Stalking Venus

Gospel twisters use their latex rubber arts to explore Biblical characters and teach Bible lessons to kids, whereas the ‘adult twisters’ on the other hand, use their latex rubber creations to explore each other in interestingly and not altogether appropriate ways

Okay, so I could have just gone out into my back yard, pointed the camera at the ground and pressed *click*. However these are in fact, photos of the surface of another planet. Mars, to be precise.
It never ceases to amaze me just how quickly humans adapt to stuff. Just over 30 years ago, we [...]

Continuing with the snail theme inspired by the Slinkachu post, here are two poems by Gus Ferguson:
Conjunction
Me&ering along the str&
(&ante, stepping, serab&)
Where littorally sea joins l&
I spied, engraved upon the s&
A perfect, snaildrawn ampers&
Go to the snail, thou Sluggard
The snail, most people think a pest,
It spins no web nor weaves a [...]

Slinkachu has embarked on a new project with his little people, that’s taken the concept to a whole new level. He’s started to incorporate live creatures. The first, in what will hopefully be many more, is called the Inner City Snail - A slow moving street art project.

Sad news for the film world today. The New York Times is reporting that Sydney Pollack died in his home last night, aged 73.
The world-class director of award-winning films like Out of Africa, Tootsie, and The Way We Were succumbed to cancer in his home on Monday night.
Details and filmography here.
Sources:
New York Times via BoingBoing

Not only did I not know that there was a slew of ‘God thinks you’re a jerkoff but he doesn’t mind me emailing you to tell you so’ services out there, but now I also know that if I want to send gloating emails to my ‘friends’ that didn’t make the grade, at least those emails will be protected by multiple safeguards to ensure they don’t get sent before I’m actually safely out of harms way. After all, I’d hate my sinful work colleagues to get that email I wrote for them before I’m swept up

Radio signals received at 21:55:00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time / GMT) on Saturday confirmed the Phoenix Mars Lander had survived its difficult final descent and touchdown 15 minutes earlier. The signals took that long to travel from Mars to Earth at the speed of light.
Michael Griffin, the NASA Administrator noted that this was the first [...]