Stalking Venus

Every now and again, I come across someone who doesn’t believe in global warming. They say it’s hype or some sort of scientific conspiracy to um… well, to do something or other. Maybe get funding or recognition or something.
Well, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so check this out. These are [...]

This is a photograph of the concrete dome on Runit Island. The island, which is part of Enewetak Atoll was fitted with its unusual concrete cap because of the simple small fact that beneath it lie 111,000 cubic yards of radioactive soil and debris from the Bikini and Rongelap atoll nuclear tests.

The dome covers the [...]

The UK Daily Mail newspaper is reporting that a man has been arrested and sentenced to 20 weeks in prison for whistling the Addams Family themetune.
Admittedly he did it every single time he saw his neighbours over a four year period, which is probably enough to drive just about anybody insane.
“Leopold Wrobel harassed the pensioners [...]

In some bizarre news from celebrity gossip site, Defamer, Michael Jackson was recently mobbed by a bunch of crazy, wild-eyed screaming fans of the new Watchmen film.
One of the main characters in the new superhero/antihero movie based on the DC comic is a cloaked and white-masked dude called Rorshach who wears a black fedora hat.
Unfortunately, [...]

I’m vaguely back online again. Had a bad chest cold for the last few days, so that’s why you’re getting ’sick of the day’ instead of ‘pic of the day’. Yes, it’s really corny, but then I’m on flu meds. I’m allowed.

This is a photo of the suckers on the arm of a squid, captured with an electron microscope.

However, for anyone who’s played Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers, these look an awful lot like the Pirhana Plants that keep trying to eat Mario and his friends!
Coincidence? I think not!
I wonder if there’s a microscopic Mario down there [...]

No, don’t ask me. I don’t know WTF it is either…