Archive for October, 2007

Something is the bee's knees if i is awesome. Why? Because that is where bees carry pollen. And we all know how awesome pollen is.

There were a surprising number of roses still more or less in bloom this late in October, including the Johann Strauss, the Barbra Streisand, the Acid Reflux and the Past Time (one of these strains was made up). But this wall of rose was sadly not, though no doubt the smell would have knocked me for a loop.

It still amuses me to no end that when bees are doing the thing that they do with flowers they are essentially the vehicle for two or more (many more) flowers to have sex with each other. As if that weren't enough, just before I took this photo there was another bee involved. But it was more discreet.

Mentioned in the liner notes of the Criterion "For All Mankind," which does this year's "In the Shadow of the Moon" one better by being soundtracked/scored by Brian Eno. This is the earliest known account of a (speculative) trip to the moon

Richard Box plants fluorescent tubes in the earth near electrical pylons. The electrical field around these structures powers the tubes. via vvork.

Desire Paths would be a great name for a band. Or for anything, really. My association with these is that college was overflowing with them.

Can't think of anything to say about this song, other than it's more or less perfect.

This one time I participated in a linguistic study that had me determine whether a sentence made grammatical and logical sense. After the hundredth or so determination, I started to feel like I was hallucinating. That's sort of what this site is like.

An exhaustive, or at least exhausting resource of movie titles. via cp.

Yes. Just what I wanted and for this very reason. Tracking John Munch appearances. I don't even like the character very much! But he's *everywhere.* And that means a little bit that Elmo and Lt. Giardello live in the same universe.

An ascending (descending?) measure of typical levels of visibility of heavenly bodies at night.

The list of artificial objects on the surface of the moon article has been sitting in my RSS reader for months. This is one level up.

I've been reading Baudolino over the weekend and it reminded me that whenever one reads Eco set in the medieval period, it's probably wise to have a list of heresies to refer back to every once in a while.