Some friends and I are going to see the Space Shuttle Launch. Good information about seeing a launch is hard to find, so I think I might post these links to sites that I found useful.
Last week, I found Stellarium a multi-platform easy-to-use program. the experience was excellent! It was so smooth to whip it around, adjust the magnitudes to match what I could see, and spot things in the sky that I had only read about in science fiction. I also like setting the clock forward and watching the stars spin. I now understand the “ecliptic,” which was always a mystery to me before.
The sea urchin one (a concept model, not actually available) supposedly bounces around so you have to chase it down to turn it off. The puzzle “explodes” the pieces so you have to find them and reassemble it to shut it off. They’re being blogged all over right now. I’ve often thought about what kind of alarm clock I could make that would force me to get up. Putting the alarm clock across the room does not present enough challenge to really wake me up. Maybe I should keep a Mountain Dew next to the bed and take a few gulps when I hit that first snooze bar.
Fungus Mungus is a new blog, about the same age as this one, written by a western English teacher in Japan. He’s blogging some of the interesting products and mistranslations that are common in Japan. Today’s feature is a “hand shredder,” in case you have any extra fingers you’d like to get rid of.