available include berets from France so you can give [...]

First off, let me say just how much I loathe Apple’s “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” adverts. They are stupid, condescending snobathons that do nothing more than increase the divide between Mac and PC users. In fact, if it weren’t for the fact that a Mac is called a Mac, it would be a [...]

I’ve been working my ass off today, so no time for anything except…
Pic of the day 17/04/2008

BERLIN (AFP) — A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.
Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis [...]

Pic of the day 16/04/2008

To all of those of you who registered as users on Stalking Venus:
My server wasn’t allowing outgoing email, which is why you never received your passwords. This has now been fixed, so if you’d like to try and re-register, I’d appreciate it!
Cheers,
T.

Johnny Lee has probably changed the face of the video gaming industry. It won’t be very long before we see some amazing commercial applications of his ideas.
Taking a $40 Wii remote control and a few bits and pieces bought for under $10 from Radio Shack, Lee turns his Wii-mote into a fancy 3D headtracking [...]

Pic of the day 15/04/2008