image (which i hope it’s ok to leech and post) of HURRICANE RITA, from steve gregory’s TROPICAL WEATHER BLOG at WEATHER UNDERGROUND* , at 4:45AM GMT SEPT 21, 2005

quotes: “the western side of the eyewall is ‘highlighted&#821[…]

ok it is the morning after my ear-candle experiment

and i have to report i. my ear is still mildly blocked (as before) plus also ii. i am not in any way suffering from burns iii. my hair did not catch fire iv. my flat did not catch fire
OTOSAN (wh[…]

On a documentary about space travel on the Discovery channel today: “The concept of a warp drive is like a moving walkway in the airport – you compress space-time in front of you, and expand it behind you.”
Yes, exactly like a movin[…]

Another rub pun, and another link to a BBC News story, as, Frobjous Day, the brits prove themselves best at pretending to be human in the annual Loebner Prize.
Unfortunately, the Jabberwacky site is a little over-subscribed at the mo, so i don’[…]

It is like The Butterfly Effect, but the use of frogs in pregnancy tests has now spread a fungal disease which is wiping out amphibians. Hooray for old wives tales!
The wholesale importation of one species to another continent alarmingly has this kin[…]

So this ananova story says. I assume it must be due to them accidentally putting their fags out in their eyes.[…]

I caught an edition of Eureka yesterday morning on BBC2 in which a younger, less assured Ferne Cotton and a Scottish lass who I vaguely recognised, tried to convince us they knew about science. This was particularly unconvincing re Ms Cotton, who is […]

Inventor fuels car with dead cats
“this practice is outlawed in Germany”. Killjoy.Presumably this was outlawed under a generic law that would have made Simon Bond’s hi-hi-hilarious books also illegal. The more specific “und di[…]

Don’t Dumb Me Down pleads Ben Goldacre, decrying reporting of science stories, railing against straw humanities graduates misunderstanding and misreporting science stories
and
Today’s front page main story which seems to show that humanit[…]

For those of you who missed it last week: It’s The End Of Life As We Know It. But wait, great news for all our readers, with the abolition of the regular science supplement, the Guardian’s commitment to science actually improves. How, you[…]