Somebody built a Periodic Table table. Yes, that’s a table that looks like Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, complete with drawers containing a sample of each element if possible.
I guess the Chinese don’t get American satire. The Beijing Evening News translated an entire article from The Onion, presenting it as fact.
You don’t hear about too many 30 year-old rookies in the major leagues. The Baltimore Orioles’ relatively unknown pitcher Travis Driskill bounced around the minors for 10 seasons before finally getting his chance this April, when he was called up from Rochester. Last night against the Yankees, he pitched 7 2/3 solid innings, leading the Orioles to a 4-3 win. The “kid” might be worth watching…
It’s no surprise that the heavily-favored Red Wings won their second game at home. Although I’m still rooting for the ‘canes, they just didn’t play as well this game, and it’s more of surprise that the 3-1 score wasn’t higher, as Detroit players blew several great scoring chances.
In celebration, Nick and Sarah Arena named their newborn son Joe Louis. That’s right, his name is Joe Louis Arena, the name of the stadium where the Red Wings play. That’s just a bit much, people…
15 people were hurt in a “cheese roll” in England. OK, maybe I’m not as culturally aware as I thought, but I have no idea what the hell a “cheese roll” is. All I can think of is a Monty Python sketch gone awry. “Look out, John, the cheese has come round and is advancing on us!”
He may be burnt-out, but Ozzy Osbourne knows a good marketing scheme when he sees one. I for one will not actually believe it until I see the teddy bear that yells “I’m the fucking prince of darkness!”
On Monday, June the 10th there will be a partial solar eclipse right around sunset. Unfortunately, anyone east of Atlanta will miss out on the fun, as the sun will have set by the time of the eclipse.
An “amorous dolphin” has been spotted in the waters off of England acting in a “sexually aggressive” manner. As The Simpsons’ Cap’n McAllister said in “Treehouse of Horror XI,” “The dolphins are upon us!” Yes, I know I have too much time on my hands.
By the way, for fellow Simpsons fans I found the Cap’n McAllister image here. The webmaster of this site has done a really great job digitizing pictures of all of the Simpsons characters. For just about every other piece of Simpsons information or trivia, check out The Simpsons Archive.
Visit the South Park Studio and create your own character.
Mozilla 1.0 has been released! I’ve been raving for some time now about how great this browser is. Some of my favorite features include tabbed browsing, built-in ad blocking (popup and regular “banner” type), and a very nice user interface. Best of all, all of the coding has been done in the open source community under the sponsorship of Netscape. The fact that it’s a great alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is reason enough for me, as I refuse to use the inferior product that’s forced upon the unwitting public by Bill Gate’s Evil Empire.
