If you decorate with weapons, or just wish you did, Swords Online is your friend.

From “Norovirus strain strikes long-term care, cruises: a novel, highly transmissible strain emerges.” from Hospital Infection Control, March 2003 v30 i3 p34(2), one finds several alarming features of norovirus, the virus formerly known as Norwalk-like virus: While most of the data on gastrointestinal disease outbreaks is gathered assuming that the pathogen is spread by food, […]

"The disease … strikes where there is inadequate sanitation – mostly in hospitals and schools or on cruise ships." I was initially just going to post this with an appropriate note of resignation about the cruise I’m destined to take next year. Then I actually read the quote. Inadequate sanitation in hospitals? What the?

Tiny motors. Neat. The article does not mention Eric Drexler or the Foresight Institute.

Someone I know has recently completed training in hair balancing, which (as anyone who has seen me in the past few months can attest) is exactly what I need. Apparently there’s a long tradition of people afraid to get their hair cut. So I’m not insane, just traditional. (Thanks to Ursula, whose Google fu kicks […]

We might be able to see some aurora hereabouts soon. More satellites might blow up, too. Since I’ve never seen the aurora from the ground (and my view from the air was along a distant horizon through foggy airplane windows), I might consider it a reasonable trade. But only if I actually get to see […]

Symmetry is truly a lovely, lovely thing; but perhaps it’s the differences that make the difference.

Some kind person in Norway has done us all the service of collecting all that crap that people send you. I was surprised how entertaining I found it to browse. Some of them are too, too cute.

Yeah, sure I’ll crack my head open or at least be wet and miserable most days of the year, but can I please please have an electric scooter? Common sense is always trumped by cute euro styling.

I tried (not all that hard) to find more recent status for Chess in the States, but I ended up finding (again) only this cache of a page that indicates that the only version of the show that can legally be performed in the States is the horrible Broadway re-write. The Yahoo discussion group seems […]