Link salad

[larryhammer]

On the importance of opening sentences.

A video demonstrating how to write a fugue using the melody of "Oops, I Did It Again."

The head of the IAU's planetary nomenclature committee Tells All about the dwarf planet decision. And now that Pluto isn't a full planet, the organization responsible for tracking and labeling all non-planetary bodies has given it a number: it's asteroid 134340.

Meanwhile, astronomy news that was overshadowed by that whole foofaraw, proof that dark matter exists. This would be dark matter that interacts with our luminescent matter only through gravity, not the other three forces such as electromagnetism, making it invisible and penetrable: light passes through it without touching, and our matter passes through it without touching, and so on. See also this commentary. Both these blogs are worth reading, btw, if you like mathy and astrophysicy bits.

The answer of where to go after cats in sinks is, clearly, kittens in a jar.

Noted without comment: Hipsterotica (not quite SFW)

---L.

Comments

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Interesting that Hipsterotica uses a lot of second-person narration. You don't see a lot of that.

[larryhammer]

True -- though some of it is really first person, with a focus on someone addressed.

---L.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_twilight_/]

Bwahahaha especially at the first and last ones.

[larryhammer]

:-)