The Evolution of Alphabets. Interesting. Shows the history of several different alphabets – Latin, Greek, Arabic, etc.

Very nice. There are a couple of sentences that I absolutely love in that post. Swimming like koi in the mind’s pool, they slip, tickle, and transform the view. I like that sentence just for the sentence itself. To be honest, I don’t think much of Brian Andreas’ drawings. I don’t have a very high [...]

I thought I’d try this theme for a while. It’s called Twilight. I might not stick with it for long. I don’t like the comments link. See it? It’s the number beside the title. I don’t like that at all. Also, the text is too small. I might try to tinker with it later. Or [...]

Many amazing photos of drops and splashes in water and other liquids with links to several flickr sets. These are some of the best I’ve seen.

A flickr set of science tattoos. I don’t like tattoos at all. They’re body graffiti – like treating one’s own skin like a wall in a bad neighborhood. But when they’re this geeky I can be more than usually tolerant. Via Gravity Lens and Short Sharp Science.

Brian Micklethwait: I talked recently with someone who is just under half my age, about how wearisome the internet is, to her. To her, it’s all just drudgery. For me, even word processing still retains its magic. I like the last two short sentences of that post too but I’ll let you go there to [...]

The 50 Greatest Fictional Weapons of All Time. I’d love to have a point-of-view gun myself. It didn’t make the list. Via In4mador!

Here’s a neat bookshelf room-divider. Via Geekologie

Some interesting pictures of a beehive in a bell jar. Via Dark Roasted Blend

A quote found at Dustbury, in that rotating quote thingy: When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. – Casey Stengel Interesting. I wonder how old you have to get before you start [...]

One of the calendars that I mentioned earlier features art by Carol Dyer. It occurred to me sometime after I posted that to see if she has a website. This style of art has grown on me over the years. I used to not care much for it but now it seems much more appealing [...]

I finished reading Gridlinked by Neal Asher almost two weeks ago and never got around to mentioning it. It was a fun read – adventure, action, a little humor and hardly any technobabble. Now I’m reading Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, recommended to me by Number One Son. It’s not really my sort of thing [...]

I haven’t gotten into Christmas Shopping Mode yet. Christmas is less than a month away? Oh my! Already? Just a few weeks ago it was still summer. I have very few ideas about what to buy. Number One Son is always easy to shop for because he has very definite opinions and he’s also wonderfully [...]

Next Generation home theatre. (Thanks, Scott) Bored Night – a blog full of photos of strange and fascinating stuff. Great lighthouse photo. Be sure to read the photographer’s note. (BR) Castle builders. And, on the same blog, behives. Both very interesting. Lovepixel – huge kid’s book style landscape. Fun to explore but a little bit [...]

Well, here it is. I haven’t figured out how to edit the “theme” yet. I don’t even know how to add links and pictures to the sidebar. I’m not happy with this at all but I want to get on with more or less normal blogging. Hopefully, at some point in the future, I will [...]