Congrats, Beck!

Rear-view mirror:

A traditional rear-view mirror can be tilted to reduce the brightness and glare of lights, mostly for headlights shining directly on the eye level at night. This manual tilt mirror is made of a piece of glass that is wedge-shaped in cross section—its front side and back (silvered) side are not parallel, unlike normal mirror glass. In the default day view, the front side is tilted and the back side (which has a reflective coating, usually with silver like a mirror) is head-on and will give a strong reflection. When the mirror is tilted, its front side is head-on and the back is tilted. This view is actually a reflection off the clear, front piece of the glass rather than the back silver-coated part. Since the front part allows most of the light to go through, only a small amount of light is now reflected into the driver's eyes.

So you know when the truck behind you has those really bright annoying lights, and your rear view mirror has the little toggle tab at the bottom. It toggles down and dims the view from the back window, but you can still see out of it... how does that work? The angle of the mirror should be showing me the floor of the van between the back seats shouldn't it?

I got a minivan! I'm a soccer mom!

Nice posts Par!

'Cello scrotum' exposed as a hoax

Optical Illusion Girlfriend

New Grow Game.

Amazing confluence of awesome: John Hodgman was Bruce Campbell's literary agent. That's nuts.

(Also, My Name is Bruce on DVD February 10!)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/01/26/edm-panhandling-police.html

Okay so you don't think I'm getting lazy mecha wise:

Work in progress mecha

Probally finished next month.