Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

On the way home tonight, I saw another impressive shooting star. Not as flashy as the last one I mentioned in my journal, but pretty bright.

I was afraid to make any wish.

• Robot Rights Protest: "With slogans like 'Save Our Circuits', robot protesters rallied outside of the 26-100 lecture hall while the annual 6.270 Robot Competition raged on inside. Numerous celebrity robots turned out to call for Robot Rights and an end to robot slavery and violence against robots."
• Photographic images on grass making use of the different shades grass grows in depending on how much light it's exposed to.
• "Old Server Down", a filk song by teddywolf about the recent network eitage from the slammer worm.
• the Grand Flaming Marshmallow Balrog Contest, a sculpture contest that's just what it sounds like. Impressive!
• A photographic meteorological commentary ("It finally happened...")
• A quote about successful managers vs. effective managers in aquariumgirl's journal.
• "Operating System Debate Causes Domestic Standoff"
• T-Shirt Hell: lots of rude T-shirt designs, all obnoxious, some noxious, some cute. I want a "Talk Nerdy To Me" shirt.
• "Redneck Pet Carrier" (Cute kitty photo.)
• NAMM Oddities, a collection of the more unusual instruments that site's author has seen at the NAMM conference.
• "Australian scientists have made a bra with a brain - it tightens its own straps if an energetic wearer needs extra support." It goes on to describe various other potential uses for smart fabrics, including a knee brace that gives feedback to athletes, and a glove to help people with hand injuries grip things. "His team started with a bra because the vast majority of women are said to suffer upper-body discomfort during exercise."
• The origins of Lorem Ipsum: "Lorem Ipsum, or Lipsum for short, is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only four centuries, but now the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lipsum." This page explains where it came from.