Transit duration: 0.8s Transit bandwidth on Earth: 5.6 km. Altitude: 600 km. Speed: 7 km/s (25000 km/h). Length of Atlantis : 35m, length of Hubble : 13m. via

Hopefully, nobody we know... It's the weekend, ok?

A GQ article on Donald Rumsfeld . The throw up in your mouth interesting bit is the dozen or so cover sheets for the daily Iraq War intelligence briefing. Each with its own passage from the bible. The slide show on the main link isn't working for me, but you can see them by incrementing the image numbers in the URL of the second link. more inside

There's a zombie on your lawn! Plants vs Zombies. It's a very cute, horribly addictive game. Download for an hour of free play, or create your zombified avatar on their website. If, like me, you are hooked after half an hour, you can get it for $10US from here. Hopefully in the demo version you get to see the Michael Jackson zombie.

Awkward. Awkwaaaard more inside

Unemployment got you down? If you already have a prescription for Viagra, and then lose your job, Pfizer will keep your head up high for a whole year, FREE!

Space Zen: Will Humans' Brains Change During Travel in Outer Space?

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

Where are you on the Wolverine hair chart? Are you Side Puffs? Are you Classic Pointy? Or more Classic Mane? How about Puffy Balls? Perhaps you're somewhere on the road to Mustachery. I admit I'm Basic Flat Top. I'm so boring. On the other hand I'm glad I don't have Friendly Muttonchops.

Burial at sea [BBC video]: it's not just a roll of sailcloth and two roundshot any more. The latest thing is to have your ashes mixed with concrete to create part of an artificial reef. A few companies will make your remains into a fish-friendly little holey ball or there's this underwater sculpture garden you can become part of off the Florida Keys.

Artist Simon Schubert makes rooms by creasing paper

Early Comics & Cetera A website about picture stories and appertaining topics. more inside

Martha Mason, dead at 71. Ms. Mason died on Monday at her home in Lattimore, N.C. She was 71 and had lived for more than 60 years in an iron lung. In the centuries to come it is my firm belief that it is vaccination that will be seen as _the_ medical advance of our time.

Tir Nan Og A lovely little animation from YT more inside

Don't point and laugh! . Stole this direct from the Blue. Interesting theory, but the best part of the whole post was their comments. This is gen-U-wine spit-take material, so ah, whatever's in your mouth, swallow please. tips hat to hippybear From SciAm, but possibly NSFW if your boss isn't into penis theory

I have a good feeling about this. Ads promoting Star Wars weekends at Disney World. Pepsi Blue, yet cute. more inside

Freeze Frame - Historic Polar Images, 1845-1982 from the Scott Polar Research Institute "Freeze Frame is the result of a two-year digitisation project that brings together photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions." more inside

ChickenFilter KFC is apparently giving away free chicken, if you can beat the server traffic. Coupon printable today only! Monkeys eat chicken, don't they?

Six transcripts from the UK's 999 service.

My First Dictionary Introduce your young'uns early to the strangeness, quiet misery and despair that are modern living.