Loose Ends

Here are some links to stuff that’s caught my interest in the last couple of weeks:

For various reasons (chief among them: I’m an idiot) I wasn’t able to migrate my Starry Night astronomy software package over to my new pc. So I’m going to try out an open source version which looks to be adequate for my needs: http://www.stellarium.org/

If you are a Star Trek TOS fan, take the time to check out these “new” episodes masterminded by an obviously obsessed fan named James Cawley. Very large size downloads, but using Bit Torrent helps.

New Yorker magazine cartoon caption contest.
Astound yourself with how really unfunny you are.

My father-in-law Philip wondered if we were familiar with Parkour. Actually I see real world examples at work every day at quitting time. Phil, there’s a good example of Parkour craziness in the last James Bond film Casino Royale, which was a pretty good movie incidentally.

And the song "How We Operate" by Gomez is great.