The Long List of Absurd – Health Canada Approved – Homeopathic Medicines:

4. Carcinosinum – Homeopathic cancer. No particular type specified. NPN 80022612.
14. Ova Tosta – Roasted egg shells. My guess is that these are chicken eggs. NPN 80019832.
16. X-Ray – Sugar pills exposed to x-rays, then serially diluted. DIN-HM 80029649.
21. Gunpowder Pellets – Homeopathic gunpowder. Not for use in guns. NPN 80017147.
22. Oxygenium – Homeopathic oxygen. So many questions. Don’t blank sugar pills already have this included? How do you keep the original oxygen from being inhaled or floating away? NPN 80009300.

Oh, science:

The hERG gene was first named and described in a paper by Jeff Warmke and Barry Ganetzky, then both at the University of Wisconsin.[16] The hERG gene is the human homolog of the Ether-à-go-go gene found in the Drosophila fly; Ether-à-go-go was named in the 1960s by William D. Kaplan, now at the City of Hope Hospital in Duarte, California. When flies with mutations in the Ether-à-go-go gene are anaesthetised with ether, their legs start to shake, like the dancing then popular at the Whisky A Go-Go nightclub in West Hollywood, California.

GeoGuesser. You're not going to sleep now.

While you're not sleeping, though, you can listen to this:

That's an awesome animation. I like how you disappear and then come back with a mini-vengeance.

A neat video visualization of the Elgg github repo evolution of the last few years. It's kind of fascinating to see the restructuring happen via death ray. I'm in there too, I just kind of float around a bit looking lost :)

re: New Years' Resolutions:

1. uh... work in progress (ie. I forgot about this one)
2. Done today! In 2:32, with Nadeesha dragging me (with encouragement) over the finish line.
3. Slacking off because of 2
4. Done!

21 thoughts for the the weekend:

1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a wise man.
2-21. These.

So, uh, apropos of the Leia-Chewwie photo, apparently George Lucas and whoever else was involved in the costuming decided that "there's no underwear in space" for the original three Star Wars... Go figure.

66 Behind the Scenes Pics from The Empire Strikes Back: