Hollywood stuntman Dan Rudert has been hired to catch, mid-air, a sample container dropped from space. The article makes it sound as though we haven’t been doing that sort of thing for around 50 years (though it is, apparently, the first time it’s been done with a helicopter).

I love vending machines and wish there were more cool vending options in this country. If I were Lost in Translation, I would take a stroll with a pocketful of money and see what I could buy from machines and still have enough money to take a taxi back to the hotel.

T9 is interesting, but more so when you get a glimpse of its guts when it guesses something unexpected.

And on an oddly similar note, crappy scrabble draws.

The Treasures of Ancient Egypt, Eternal Egypt, and Eternal Egypt’s only NW stop in Victoria.
The bird guides agree, that was a merganser.

Y’know, aside from the part about shooting lasers into my eye, this thing sounds really cool.

Dear Sir,
I am struck by the similarity of the book jackets of Holy Fire and Solitaire. Are they, in fact, the same book? I think the public should be told.

Unfortunately, all my observations were voiced by someone else first.

So, you remember how we all got told that our olfactory sense works based on the shapes of molecules? Turns out that’s just one theory. Another, with surprisingly strong evidence, is that our olfactory sensors contain tunneling electron spectroscopes. How cool is that?

A quite fascinating overview of Russian Humour, but I wish there were more examples.

Turns out that you can get kicked out of Chuck-A-Rama.

Will someone take me to StockStock? I’ll bring the snacks.