BBC News - Giant Echizen jellyfish off Japan coast

BBC News - Giant Echizen jellyfish off Japan coast

Earth's Weather Like You Have Never Seen It Before - Earth weather - Gizmodo

Earth's Weather Like You Have Never Seen It Before - Earth weather - Gizmodo

Video: Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck's Protest Footage | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

Video: Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck's Protest Footage | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

Great white sharks coming closer to shore than thought, researchers find - washingtonpost.com

Awesome new research on Whites!

Great white sharks coming closer to shore than thought, researchers find - washingtonpost.com

Awesome surfboard travel bag

Georgia man faces felony charge for airport vandalism

Georgia man faces felony charge for airport vandalism

HA!!! I used to work with this guy at my last company. This doesn't surprise me at all. He's the reason I can't touch hefeweizen beer to this day.

Not sure how a touchscreen LCD costs $15,000 though. That's really expensive.

Samoan Tsunami Surfer Survivor story

Samoan Tsunami Surfer Survivor story

AP: Palau creates world's first shark sanctuary - Yahoo! News

About effing time!!!

Now how do we get this country a destroyer that can seak and destroy shark finning boats?

AP: Palau creates world's first shark sanctuary - Yahoo! News

Johann Hari: Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent

Great article about how the right can make up blatant falsehoods and get away with it. My favorite quote from the article is below:

Johann Hari: Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent: "These increasingly frenzied claims have become so detached from reality that they often seem like black comedy. The right-wing magazine US Investors' Daily claimed that if Stephen Hawking had been British, he would have been allowed to die at birth by its 'socialist' healthcare system. Hawking responded with a polite cough that he is British, and 'I wouldn't be here without the NHS'."

Yummy green tea that's actually red!

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Tony is 40!

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Science Is in the Details :: Sam Harris

Compelling reasons why Dr Francis Collins is not a good candidate for director of NIH.

Science Is in the Details :: Sam Harris

First flight with erik

Sent from my iPhoneChildrens pool la jolla

The Beatles rock band opening

I... want... this... game...

Brains and conscienceness

Cool interview with Gerald Edelman in Discover

What Makes you uniquely you?

Geeky Rare-Earth Magnets Repel Sharks

Geeky Rare-Earth Magnets Repel Sharks: "Divers and swimmers may thrill to the idea of shark safeguards. However, before you rush out to buy neodymium magnets to create your own shark-repelling gear, Herrmann cautions that the magnets appear to have an effective range of only 10 inches. Also, you'd need to align the magnetic poles outward and keep the magnets from clicking together, and once you had the necessary 10 to 20 pounds of magnets all over your body, you'd sink. So, at a cost of about $5 a magnet, you could theoretically turn yourself into a $400 shark-safe anchor at the bottom of the sea."

Shark Conservation Act of 2009!

Good news on the shark front!

From the Oceana org:

The House of Representatives passed the Shark Conservation Act of 2009 (H.R. 81) yesterday. This bill would require sharks to be landed with their fins still naturally attached, which allows for better enforcement and data collection in stock assessments and quota monitoring.

Below is a statement from Beth Lowell, federal policy director at Oceana, an international marine conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the world's oceans.

The Shark Conservation Act will improve existing laws that were originally intended to prevent shark finning. This legislation will also allow the U.S. to take action against countries whose shark finning restrictions are not as strenuous, labeling the U.S. as a continued international leader in shark conservation.

Oceana now looks to the Senate for fast action to enact the Shark Conservation Act into law. It is time for the U.S. to end shark finning once and for all.

Background:
Tens of millions of sharks are caught globally for just their fins each year. During the finning process, sharks are typically hauled up on deck, their fins sliced off and the animals thrown back to sea, often still alive.
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Richard Dawkins on our "queer" universe | Video on TED.com

Richard Dawkins on our "queer" universe | Video on TED.com

Interesting TED talk from Richard Dawkins. He's not the best speaker in this as he's basically reading the whole time, but the content is really cool and fascinating.

Holy crap!

http://www.sardari.com/cgd/one/pages/cgd_one_238.htm

It's my sister with the McCain's and some other people! Now that's just weird.

Doodling primes a wandering mind, study says - CNN.com

Doodling primes a wandering mind, study says - CNN.com

What's the ideal number of friends?

BBC NEWS | Magazine | What's the ideal number of friends?

Out of the Deep Blue � Blog Archive � Tiger shark, Tiger Beach

Eli's pictures are just so damn amazing that I have to use the word "damn" to describe them! I've had this one as my desktop for a few days now and I can't stop looking at how beautiful it is!

Tiger shark, Tiger Beach

Toshiba TG01 with 4.1-inch WVGA touchscreen: a world's first Snapdragon - Engadget

Toshiba TG01 with 4.1-inch WVGA touchscreen: a world's first Snapdragon - Engadget

Yummy!!! Daddy wants one!

We all survived!

Print Liberation

Picasa for Mac: Free download from Google

Best News all day!!!

Picasa finally for the Mac!

Testing her out now. Hopefully I can finally ditch iPhoto which is just awful.

Picasa for Mac: Free download from Google

Sunset SLC new years day.

Sunset SLC new years day.
Originally uploaded by k3rm

Rainbow over sd

Rainbow over sd
Originally uploaded by k3rm

Win Ben Stein's mind - Roger Ebert's Journal

Wow.

Awesome response from Ebert to Ben Stein's Intelligent Design "movie."

Win Ben Stein's mind - Roger Ebert's Journal

Mosquito Ringtones

In case you haven't heard about the mosquito ringtones, they are very high pitched tones that older people simply can't hear/recognize. I thought I had pretty good ears still at a lively 32 years old, but sadly, the concerts and rock music have taken their toil.

The site below has a play button for each tone. See how many you can hear. I can hear 15khz but not 16khz. My mind wants to hear it, but I really don't think I can.

So much for buying speakers and headphones that rock the 22khz range!

Mosquito Ringtones - Download the Mosquito Ring Tone Free

Kermit The Frog To Grand Marshal Local Parade - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego

Kermit The Frog To Grand Marshal Local Parade - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego

Graham Barker's Navel Fluff Collection

Graham Barker's Navel Fluff Collection

Wow, people spent a lot of time collecting naval fluff and even researching it!

I am a pro navel fluff generator. I'm pretty sure I can create navel fluff without even wearing a shirt. I'm that good.

Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" Filmed at Drilling Site

This video shows a really cool and really creepy giagantic squid!

Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" Filmed at Drilling Site

Monty Python YouTube channel

What a wonderful tidbit of news for the morning!!!

Monty Python is putting all their skits on YouTube!

http://www.youtube.com/MontyPython