Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 5, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 281

Two more links from one of the most prolific off-site collectors (my comments though ).

"It's the tribbles, sir. They're in the quadrotriticale.":
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/du-poc033004.php

"Who's a clever birdie":
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?ch...000C79B4-EA89-1069-AA8983414B7F0000

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 5, 2004 by Rho This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 282

Thanks for all the links!

*shakes head and laughs at "Escher's "Relativity" in LEGO"*

Rho

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 5, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 283

I have quite a lot of Escher and quite a lot of lego. I've never owned a piece of Escher in lego though, unless you count my pet "curl-ups" (= woodlice) for whom I built a lego building.

People have been comparing smileys on another site. Many were rude or like the ones I linked before but this one is rather harmless and funny:
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/images/smilies/stuck.gif

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 7, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 284

A pretty graphic link:
http://www.math.smith.edu/~vvouille/GAL/movadn.html

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 15, 2004 by Rho This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 285

> http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/images/smilies/stuck.gif

I wonder how often that smiley's actually used...


> http://www.math.smith.edu/~vvouille/GAL/movadn.html

*tries not to be hypnotised by the three spinning helices*


Rho

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 15, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 286

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/378/12092_alien.html

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 16, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 287

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3631889.stm

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 18, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 288

Have you tried this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_jelly_babies

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 19, 2004 by Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 289

Heard it rather than seen it!

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 19, 2004 by Rho This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 290

I've smelled it, heard it and seen the after-effect of it!

Rho

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 21, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 291

Interesting rather than fun (nature vs nurture):
http://www.plosbiology.org/archive/.../10.1371_journal.pbio.0020101-L.pdf

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 21, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 292

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_366856.htm

I'm siding with the brush hypothesis for now, since other birds are already known to use pecking as a mechanism to remove (or cause the ejection of) the packets of rivals before depositing their own.

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 22, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 293

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1092282.htm

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 23, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 294

"Hot hot hot" as the lizard says in the advert:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3648283.stm

Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 23, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 295

Better link:
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040419/040419-8.html

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 28, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 296

..._<@o" ..._<@o"
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/scienc.../04/27/bc.giantsnails.ap/index.html

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted Apr 28, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 297

Almost a mini lava-lamp:
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040426/040426-5.html

NB I "grew" some weird stuff primarily with iron salts once. Again it looked very organic. So between us we've got the basic blood types in the chemistry.

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted May 4, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 298

...and very much on the other side of sanity, here's a wide-ranging but more coherent than average(?) conspiracy site:
http://www.bibleufo.com/

Best(!) bits seen so far are in the statement of "The Work" and the link from there to "The Mark of the Beast" (identifying a specific product).

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted May 8, 2004 by SEF This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 299

Poor thing, caught in the act:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040503/earlyinsect.html

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Subject: Fun stuff Posted May 9, 2004 by Rho This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 300

Ooh - thanks for all the links! Especially the one to http://www.nature.com/nsu/040426/040426-5.html - that was very interesting...

Rho

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