Poor NASA. Just when they got rid of the “Mars face” mystery (see a related Google search) that of course was no mystery at all, another similar potential headache surfaces at Mercury. After all, what else can the following image, taken a few weeks ago by the space agency’s Messenger spacecraft, show than a clear likeness of a lawn mowing alien?
Can you see how it radiates cosmic love, and so tells us relax and take it easy? How it proves that the grass is always greyer on the other side of a big empty space?
New Scientist, of course, has a different focus on the whole story, but don’t believe them. It’s a government conspiracy. They are trying to bury the evidence. But the Truth is still out there. To be discovered by Mulder & Scully in July.
xkcd calls itself a “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”, and that is indeed what it is. Having read it for a number of months now, I can also say that it is in my honest opinion currently among the best webcomics out there, if not the best.
Although perhaps a bit geeky sometimes, the comic also has heart and some great insights.
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam… Here cometh the Monty Python “Spamaloth” flash game. You cannot resist. Proceed here.
Warning: addictive, and the background song may damage your social status as you inevitably end up humming it for the next ten days.
There is a rather hilarious (but oh so true) Bible warning sticker to be seen here.
This is something that I dearly hope neither of our cats will ever be able to pull off. While there probably is no fear of Jack ever learning this (he first needs to learn to walk without tumbling and use the litter without making a huge mess of the litter area, among other things), Kitty is meanwhile already too clever for her own good.
BBC News reports that the local elections held in a small town in South Dakota, US, have produced a winner from beyond the grave. Marie Steichen, whom cancer claimed in September, was kept in the ballot and ended up beating her Republican rival posthumously.
