Sight Unseen : Science, UFO Invisibility and Transgenic Beings

Read this book as a lark. It actually had some cool ideas around trying to figure out how the strange stuff that gets reported actually might happen. A dig into quantum mechanics, superconductive levitation, faster than light communication, etc. A fun read.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743412184/qid=1115839067/sr=8-3/ref=pd_csp_3/102-3631511-4817768?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Dr Who Star Quits

Actor Christopher Eccleston has quit as Doctor Who after just one episode of the new series has been screened, the BBC has confirmed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4395849.stm

Bruichladdich 15yr

Very elegant scotch. Sweet, light, vanilla notes. Very clear looking as color is not added to the blend. Small amount of peaty aftertaste.
http://www.bruichladdich.com/bottlings_reviews_fifteen_include.htm

New StrongBad Email

Long Pants!
http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail127.html

The Simple Art of Japanese Calligraphy

Very cool coffee table book on the different calligraphy styles and how to put them on everyday objects -- from t-shirts to pillowcases.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1402714394/qid=1111523549/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-5501705-6320800

The Consciousness Revolution

Very cool book. A discussion between Ervin Laszlo (an important scientist), Sanislave Grof (a new-age "transpersonalist"), and Peter Russel (ecologist and philosopher) debate art, science, religion and consciousness as part of the world around us. Includes a specific meme: that the world is in trouble and if we can change the 80s style "me-ness" of people we can save it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1928586090/qid=1111523312/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/002-5501705-6320800?v=glance&s=books

13 Things That Dont Make Sense

It was 37 seconds long and came from outer space. On 15 August 1977 it caused astronomer Jerry Ehman, then of Ohio State University in Columbus, to scrawl "Wow!" on the printout from Big Ear, Ohio States radio telescope in Delaware. And 28 years later no one knows what created the signal. "I am still waiting for a definitive explanation that makes sense," Ehman says.Coming from the direction of Sagittarius, the pulse of radiation was confined to a narrow range of radio frequencies around 1420 megahertz. This frequency is in a part of the radio spectrum in which all transmissions are prohibited by international agreement. Natural sources of radiation, such as the thermal emissions from planets, usually cover a much broader sweep of frequencies. So what caused it?
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524911.600

Cosmic String Found

Could two lookalike galaxies, barely a whisker apart in the night sky, herald a revolution in our understanding of fundamental physics? Some physicists believe that the two galaxies are the same - its image has been split into two, they maintain, by a "cosmic string"; a San Andreas Fault in the very fabric of space and time. If this interpretation is correct, then CSL-1 - the name of the curious double galaxy - is the first concrete evidence for "superstring theory": the best candidate for a "theory of everything", which attempts to encapsulate all the phenomena of nature in one neat set of equations.
http://www.rednova.com/news/space/132303/finding_the_ultimate_theory_of_everything/index.html