• RT: @olidax: China copies Star Trek Logo for it’s National Space Program? http://tinyurl.com/r2h2ze #
• happy towel day! remember: don’t panic! http://www.towel-day.com/en/ (via @olidax) #
• think i might watch the “towelie” episode of south park tonight, to celebrate t-day :) #
• http://twitpic.com/5y5xb – #towelday and #bike09 :) #
• the science news cycle: http://is.gd/BlVO #
• RT: @zefrank: HardTimes :: coolest illusion you will ever see! http://bit.ly/vm2oD #
• RT: @macbruski: Incredible 3D murals by artist John Pugh http://tr.im/mpW1 (via @mocost) #
• RT: @ICHCheezburger: #LOLcat If you say moo one more time http://tinyurl.com/r6mkpx #
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it’s may 31st 2009, which means i’m exactly 8888¹ days old! :)
see for yourself:

wolfram alpha: 1985-01-29, screenshot

now get the togas out and celebrate! :)
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a week ago, i drove past a cornfield with so much poppy in it, it could have easily been considered an opium field with a little corn.
it was so beautiful, i got off the bike and spent the next 15 minutes trying to capture the scene.

panorama: corn field with poppy (papaver rhoeas)

just now, while uploading, i tried to remember where exactly that field was. i ended up using google earth to compare the lanscape and mountains, and retraced the location in no time: the area just east of volders, austria.

[view photos: cornfield panoramas]

in the forests of venezuela, there’s a rare frog that offers views i never dreamt of: the glass frog (cochranella antisthenesi) is partly transparent and lets you see directly into its interior.

in this picture by h. & h.j. koch, you can see a female and her eggs.

more information on the family of glass frogs (wikipedia): de, en

whale wars season 2 is coming up on june 5th in the US, and they’ve released a trailer and some clips on youtube:

(via eric)

A towel, [the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value.
You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth;
wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

happy towel day!

• regular tv vs. hdtv – http://is.gd/Ag9r #
• RT: @Richard_Dawkins: “Disappearance of the Neanderthals solved: modern humans ate them.”- http://is.gd/AFn8 #
• xkcd on shark tagging. good one! http://is.gd/AUEr #
• racist camera: http://is.gd/AMpZ #
• RT: @olidax: If you’re a superhero, Wolfram Alpha might be super useful. http://tinyurl.com/r2dkzo #
• icanhascheezburger: “.jaypg” – http://is.gd/Afgd #
• cool t-shirt: mario get’s a fix. http://is.gd/BlOa #
• roflrazzi: pull it! http://is.gd/BsTb #
• “the link” documentary trailer – http://is.gd/BsW7 #
• RT: @NASA: Video highlights of the Hubble release taped from the flight deck is now on line at http://tinyurl.com/p23so6 #
• short skynews-clip on the found missing link: http://is.gd/BAIT #thelink #
• http://twitpic.com/5k3an – google celebrates the presentation of the missing link fossil, darwinius masillae #
• an engineer’s guide to cat yodeling – http://is.gd/AZF2 #
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