The Electric Astrolabe!

Holy Kaboley, I just found The Electric Astrolabe, at astrolabes.org! This is software that can be downloaded absolutely free. *Goes wild, cheering and yet fearing she will be unable to use the thing*

Astrolabe Instruction Manual

I LOVE astrolabes and wish I had one, as this speaker wishes. When he told me it would in all likelihood cost more than my entire neighborhood, my hopes were dashed. Well, truthfully, I had no hopes to dash, but nevertheless, a wild part of me wants to build one of these (the wild part does not care one whit that I have none of the skills required to build such an instrument). My heart soars as I contemplate an astrolabe, even one that is simply a pixel image on a screen. Oh, and yes, I wish there were an iPhone app astrolabe, but I searched and there is none (so far). Something to wish for!

The Pic with Two Brains

Osprey took almost the same shot of herself gazing out of the back of a steampunk boat in Steelhead today. I was using the camera to pan around and spotted her inside the boat. I got this poignant shot, then tonight saw the same view, cropped a bit differently, on her blog! Brains on a tandem Bike!

Bunnehs on a Bike

A bunnilla (bunneh / gorilla) aids a tiny jackalope, not knowing she is a magical creature.

Vlad the Inhaler

The wolf tells his side of the story.

Bunnehs on a Bloon

Two bunnehs, one a tiny jackalope, one a grotesque bunnilla, take off on a balloon journey through The Forest of Kahruvel, only to meet a cigar-smoking wolf.

It's Raining Trees!

On the Discovery Channel they are showing an aerial reforestation project, in which helicopters carry buckets of canisters containing soil and prepared black mangrove seeds. See a video primer on aerial reforestation here.

Nebra Sky Disc

Unearthed in central Germany, this bronze and gold disc has changed archaeological ideas about Europe and its stage of development in the Bronze Age. A tv show about the disc (produced by BBC Scotland) is currently being aired on the National Geographic Channel.

My Just Leap In iPhone Gallery. This is not accessible using Internet Explorer, so if you use Firefox you can romp in, but with IE, Just Leap Out.