Month: August 2006

Dumped supermarket trolleys litter our rivers and canals. Now one artist is rescuing them… to create these incredible wire sculptures that celebrate our water wildlife…

This form of art has been around for a while.

Fun Canon web page that shows how Printing Lab Quality Photos At Home with the PIXMA Photo Lab is as easy as Ringing A Doorbell or Chewing Gum.

I now have several new diplomas that I can add to my resume.

The IBISEYE Risk Estimator approximates the value and number of buildings in the path of tropical storm-force and hurricane-force winds, based on the actual or predicted wind field.

Wenger, the company that makes the legendary Swiss Army Knives has introduced a 9-inch long, 2-pound “blade” which features every tool Swiss Army makes, 85 instruments in all.

Who doesn’t need a cigar cutter next to a bicycle chain rivet setter next to a golf divot repair tool?

If you’re interested in being the coolest Boy Scout on the block, call Wenger.

Wenger set the price at $1,200.

Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled is a national nonprofit serving quadriplegic and other people with severe spinal cord injuries or mobility-impairments by providing highly trained monkeys to assist with daily activities.

Gizmo

Mitch, Donna, Speedy, Pebbles, and Cathleen.

Just one easy question.

I saw Snakes on A Plane. It’s FUN.

Send a FREE personalized talking SNAKES ON A PLANE MESSAGE in the voice of SAMUEL L. JACKSON to someone you know.

Picture by Zingfu.

At their general meeting in Prague on August 24, 2006, the IAU membership voted to strip Pluto of its planetary status, making it a member of a new class of objects called “Dwarf Planets.” The solar system is now left with only eight planets, and an indeterminate number of smaller objects such as asteroids, comets, and KBOs, which will now be called “Small Solar System Objects.”
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In voting to scratch Pluto from the ranks of true solar planets the IAU rejected a proposal drawn up by special “Planet Definition” committee set up by the organization. The committee’s proposal would have recognized 12 planets in the solar system right now, with dozens of other planets likely to join the ranks in the coming years. The old nine-planet neighborhood we have grown accustomed to would have been replaced by a frequently changing crowd of planetary strangers. Instead, the IAU chose to eliminate the most questionable member of the planetary club and fix the number of solar planets once and for all on eight.

I think they made the right decision.

Leave a message for your mom on the fridge!

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