Nanites/replicators, here we come!

Check out the self-assembling robots.

“That’s great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane, Lenny Bruce is not afraid…”

Gillian in Maxim

Moviesonline.ca released photos of Gillian Anderson from an upcoming issue of Maxim. I foresee a lot of desktop wallpapers changing soon. Gillian in a bustier and heels? Aaaahhhhhh…..

Really like these self-portraits sarahjayne26 on Flickr. Check out her whole set of selfies.

Rediscovered buttons

Ever bought a mouse with the extra buttons and other mousy bling, then forgot to assign functions to those buttons? I’ve had this one for months now and totally forgot to take advantage of the extras I paid for.

Really bugs me that I left some junk around the box while cropping.  But to be honest, I’m too tired to do anything about it.

I was working late one night and grabbed a quick pic before the (nearly) hour drive home. Nothing super special about this one. But after adjusting the white balance to remove the orange tinge of sodium vapor lights, I really liked the yellow stripes and blue-gray night sky.

Coldstone decadence

Took a trip to Coldstone Creamery a couple weekends ago:

I could practically eat the waffle bowl all by itself. Add Coldstone’s extra-rich ice cream and I’m in hyperglycemic heaven.

The singular of “strata” is stratum, right?  So why have I never heard anyone use the word stratum before?

Men as imitators?

Maybe it’s not really the case. But I’ve always thought men do more and better imitations of sounds and of other people’s voices. IF that’s true, I wonder if evolution plays some part in that. Perhaps the hunters who were able imitate animal sounds were more successful.

But women are generally more gifted linguistically. And better able to discern subtle variations in tone (or whatever) that are sending less overt pieces of the overall message.

Find more Flickr photos YOU like

From the flexplore group on Flickr:

flexplore analyzes your favorites and people you share them with and tries to recommend photos you might like based on that.

Be aware that it takes a few minutes (at least 13 or so) for flexplore to churn through your own favorites. But the results are well worth the wait. Can’t say that everything flexplore recommended was to my taste. But there were certainly enough to make the application very worthwhile. Many thanks to the app’s author Lars Pohlmann.

Alternative to Google Analytics

Have to admit what caught my eye was the palette of their logo. But after checking it out, this looks pretty interesting. At work, I use Analytics to help evaluate our promotional the success of our AdWords ads. It’s kinda’ neat that someone’s giving everyone an alternative.