Well, there was going to be a post today, but after spending 15 minutes collecting links and getting them formatted, but before I had a chance to save, Firefox decided to crash, taking the whole shebang with it. And I’m not much in the mood for redoing it. So I learned a very valuable lesson [...]

Star Trek news aplenty today, for some reason.

George Takei comes out of the closet
Shatner interview footage on Google Video: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five: this is all raw footage, but quite interesting
Also via Google Video, you can rock out with Shatner’s Lucy in the Sky
Here’s a review of the [...]

Short and sweet this week.

Potpourri

Rat outsmarts, eludes scientists: Perhaps the rat was running his own little experiment…
Dinosaurs Never Had Feathers
Tiny Humans Hunted Tiny Elephants? I have only one thing to say: Short people got no reason to live.
Chimps Can Keep Quiet: That puts chimps a step ahead of human children.
‘Zombie worms’ found off Sweden: [...]

Short and sweet this week.

Tenth Planet’s Moon Named Gabrielle: Normally, scientists are somewhat boring with their naming. These guys are pretty funny, though.
Dolphins Learn Batman Theme: Holy Porpoise, Batman!
Protein Gives Bald Mice Luxurious Locks: Good news for all those bald mice out there.
Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery Unraveled: Bruce Banner is elated!
Chasing Zodiac: My [...]

Ah, Wednesday: the bane of my existence. Anyhow, here’s the strange crap that’s infesting the world this week.

Nature’s Little Oddities

Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina: Dolphins with guns. Sounds like something that will come back to bite us in some dystopian future time.
Dog Flu Jumped From Horses: The flu [...]

Okay, so I took a couple of weeks off to visit the family, but it’s time to get back into the weird and strange things than have happened while I was goofing off.

Odd Astronomy and Space News

Supermassive Black Hole Confirmed: Man, that really sucks. Okay, easy joke.
Mars getting warmer, orbiter data suggests: Mars Republicans [...]

Yep, it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day!

It’s Wednesday! That means weirdness!

Cloning

First kittens for cloned wildcats: Man, cloned kitty wildcats are cuuuuuute!
Cloning Man’s Best Friend: Cloned puppies are also cuuuute!
CLONUS producers sue over ISLAND cloning: Cloned movies are so cuuuuute! Wait…

Nutty Religious Nuts

Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuela’s president: why does this man have a TV show? Shouldn’t he be arrested [...]