Posts tagged “Mars”
Venus and Mars / Rock Show
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- Fun Stuff
- Nick Holmes posts cute and funny things.
I’ve always wondered exactly how potholes are formed. Now I know.- Need some cool wrapping paper? Try rapping paper.
- Thinking about the Monty Hall Paradox always makes my head hurt.
- Do you feel like you’re too old to start getting into shape? Listen to Charles Eugster, who is a champion weightlifter: “I was already rowing six times a week, and there didn’t seem any harm in pushing myself a bit harder to rebuild my muscles. So in my late-80s I joined a bodybuilding club.”
- I, for one, am very happy to get to go to Mars. You can go, too.
- Sports
- I love this photograph of a guy painting the hash marks on Florida Field.
- Agree +1 with this tweet from @drsaturday: “I like Tim Tebow but I don’t think I can convey in 140 characters the visceral hate I have for this commercial.”
- Parenting
- The British newspaper The Independent has published a list of 50 books every child should read. YMMV.
- The website PoshTots has a section devoted to luxury playhouses, which cost upwards of $10,500. Comment unnecessary.
- Don’t Touch the Screen is a podcast for webnerds with kids. (iTunes)
- Ten Jaw-Droppingly Awesome Infographics on Education is exactly what it says on the tin.
- Only XKCD could produce such an emotionally-charged comic strip about the Mars rover Spirit. (How can you not feel badly about that poor little robot?)
- Where do all my taxes go? The New York Times has a great infographic that displays the recently-proposed 2011 US budget.
- You’ll find bunches of (mostly technical) fascinating links if you subscribe to my delicious feed; but in case you don’t and it’s the sort of thing that interests you, check out:
- Why the iPad will fail and help Windows 7 to succeed is required reading for anyone that is just blindingly stupid. It’s perfect for brilliant minds who also think the government is secretly poisoning us with fluoride and there’s really no hard evidence linking cigarettes with lung cancer.