signal boost.

This morning's Bad Astronomy post includes a video animation counting every nuclear bomb explosion from 1945 to 1998, on a map of the world. It's creepy as hell. Give a look.

a different signal boost.

My friend the_emu posted this some years ago, and I couldn't find where, but fortunately Uncle Google helped me find it all on my own, and it's a much less unsettling video than this morning's nuclear ticker, isn't it?

Evolution in sixty seconds.

the downhill side of the week

A couple weeks ago a friend recommended the wondrous Salux cloth, calling it "the ne plus ultra of exfoliation". As exfoliating is relevant to my interests, I picked one up at the HMart the other day.

Friends, it is the ne plus ultra, the magnum opus, the sine qua non, and other Latin phrases as well. The price at that link is, at least here by me, misleading - mine was $3.99 instead of $2.99 - but otherwise, damn. It's not exfoliating, it's defoliating. It's a nylon kitchen scourer for your skin. It's scrubbing your face with the hooky side of the Velcro. It's awesome. Get to your nearest Asian grocery and get one today.


Oh, haha! Funny thing happened this weekend. My mother and I were shopping, and we stopped up in the lingerie department of Nordstrom, as is my custom - I always go and check out the sale rack, because bras in sizes that are useful to me are shockingly expensive. There is a big Event of some kind going on, and there are multiple sale racks - and can I find the size I'm after? I cannot. One of the girls finally saw me tacking about and asked if she could help me, and I said I was having trouble finding the size I wanted, because that rack said "32-34" and had only 32's, and this one said "34-36" and had only 36's, so where was a person to look to find 34? And she asked me ( what you'll agree, if you know me, is the funniest question I've ever heard. )

30 Days of TV meme:

Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you though you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you

( Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than five times )

( eighteen more days )