analemming

As I wandered about at lunch, it occured to me that one could make an analemma of the moon. The solar analemma is the figure-8 path the sun makes if you take a picture of it at the same time each day. For the moon, the orbit of the moon around the earth complicates matters, but if you account for that by using its average motion, one could make an analogous figure for the moon. Sadly, I wasn't the first to think of this.

Netscape Navigator, we hardly knew ye

FARK's having its headline of the year contest. My personal fave is:

Man who beat his girlfriend with a flashlight charged with assault. Flashlight charged with battery.

Rocking the journals - Something I spotted in Science

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets are the greatest band in the northern wastes, but now I know the identity of the greatest band in Antarctica. They even have a marine biologist in their line-up.