Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Spam...

Randy Cassingham's excellent spam (email spam, not the meat product) primer.  You should read this even if you think you know everything about spam...

Echinopsis huascha...

I have no idea how to pronounce that, but I know it's beautiful.  From Botany Photo of the Day, of course.  As usual, click to enlarge...


Groan...

Reader Dave H. passes this along, saying
“If you are in a book store and cannot find the book for which you search, then obviously you are in the...”

Agility Cat...

Via my lovely wife (who competes in dog agility), this video of cat agility.  As someone who has lived with many cats for many years, I must admit that I would not have thought it possible to train a cat to do this...

X-47B UCAS...

This is the U.S. Navy's next-generation UAV, intended for use on carriers.  It's highly stealthy, has quite a large operating radius, and can carry both weapons and sensors.  A task force equipped with a few of these could monitor and control a very large area at sea, and could also project force effectively on land when the task force was 500 miles or more offshore...

Can Our Dogs Do This?

Reader Simon M. asks: can our dogs do this?

Sadly, Simon, they cannot...