I would just like to say I hate spiders. I REALLY hate them. I have learnt that my somewhat calm demeanor in the face of spiders that enables me to calmy go ‘dad there is a spider in here please kill it’ is all BULLSHIT when a huge spider crawls out of my wardobe and stares at me for ten… Read more →
Category: science and nature
go to this site and you can check out where a few things are floating around up in space – right now i am looking at the International Space Station and the Hubble telescope‘s locations. some other sites that have similar info my friends have given me – 1 2 (second one is nifty because you can tell it where… Read more →
Letting forests grow on abandoned farmland and logging grounds may do more than beautify the countryside — they may be soaking up greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, scientists said on Thursday. – der! you think? Read more →
dr karl and belly button lint
i have found a few blogs wondering over the weirdness of the belly button lint experiment by Dr Karl (which i could show if my archives were working – that i blogged a while ago now. yay me!). every thursday on triple j – dr karl spends an hour on air discussing all things science. people can ring up and… Read more →
i dont get it. i read the about page but what exactly are they trading? what are ‘greenhouse gas emissions offsets’ anyway? bless the google for is spews knowledge like a new years reveller spews other things around 2am on new years day. a bit of info about the greenhouse gas emission doohickey thing and how companies are trying to… Read more →
Cattle dogs
Just looking at a page on cattle dogs. We have a very adorable cattle dog. She is somewhat mental – but loads of fun. She’s not like a lot of cattle dogs – she is pretty much grey all over – no golden bits at all. She does have a few spots where there are a group og white hairs… Read more →
sciencey things
After listening to Karl today on Triple J I was feeling a bit science-y. CSIRO SETI Australia Couple of links about different Antarctic research things. The Hubble takes pretty pictures and we all go ‘ooh’! Also Karl gets asked the important questions and is now on a quest to discover why belly button lint is the colour it is. Read more →
Spacey things
Pretty pictures of space thanks to the nifty linking work over on Phancy: Pretty nebula thing called the Cats Eye – looks more like a flower. Solar filament– looks like a firey elemental reaching out to grab you! Having a bit of a look through this site myself now – doesn’t space just make you go ‘ooh-aah!’? I love looking… Read more →
Holy SHIT! I am currently listed number 22 in the most updated blogs! How cool is that! I usually only add stuff in the wee hours of the morn! Surely there must be much busier people than me blogging away! This is fascinating! Nature is so cool! (from Swallowing Tacks) Read more →