I came across this article in this week’s mailing from Physics World.  After listening to the Joy of Science from The Teaching Company I actually understood it too!  This stuff sounds pretty cool.  Researchers create ‘self-healing’ rubber Rubbery materials can be easily stretched, but it is not easy to mend them when they break, as  Read more »

This will teach me about trying to do contests.  We have four entries to vote on.  Here they are are in order of submission:   Chelle B. of http://www.theoffendedamerican.com/ Thomas L. of http://blog.thomaslaupstad.com/ Claire of http://crpitt.blogspot.com/ Uncle Loquacious from http://www.loquaciouscurmudgeon.net/ Please cast your vote for the sign you would most like to see in a  Read more »

I’ve had some major problems with some hardware this weekend so I am late starting the voting for the sign contest.  I will try to get the four candidates up for a vote tomorrow.

The war in Iraq, the collapse of the housing bubble, the far reaching Abramoff corruption scandal, the U.S. attorney firings, no-bid contracts for Halliburton, Cheney’s superduper top secret Energy Task Force, Halliburton’s KBR overcharging the army for fuel in Iraq, Tom DeLay’s PAC money laundering problem, Government produced imitation news-report videos, the Department of Education  Read more »

Brian got me a Wii for Christmas (I got him SIRIUS Radio for his long commute) and we have been playing it almost every day.  We have bought a few additional games for it but we keep coming back to the sports game that came with the unit.  We’ve tried other stuff, but we spend  Read more »