Brown paper bag included

NASA scientists are using a 20-G centrifuge machine that can simulate up to 20 times the terrestrial gravity to evaluate the effects of hypergravity on humans. The goal of these experiments is to reduce the adverse effects that space travel can have on astronauts' physical heath but also to help the rapidly growing senior population.

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Silp of the figner....

A while ago I did a post about giving a friend the wrong url and what he found there. I said that I was lucky as some typos had been taken by pr0n sites. It seems that they are now been taken over by click sites. Try typing variations on blogger and see what you get. Yep, webpages filled with sponsored links. According to this report, Google is one of the main players in this game, which has angered others. Read it and make up your own mind.... It reminds me of another report, which said that in a survey of Google users, the majority of the did not realise that the results on the right hand side or at the top were actually paid for. The people who monitor the net where I work do though, as they're automatically blocked.....

Grrrrrrrr, bad blogger

On the whole I like Blogger. I've read in forums tales of other people having a terrible time with it, but on the whole I haven't had any problems. With one exception. Every so often after I do some tinkering with the template, like today, it loses some of my coding. This time it's half the sidebar and the footer. Normally I catch it and just clear the changes I've done and it comes back, but this time I didn't and saved the changes. Bugger.

Tentant Time

Paying the rent this week is RockyJay. His blog certainly gave me a few chuckles. A quick warning though, some of his posts are of an "adult" nature, which is shorthand for sex and swearing....

DragonSlayer

Sunday is St George's day, celebrating the patron saint of England. The day doesn't have the same popularity as, say, St Patrick's day (could it be to do with the fact that the latter is associated with getting bladdered? Surely not...) but it is growing, as is the sense of pride in being English, which until recently seemed to be frowned upon. So this weekend my desktop will be proudly displaying the Cross of St George. If you want it on your screen, click on the pic to get the full size version. For more information and to buy St George's day merchandise (probably too late for this year, but you can get a head start for next....) click here. You can also join the campaign to make the day an official holiday. They have over 500,000 votes so far, but another one won't hurt....

P.S Another little celebration goes with this post, as it's my hundredth. Virtual cake all round.

Nemi

While we're on the subject of Goths, meet Nemi: (click on the pic for a more readable version.)

She's a twentysomething Goth living in Oslo, and has her own views on the world. She's drawn by Norwiegian Lise Myhre, and the official site is here, though as it's in Ms Myhre's native language, most will be better off here or here. You can catch up with Nemi on the recently revamped Metro newspaper site, and there's an unofficial archive of strips here.

This Weeks Tenant

Welcome this week's tenant - Stupid People Shouldn't breed. Something I seem to be muttering more and more lately. Give them a click (after you've finished perusing my musings, of course). I chose this site because I found myself nodding in agreement to most of the postings, plus they have the excellent Emily the Strange as the header.

A Virtual Nip Tuck

Fancy a makeover without going under the surgeon's knife? Then try this, you'll be amazed by the results. Click on the browse button to start.

Easily Amused

A couple of pages I've found whilst aimlessly drifting from A to God knows where:

The first has pics from the Ceaser dog food site of owners who look like their dogs....














The second is a small but growing page of silly signs from around the world....















Click on the pics for more....

Fancy Pants Addiction

This little game has been keeping me entertained for a while now. It's fun, harder than it looks and is quite addictive. I've completed it a couple of times and gone back to improve my scores. Give it a try.... The Bullet Time on the same site keeps me going back too....