Here is a full day of displacement activity. Download it for your very own planetarium. It’s open source and free.
http://www.stellarium.org/ Snowstorm paralyses Washington DC and eastern US - Well, with all of the hoopla about the big snowstorm we haven’t gotten one snowflake. :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8501246.stm Kylecassidy did. Go look at his pretty pictures
http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/579820.html Here are pics of Washington -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8501681.stm Loved him as Lord Peter Wimsey
Actor Ian Carmichael dies at 89
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8502006.stm You know, I am beginning to thinking that
grain_damaged has passed on her crochet karma to me. I knit up a swatch of the lace yarn in the pattern mention yesterday and I didn’t like it, so…it got frogged again. The search continues.
Bits and Pieces
Rude Awakening
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/rude-awakening_b_436384.html Monsanto: The World's Poster Child for Corporate Manipulation and Deceit - Part 1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/monsanto-the-worlds-poste_b_427035.html GMOs and Organ Damage
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/gmos-and-organ-damage.html World's oldest monastery restored
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8500091.stm More cat owners 'have degrees' than dog-lovers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8501042.stm Auklets and penguins: birds use feathers 'to touch'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8500000/8500620.stm Astronauts to install a window on the world
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jonathanamos/2010/02/the-cupola-the-window-on-the-w.shtml Shackleton's whisky recovered from South Pole ice - humm? Wonder what it will taste like since it has been aging away all those years under the ice? Yep, would mind giving it a try. :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8499931.stm Sea drifters - must watch audio slideshow
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8498786.stm What is a light year?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8493707.stm Five Minutes With: Sir Ian McKellen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8501031.stm Brides battle for bargain dress
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8501756.stm?ls Recycling human waste in India to improve sanitation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8500382.stm Pair marry with 23 bridesmaids
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8477421.stm ClickBits: Tech talk with LJ Rich
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8501578.stm The non-existent tags
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