Archive | July, 2011
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Welcome to the Chicken Strip

Las Vegas has the Strip. Paris has the Champs-Élysées. Chicago has the Magnificent Mile. And soon College Station will have its own stretch of notoriety.

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Friday Night Videos: Gamma House 2.0

You may think you have a lot of ceramic lobsters and fishnet hose-wearing fish in your house, but you’ve got nothing on this lady.

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Wordless Wednesday: Evening skies

The Dog and I like to look at the clouds during our evening walks. (Well, I do at least.) Here’s what we’ve seen this week.

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Research deals a blow to the prospects of a Timecop sequel

After years of speculation that individual photons might be able to travel faster than the speed of light, new research shows that they’re bound by the same restriction as the rest of known existence – therefore making the prospect of time travel quite a bit more remote.

Unless you’ve got a TARDIS, of course. Or a starship that you can slingshot around the sun. Or a mullet and that cheap sled thing from Timecop.

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Wordless Wednesday: Horse and candles

Recreate this on a massive scale in concrete, add a little bit of flowing water and you’ve got yourself a fairly generic municipal park water feature. You’re welcome.

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Wordless Wednesday: Waiting for Atlantis

Hard to believe, but just five days ago The Boy and I camped out at a park in Florida with a few hundred fellow spaceflight enthusiasts as we waited for the final space shuttle launch.

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Friday Night Videos: Hotel California

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

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Wordless Wednesday: Oddness

We interrupt this week to bring you a few things that just don’t quite seem normal.

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