Without Boing Boing, I would never have found out about the Duct tape festival in Ohio, to be held on Father’s Day weekend (when else?). With a bit more tape, I think I can get the car to hold together well enough to get me there! 🙂

Found in Wired News: Furthermore Switching to Glide 02:00 AM May. 14, 2005 PT Forget about snakes in the grass — beware of sailing serpents. While it’s not exactly news that some snakes take to the air, a University of Chicago researcher finally figured out exactly how the limbless reptiles pull off their amazingly effective […]

Krassy found this undersea restaurant and I owe him a huge debt for that. The Maldives | 15 April marks the day that the first ever all-glass undersea restaurant in the world opens its doors for business at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. Ithaa* will sit five meters below the waves of the Indian […]

Scientists have decoded the dances that bees use to tell each other where to find food… …with radar… …after attaching transponders to individual bees! From the article: After finding food, scout bees returning to the hive dance on the vertical walls of the honeycomb. A round dance indicates the food is very close, within 35 […]

Yes, I know it’s May but a friend pointed out that I ought to add a link to my April fools web site, Midwest Tea. If you are in the mood for some pure silliness, give it a read. Dougal Campbell pointed out a very cool site, Google Sightseeing. You can tour the country (and […]