Interweb fun
Tired of the scheming, scamming and spamming
Inevitably, when you hang out your virtual shingle on the internet, you’ll subject yourself to people (or their bots) who think it’s great fun to fill your inbox with garbage.
In the last 24 hours, we’ve received about a dozen emails full of gibberish on our contact form. These make me chuckle at least, since I [...]
Test your Colour IQ
I had seen this a while back and meant to blog about it, and then noticed that Drawn! mentioned it today — this is a fun little test to see just how well you can discern varying hues. Good fun for all you visual-types :)
It doesn’t take that long to do, and in case you’re wondering [...]
The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff has been online for a little while, but I’m a little slow sometimes in catching up to everything interweb. The whole movie is about 20 minutes long and gives a “fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns”.
The three teasers are below. Good food for thought.
Diversions
Well hello there. Looks like it’s been a little while since there’s been a blog update.
The household was (and still is) under siege by some lovely cold virus that seems to be making the rounds. So priority has been given to sleeping more, resting more and trying to convince the smallest member of the family [...]
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Sometimes, we’re late adopters around here.
While we have four computers for 2 users (mind you, two of the computers are very very slow), we’re not much in the way of gaming, despite that fact that I have a brother that has a resumé full of work for computer gaming companies.
So when people talk about different [...]
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I always thought the Feist song was pretty entertaining for kids, seeing as we used to play it a lot on our iPod (appropriate), and Jack would actually sing along, even filling in the line of “changing your heart”.
So seeing Feist on Sesame Street doing muppet dancing = awesome :)
And in a proud parental aside, [...]
Presto!
Found via NotCot: Presto! the animated short featured before Wall-E
Sorry, we can’t embed it on our site, but it’s sooo funny, it’s worth clicking to.
Boy band + lab equipment = love! <3
From my friend and fellow ex-lab geek Julie, an ad for Eppendorf:
Ahhh. My favourite part of the lyrics is:
DNA
RNA
Proteins
Cell Cultures
Less reagents
Faster workflow
Saves you money
Well, well, well
Ask any pipetting lab dork and they’ll chuckle at the “well, well, well”. I used to get pipettor’s thumb and I can’t say that I miss that sort [...]
Virtual window shopping
I would have said Windows® shopping, but our PC has decided not to connect to the internet so we’re almost exclusively Mac-surfing now.
I’ve been wanting to do a little shopping, but it seems whenever we have the free time to go shopping, it’s usually past closing time at the mall. Instead, it’s virtual shopping for [...]
Thoroughly enjoying
I have a thing for musicals. And Nathan Fillion. And Joss Whedon projects. And now Neil Patrick Harris.
If you haven’t yet seen the interweb sensation that is Dr. Horrible, go now before the 20th.
