Nobody has experienced hockey until they have sat in the GEC in section 303. (Unless of course you were there the night that some friends and I started chanting "We want blood" and some hockey player on the other team got pucked in the face)Anyway....its getting to be fall, and I am starting to crave a hockey game again, so this is a meme-must!

Section 303

Now this is just freakin' ARTFUL

The mere image itself screams "This was not done by real aliens" but whoever did it deserves an award for artistry in engineering.

Crop circle at  Crabwood Farm House, nr Winchester, Hampshire. Reported 15th August 2002

"Researchers say they have found a relatively easy way to extract the clean fuel source hydrogen from a glucose solution.
"We are at the (laboratory) bench experiment stage so far, but it works," Jim Dumesic, who leads the research team at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told Reuters by telephone. "

CNN.com - Spoonful of sugar could get cars zooming - August 28, 2002

Programmers who hack their own bodies don't need exercise and never get sick: A new short story from one of science fiction's bright young stars.

0wnz0red

You work in the IT department.....you're a ninja......sounds logical enough. GO!

This is sweet!

IT Ninja

"When Apple unveiled its Mac OS X operating system a couple of years ago, the company's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, explained that it offered two important benefits. First, Mac OS X (pronounced "ten") rests on a superstable, industrial-strength foundation called Unix. Second, Mac OS X is so beautiful, "you just want to lick it.""

/me licks Mac OS X.
mmmmmm......UNIX

Mac OS 10.2 Reviewed

""It's a photo, but it's not like I have a test tube of it," O'Reilly said. "They still have that instant reaction. It makes people think of the paradox of something being beautiful but intellectually horrifying." "

Behold: 'Ebola Is Beautiful'

"No one complained two years ago when the University of North Carolina required its incoming freshmen to read a book about the lingering effects of the Civil War, nor last year when it assigned a book about a Hmong immigrant's struggle with epilepsy and American medicine.
But this year, the university in Chapel Hill is asking all 3,500 incoming freshmen to read a book about Islam and finds itself besieged in federal court and across the airwaves by Christian evangelists and other conservatives."

A Timely Subject -- and a Sore One (washingtonpost.com)

More Snakehead fish fun. I just wanted to meme this because it includes a picture.

Maryland poisoning alien snakehead fish

This is a continuation of the story on Snakeheads, those fish that can walk on land for days. The article talks about how this fish was introduced into the pond (aKa by a moron), and their plans for killing the fish (sad that they have to do that). Morbidly, it also gives a website (www.snakeheads.org) where you can get recipes for cooking this fish.

Snakeheads Put Small Maryland Pond on World Map