Just found this cool code snippet which shows our Flickr pictures as a slideshow within this blog post. Enjoy:

Found here.

My Dad sent me a link to this picture: Europe at Night, found at the incredibly cool NASA Astronomy Picture Of The Day site.

If you're into space pictures and stuff, that's the place to go, also check out:

Blue Marble

Celestia, an incredible space simulation

Why smart people defend bad ideas - This is a bit long, but just skimming it smarted (ha ha) a little, because I see myself in this article a few times too many.

Smart people, or at least those whose brains have good first gears, use their speed in thought to overpower others. They’ll jump between assumptions quickly, throwing out jargon, bits of logic, or rules of thumb at a rate of fire fast enough to cause most people to become rattled, and give in.

"Brains with good first gears." I like that.

Wow, this is powerful:

More, an Academy-Award nominated short film by Mark Osborne.

Coolest. Gadget. EVER.

USB Powered Air Darts. Aim and fire with your mouse. C’mon, wage your very own war with weapons of mass compression. You know you want to. £19.50.

Powered by your mac or pc, you’ll have hours of flying fun with these USB air darts. Let the mission begin! * Control the aim and the firing mechanism of the darts via your computer mouse * Cylindrical base * 3 darts * USB powered * Software included

Unfortunately hopelessly sold out. :'-( I want one. *sob*

Found via BoingBoing, via The Red Ferret

Stephi got Civilization IV for her birthday, and it ROCKS. We've been playing it quite a bit (it is dangerously addictive, though - one of the if not THE most addictive game(s) I've ever played... "One...more...round...*yawn*").

Anyways, it has an extremely cool intro song called "Baba Yetu" for the opening menu, you can get it here, courtesy of civfanatics: http://www.civfanatics.net/downloads/civ4/music/BabaYetu.mp3. Very epic, kind of mysterious, very catchy.

Well, I just found a page that explains the lyrics here.

And...it's the Lord's prayer in Swahili! That's friggin' cool! :)

You know, there are some Flash games out there that are really a lot of fun.

But, these games at the official Harry Potter site are mind-numbingly horrible. I mean, they're so boring that a four-hour lecture on the epistomological differences of left from right would be more exciting.

But here's the killer: Try one of the games out, and remember how many points you have after enduring a half a minute of the game. Now, look at the high score table on the main page. Un. Believable.

Found via Game|Life

I am an...

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

What are you?

BREAD IS DANGEROUS.

Here's a fun way to test your general Bible knowledge (if you even want to): 2005 Bible Content Exam

Some of those questions are real tricky. :)

Found via Todd-from-Amsterdam's blog "being free"