Wednesday, August 18, 2004
- An official list of words banned from SCRABBLE™ [via Crescat Sententia]
- Four of Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman's Douglas Robb Memorial lectures on physics at the University of Auckland in free streaming video format
- Richard Scalzo's fascinating chapters of his unfinished math-meets-physics methods book, "The Hitchhiker's Guide"
- Cassini-Huygens discovers two new moons orbiting Saturn [via The Register] and related, "Jupiter and Saturn: Chalk and Cheese"
- A blonde New Jersey McGreevey joke [via Traveling In Style]
- The Plotz Thickens: Allegations Gay Gov's BF [Golan "I Am A Heterosexual" Cipel] Was Cheating On Him With Another Man [via 365Gay.com]
- Memorable quotes from Donnie Darko (2001) [via IMDb]
- See What You Share: after you see this, you may think twice about using P2P on your computer - and Rum and Monkey's "Which Horrible Affliction Are You?" quiz [both via Snazzykat] What affliction am I? Ahem...rabies.
- I did much worse than I thought on the clever Alt-Rock-Lyric-Or-SPAM? Quiz [on Begging to Differ]
- Recalling Julia Child, Oyster-Loving Idealist: nice extended
obituarycelebration of her life [New York Times, reg. req., via EclecticEveryday] - The Meow Mix Café for cats opens in New York City [via Freespace]
- The Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films [on Presence]