Archive for March, 2006

Sons of Kings

Here's an interesting DNA tidbit. Many of us may be descendants of supposed mythical Irish king dating back to the 5th century.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0120_060120_irish_men.html
That, of course, came from a link where I was reading about The Genographic Project, which aims to test at least 100,000 of us in order to create a database of genetic markers [...]

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Email is back

As the title says… see front page for more info.

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damn bugs

I have no idea when it happened, but I'm a little peeved I didn't notice it sooner, or that perhaps someone would have pointed it out to me, but that might be reaching. Anyways, at some point the photo comments were deleted and an old copy of the script that creates them was being [...]

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New Music

I feel a little odd right now. I actually clicked a google adsense link, and I'm so glad I did. I was looking at my last.fm page, and this ad was sitting there about a band, asking if they were the next Rush. I had to check it out.
The Reverse [...]

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Irish-Americans Gear Up For ‘The Reinforcin’ O’ The Stereotypes’

from The Onion

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fargin’ snow

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last.fm

I think a while back (like 2 or 3 years) I had found some site that allowed you to upload your xml data from iTunes and it parsed it, analyzed it, and showed other people who had listening habits similar to yours. Needless to say, it was obvious where I fell, so I wasn't [...]

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Largest ever Hubble portrait

Here's an orgasmic moment for the space geek. A 51 image composite from Hubble creating a 12,392px x 15,852px image of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) weighing in as a 450MB tif (or other more manageable viewing sizes). Take that for a wall sized poster! For as astonishingly huge as that is, every [...]

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Exercise your music muscle

I can't remember if I posted the first iteration of this little game put out by Virgin, but here's the next step. Or perhaps it's the first step and the other one was just some promotional poster that everyone got hooked on back in November or so. Anyways, what we have here is [...]

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