Diamond planet thought to have been found rotating pulsar

Sounds gorgeous =) article found below:

http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/2011/DiamondPlanet/

What video game animal would you most like to eat? – Question of the day

Haven’t written in my blog for a while but was inspired to today when I found a page on kotaku asking ‘what video game animal would you most like to eat?’

As both a food fan & a video game fan I couldn’t resist…and think my choice would have to be spoink…imagine the crackling

So…what video game animal would you most like to eat?

Blue tit eaten by plant (from bbc)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14416809?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter impressive that a plant is able to do that; but…eww

The Infernal Device

The Ruins - Myke Amend

Today’s post is about a team of artists are embarking on a project using recycled bits-and-bobs & renewable energy sources to create some pretty cool artwork & showcase some of the technology that’s out there.  I’m not feeling particularly literate today so it’s probably best to follow the link & find out about it for yourself, but what I can say is that they’re giving away some awesome things if you donate to help them out…so if you love steampunky wonderful goodness, like the sound of the project, or just want to make me incredibly jealous (I have exactly £0.00 =’( so no donating for me) then click on the link =)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/infernaldevice/the-infernal-device-an-enormous-mechanical-and-pai

Desert Shadows - Myke Amend

Quote of the Day – ‘Prick from the Isle of Man’

‘The Suda is alone in claiming that Sappho was married to a “very wealthy man called Cercylas, who traded from Andros” and that he was Cleïs’ father. This tradition may have been invented by the comic poets as a witticism, as the name of the purported husband means “prick from the Isle of Man.”‘

Holt Parker, “Sappho Schoolmistress” (orig. pub. Transactions of the American Philological Association 123 (1993), pp. 309-51 via http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

Picture of the day…zzzzzz

Spent the Day studying, weather’s gloomy, might go to the library in a bit, feeling quite accomplished though =) except when I think about all the work I haven’t even started yet =s

Charity Pesterers hit new low

Today I saw a girl crying in the street, she wasn’t bawling but she was obviously upset & as far as I could tell she wanted to be left alone. Whilst busy thinking about the girl I almost ran into one of those people who stand in the street persuading people to sign up to give money to charity. Now I’m not a total scrooge, back home I quite liked helping out with things for good causes, but in England they seem to take this a few steps further, these people don’t just want your change, they want your phone number, your email & sometimes even your address and the English charity collector is a stubborn & manipulative beast. Now this is where the girl comes in, in dodging the charity girl I open up a direct path between her and the girl who was crying, to my disbelief charity girl makes a bee-line for crying girl
‘Are you ok?’ slightly too cute smile…crying girl gives an unsure nod…’Awesome , well I’d just like to tell you about…’

Shameless…I walk away baffled :s

Quote of the Day

Reading an article about the wobbles in Saturn’s rings and found this quote that made me smile =) here Dr. Mark Showater (SETI Institute) describes the effect of comets on the rings of planets:

Rings are comet catchers,” he says. “We probably already realised that comets hit rings periodically but we never realised before that every comet puts its own signature into the rings when it comes by and that that history gets recorded into these spiral patterns”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12899961

My new Blackberry/How I joined the modern world

A couple of days ago I got a new phone contract, I decided to finally join the modern world and get something where I could use the internet, and possibly get a phone made some time in the past century (my old sony ericsson really belongs with the dinosaurs). I ended up with a blackberry curve and I’m amazed at how much it can do, spent all day downloading apps for twitter,wordpress,email it’s amazing =) I love the qwerty keypad, the battery life is surprisingly good =s (which is one thing I was worried about) and its still good for all the things phones should be, can’t wait to learn more about what it can do =)

Picture of the Day

The weather’s been gloomy for days now, can’t wait for another clear day =) this morning looked promising but the clouds stayed and the gloom set in for another afternoon let’s hope there’s some better weather soon =)

Today also marks the 15th anniversary since pokemon Red & Green were released in Japan, happy Birthday Pokemon =) x Sitting here excited for Black & White release day on Friday, can’t wait (really glad it’s happening the day after my midterms finish and not the day before =p),  tis going to be awesome…well it’s been a good 15 years so far =) here’s to at least another decade together