Did you know that on Pluto my weight is 4,2 kg (= 9,2 lb.) or on the sun I’m weighing 1732,6 kg (= 3819,7 lb.)? Or did you know that even though I’m 20 years down here, I’m only 0.68 Saturnian years? Or that my next birthday on Uranus (the planet) is Tuesday April the […]
Category: links
Link of the day: Girls Against Penguins
Since the release of NAAP’s manifesto, the Pamphlet of the Permanent Penguin Removal, I’ve grown more alert when it comes to spreading this for too long neglected message. So it is my privilige to introduce to you a certain webring that caught my attention: Girls Against Penguins!
New project: Kristiania blog
So, me and Kornelius have begun a new webproject in Norwegian that can be read over at http://kristiania.norge.cc.
Link of the day: Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
"After spending some time last month trying to develop alternate graphic presentations for kinematic ratios in winged flight, I decided to try to answer one of the timeless questions of science: just what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" Inspired by Monty Python, eh, Jonathan Corum? Read the article to see for yourself!
NAAP has dug up new evidence
The National Association Against Penguins (official webpage) has once again released breathtaking findings in their quest to abolish the freak that is the Penguin from the face of the earth. They’ve reached contact with undercover military photographer, known on the inside only as Cameron, who’s taken more than 150 photographs of penguins in military operations […]
I vote for Maddox!
I was dropping by Maddox @ xmission to see what he’s been up to lately and discovered that he’s joined politics by founding The Regressive Party. Now, I think we can all agree that it was a matter of time before Maddox finally went political on us, and by reading his manifesto right now, I […]
Thoughts on the future
Åsmund Skjæveland (from FIX) wrote this on his weblog some time ago. I think it is a nice round-up of our long-gone debate on the whole "WHOA! NASA’s on Mars!" ordeal; "More future. Big deal. Our space program amounts to… driving remote-controlled little buggys on Mars. Where are the space elevators? Where are the wheels? […]
Link of the day: Bryan Caplan's philosophical writings
The man behind The Anarchist Theory FAQ, Bryan Caplan, has written a great deal of other texts worth a look: Bryan Caplan’s "Some Writings on Philosophy" The especially selected quote of the day is written by Roman poet Terence: Homo sum, humani a me nihil alienum puto. I am a man, and nothing human is […]
Link of the day: Norwegian Bible from 1930
Yep. It’s the entire thing, there. Copyright outdated. Go ahead. http://home.no.net/harakiri/bibelen/
Best homepage of the day: Tufteland.org
This is the most giving, inspiring and fascinating homepage I’ve come across this week: go to http://tufteland.org