The O’Blog

Want to know what that song was in a commercial you saw? Here you go:
http://www.adtunes.com/

Here's a nice little essay in both summary and long form that tries to delve into the character of Tom Bombadil. Just who is he? He left out one option that I read elsewhere that he doesn't touch on and that is that he's The Reader.
http://tolkien.slimy.com/essays/Bombadil.html
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Want to absolutely blow your mind? Then watch The Elegant Universe. It was a special just recently aired on NOVA on PBS. If you missed it, like I did, they've placed online each of the three episodes in either QT or Real format and broken into segments about 5 minutes each. [...]

To continue with the space theme, here's a real life astronomer who rips into all forms of astronomy/science that appear in movies, tv, media, etc. mainly because, well…. it's always wrong. It's a pretty fun read and also has articles on various commonly asked questions. This is the page I got the two [...]

I had always assumed it was atmospheric refraction, but apparently the issue of why the moon is so huge when rising (the sun as well) or setting has never really been satisfactorily solved. Here are a couple of pages offering possibilities. The first being rather short and to the point (with a seeming [...]

Ever seen someone claim that you can only balance an egg on the equinox? How did that even get started? Well, here you go:
http://www.clarkfoundation.org/astro-utah/vondel/equinoxver.html

In Alaska, the sun set today. It won't rise until January 23. As much as I'd love to see that, I think that would seriously screw with my sleep habits.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/11182003_bb_sunset.html

I remember the last time Rick was here during a football game. Same Rick as always. Loving the UW, loving the atmosphere and loving the attitudes of a football game. He claimed that nowhere are there fans like here saying that down in Gator country, they'd just as soon slash your tires [...]