Steve and Susan - Jack Davenport and Sarah Alexander.

This reminds me of a web-version of Super Mario Galaxy. Its' the neatest things I've played in months.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, by Frederick Stonehouse
25th Anniversary Updated Edition

This was an interesting read, originally written just two years after the sinking.  The author's account of the events leading up to the sinking was a quick read, only about a hundred pages or so.  The rest of the book, including the updated sections, was mostly reprints of official documentation or commentary on it.  However, it was a fascinating explanation with little bullshit or speculation.

Flotsametrics and the Floating World, by Curtis Ebbesmeyer & Eric Scigliano

Fascinating book about one oceanographers discoveries about the gyres and currents that shape the ocean.  Ebbesmeyer is the scientist who brought fame to the floating toys in the Pacific back in the 90's.  Part memoir, part scientific primer, and part manifesto it really brings home how important the ocean's currents are to history, life, and even death.

I ran across this article on the BBC website and thought the following description was entirely awesome.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jerusalem Diary: 4 May:

There were four types of meat, the sort that appears to have been cooked for a day at a low, slow heat, then given a massage, then sent on holiday, and only when it has become at one with its surrounding ingredients and is so relaxed that it falls off the bone at the mere approach of your fork, is it then ready to be served.

... cheaper bacon.

The buzzing of the clippers the barber uses for the back of the neck and around the ears.

snopes.com: New Dollar Coins and 'In God We Trust': I'm actually a bit bothered by this change; I like the edge inscriptions and I'm disappointed that the mint chose to shrink the president's number and years in office in order to make room for the motto.

Giant amoebas found rolling on sea floor | COSMOS magazine: Holy crap

Fuck You, Penguin:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! Quirk Books $12.95 : Chronicle Books: I have got to read this

Neil Gaiman's Journal: The Religion of Dolphins...:

Working on the assumption that external accounts are given a number, sequentially, based on the date/time they first logged in to LiveJournal, we can see over one hundred seventy-two thousand different external accounts created with OpenID logins.

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