Crotia Al may return to party but it is 31 year old Al's body that has to pay.

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.