Will and Beyond

Free Kids

03/08/10 @ 10:42AM EST
posted by will

Hollywood video wasn't doing well renting movies anymore, so they're trying their hand at adoption.

Want new releases?
Those are in aisle seven.
Right next to horror.

Godspeed.

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Snowed In

02/09/10 @ 6:39PM EST
posted by will

Where have I been? Playing in the snow!!! Snowpaclypse, snowmageddon, snoverkill: all fun words.

snowmap I'll post more of my own pictures later, but for now here's a great one from NASA. Also, in addition to grocery stores being ransacked for meat, etc, other goods were in demand.

[via: DCist]

I love snow so much
And this is a lot of snow
Snow! So happy! Snow!

Godspeed.

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Catch Up On LOST Before the Premeire Tonight

02/02/10 @ 12:34PM EST
posted by will

If you want to watch the premeire on time tonight, you don't have time to watch the whole series, even if you do it in one sitting. There's the one-hour clip show at 8pm (the 2-hour premeire doesn't actually start until 9pm).

Have you seen the show more recently than that, and just want a quick refresher? Have 8 minutes 15 seconds to spare? That's all you need.

The NYTimes put together an excellent linear timeline of LOST, as best that anyone possibly could linearize LOST.

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Chemists Make Bad Drug Dealers

01/28/10 @ 10:45AM EST
posted by will

I guess we better stick to production.

[via: SMBC]

Don't see the issue
It's proper nomenclature
Yay chemist humor

Godspeed.

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State of the Confederacy

01/27/10 @ 1:09PM EST
posted by will

"Well, we're still not a country anymore. BUT WE WILL RISE AGAIN. Thank you, citizens, and have another great year!"

[Photo: Flickr]
[Credit: @clickpopclick]

Would be more fitting
Since DC is south of the
Mason-Dixon line

Godspeed.

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Dinosaurs Ruined Everything

01/23/10 @ 6:49AM EST
posted by will

...for Emus and Ostriches. Research posted in Systemic Biology shows that the loss of flight ability closely correlates to the era of dinosaur extinction. With their primary predators gone, Ratites (the order of flightless birds that include the "ostrich, rheas, kiwi, emu, and cassowaries, along with extinct members, such as moa and elephant birds" gradually lost the ability to fly due to massive weight gain.

I for one anticipate that someday humans will become too fat to run or walk if our only predator ever dies out.

This development would eliminate the need for certain patterns of continental breakup. If these birds could once fly, we wouldn't need to have the continents once aligned in patterns in which they could walk from one to another where they are currently found.

[Photo: Flickr]
[Discovered: Telegraph]
[Via: @tweetscience]

Spielberg should have made
Flying ostriches, et al
In Jurassic Park

Godspeed.

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Abstract of the Day: Chemistry Yin-Yang

01/22/10 @ 12:33PM EST
posted by will

Chemistry of Materials just published: Symbiotic Coaxial Nanocables: Facile Synthesis and an Efficient and Elegant Morphological Solution to the Lithium Storage Problem.

Symbiosis leads to the yin-yang I suppose, and that's a cool picture of the coaxial nanocable (carbon nanotube coated with TiO₂.)

Lithium storage
Yin and yang, very zen-like
Pretty cable too

Godspeed.

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Betrayed by Ben Stein

01/18/10 @ 7:52PM EST
posted by will

For all of my life, I have had nothing but happy thoughts about Ben Stein. Good memories: people winning his money on Comedy Central with Jimmy Kimmel, and "Bueller? Bueller?" Then I saw this tweet:

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Just before I responded to her with "What's wrong with Ben Stein?" I decided to check his Wiki to see if I was missing something obvious. Wow, did I ever...

From Scientific American: "He and Expelled charge that scientists, in their rejection of religious explanations, have become as intolerant as Nazis."