h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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?chanID=sa003&articleID=000C79B4-EA89-1069-AA8983414B7F0000

Thanks for all the links!

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

Rho

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

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

> 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

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

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

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

Heard it rather than seen it!

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

Rho

Interesting rather than fun (nature vs nurture):
http://www.plosbiology.org/archive/1545-7885/2/4/pdf/10.1371_journal.pbio.0020101-L.pdf

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

...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).

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

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

Rho