Etchings on the Attic Wall

Dear god, the badgers are back!  This time, they are in the holiday spirit!  Another tune to fill your head.  Enjoy the madness.

Want to send a different kind of holiday message this year?  How about having a penguin carve it in the snow for your special loved ones?  This web site does just that.  Go nuts.

Need a digital sign?  Or perhaps you need a new way to deliver messages to people?  Try out Signbot.  It allows you to create your very own animated scrolling LED sign.  You can then save it off as an animated GIF and use it where ever you want.  Yet another way to waste time [...]

On December 7th 2009, Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo, the first commercial passenger spacecraft.  This is the successor to the SpaceShipOne prototype that made history last year by becoming the first privately manned craft to reach space.  There are already about 300 people who have paid the $200,000 ticket to ride on this spacecraft when it [...]

If you are an avid reader of mine, then you have probably noticed that I post a lot about astronomy.  Here is another good site called “Stellarium“.  This is actually an application that you can download.  It is a free open source planetarium for your computer.  And it is very feature rich!  They have a [...]

Here’s a game that will keep you coming back for more.  A simple first-person shooter called Pukis.  They are creatures infesting Deep Space Station G-7.  They make a fun blood splatter when you kill them.  Enjoy.

This is a new luxury hotel by the Trump organization and the first such one that has been built in Waikiki in decades.  It is 38 stories tall and has about 462 rooms, some of which are privately owned.  The amenities sound fantastic!  Here are some of them:

wine cellar on site
spa on site
luxury torches in [...]

This site, hosted by USAToday, shows a Flash animation of how the International Space Station was assembled.  It shows the dates that each module was added as well as future additions.  You can click on each section for a more detailed look.

The Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in southwestern Germany.  It is definitely one of the greatest forests of Germany and borders France, Switzerland, and the Neckar River.  The place sounds evil, but it actually got its name from the large concentration of pine trees which makes the forest look black from a distance.
Tourism [...]

Univers Resolved is a 3-D alphabet invented by Ji Lee using a geometric formula.  Its goal is to provide an alternative to the trend developed over thousands of years of reading from left to right and from top to bottom as is the case with the Latin alphabet.  This linear thinking also spills over into [...]