] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. %u2014 Food is running so low aboard
] the international space station the two crewmen have been
] instructed to cut back on calories, at least until a
] Russian supply ship arrives in a little over two weeks,
] NASA said Thursday.
]
] If anything goes wrong with the Christmas Day delivery,
] the space agency will have no choice, given the grounding
] of its shuttle fleet, but to abandon the station and
] bring the men home in early January.

This is a bad.

I don't know why it's bad, but the words "Starving Astronaut" don't go well together. Thank God we're going to the moon, cause on the moon at least the Astronauts will be able to all that moon cheese.

CTV.ca | Food supply running low for space station crew

This recipe satisfies three key requirements:
- fried
- cheese
- totally awesome

There's another recipe on cdkitchen to make this w/ frozen stoffer's mac&cheese. I would swap out the flour for corn flour or corn meal.

So good.

Fried Macaroni And Cheese Recipe | Macaroni & Cheese Recipes

] "The Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center has been
] listed among the top 'pork' projects in the 2005
] 'Omnibus' Appropriations bill by Citizens Against
] Government Waste (CAGW), Taxpayers for Common Sense,
] Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and numerous members of
] the national media. In response (and because neither
] CAGW, Taxpayers for Common Sense, or Rep. Flake bothered
] to seek an explanation of the project from the Discovery
] Center or Rep. Peterson before calling it 'pork'),
] Punxsutawney Phil has woken up early from "hibernation"
] and will travel to the nationâ??s Capitol on Tuesday to
] defend the Weather Discovery Center!"

Remember that movie _GroundHog Day_ starring Bill Murray as Phil Connors the TV weather man who constantly has to relive one day over and over again? Boy that driving quadraped was pretty funny and humble back then.

I guess big city livin has changed him (visit his website at: http://www.groundhog.org/). Now he's all lobbying congress for a big weather center. Pretty ambitious for a Marmota monax who never went to college and has to audacity to claim he has the ability to divine the coming year's weather.

CapitalWeather.com - The Power Center for DC Weather

] AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Scientists said on Monday they have
] come up with a cell phone cover that will grow into a
] sunflower when thrown away.

Hippie friendly cellphones.

Scientists Make Phone That Turns Into a Sunflower

I post this because it's so frighteningly gross. Please don't look here if you don't like the nasty.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Maggot Brain)

If any of your are in DC on Jan 20th please join these guys.

--timball

Turn Your Back On Bush

] "It's a premonition of things to come," Pike said. "It
] makes sense. These things have no family to write home
] to. They're fearless. You can put them places you'd have
] a hard time putting a soldier in."

Robots with rockets. Seriously.

Wired News: More Robot Grunts Ready for Duty

A little flash animation to a song from Team America.

America f*** yeah

I love eating at grease joints, diners, dives, holes-in-the-wall. Who wants to eat a chain where the food has almost no character? Small local establishments with good deals and quality food will always be my first pick. Holly Moore grew up in philly with all the great cheese steak places but has seemingly travelled extensively in the united states. I'm determined to eat my way thru his list.

He's also somehow connected to a did a show for PBS called: Sandwiches That You Will Like (http://www.wqed.org/tv/natl/sandwiches/).

Holly Eats.Com - Home Page

] Starting when he was an undergrad, Tim Koeth built a 12−inch
] cyclotron. Now he is in grad school and his creation is used
] in a senior−level lab class.

Yeah. Nerds rule. $15,000 for a cyclotron isn't bad... but they got the 2.5 ton magnet for free. I wonder if someone could do it for cheaper. Still it's wicked hot chowdah.

Building a Cyclotron on a Shoestring