Dinosaurs: now in color! Scientists can analyze well-preserved fossilized feathers and, by the shape of the melanosomes, determine what color the feathers were in life. They've decided that the most primitive feathered dinosaur known, Sinosauropteryx, was a redhead ( Read more... )

Happy Robert Burns Day! I missed my holiday alert email last weekend (it's the only way I ever remember anything) so I wasn't prepared and will probably have my little Burns supper later in the week.

I thought I'd John Barrowman it up this year, especially since raebird pointed me to a video last year of Barrowman explaining to an American audience about ( Read more... )

I have not caught up on a LOT of online type things from last weekend and this week, and indeed from all through the summer - I apologize. They're all still on my lists. In the meantime, here are some Good Things. I keep a running list, and I must not have posted any in awhile, because the first one is a month old.

* This granddad knitted pink and ( Read more... )

I have been watching a movie that's making me sad and lonely, and what better to do when you're lonely than snuggle up to the internet in the middle of the night? So I am choosing from among my unposted posts, and tonight I choose "good things."

* Tiny tiny baby puppy, adorable baby seahorses, and praying mantis thrill.

* Melanie Roach: mother of ( Read more... )

Squee. I finished Scott the Bear, my first crocheted thingie! Please convince me that John Barrowman doesn't need this just because Lion Brand named the pattern Scott.

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Naoko Mori sings with foul-mouthed puppets!

a) adorable
b) singing! Add this to the facts that Gareth David-Lloyd... is comfortable in front of a microphone, Burn Gorman is a Human Beatbox (that link isn't Burn, but oh how I wish I could find one), and it's nearly impossible to *keep* John Barrowman from singing, and you see where I'm going, right ( Read more... )

Good things from this week, in chronological order:

1. Watching a British WWII vet describe the moment he saw the cliffs of Dover after being evacuating from Dunkirk in the little ships. He said after the chaos and death across the channel, it was so peaceful, and they wept, and he kissed the ground. His old voice as he told the story was a rough, ( Read more... )

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A boiling teakettle is a bad place to put your finger. /wiser now

Grooming my TiVo's To Do list today, I discovered an item called Shark Attack 3: Megalodon. "Uh?" I thought, because nowhere in the description could I find the keywords APOCALYPSE, SCOTLAND, or CURLING. But then I noticed the first actor listed: BARROWMAN, JOHN ( Read more... )