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The world gets a little hornier

Two new horn-faced, plant-eating dinosaurs discovered! And one has the Geekiest Name Ever.

There’s a first time for everything

For years when traveling I’ve not paid much attention to the flight attendants’ spiel about using your seat cushions for flotation in case of a water landing. Aside from the fact it’s boring, there isn’t any such thing as a jetliner making a safe water landing. They usually wind up like that hijacked Ethiopian [...]

A disaster movie waiting to happen?

Does anybody else find this, ah, disturbing? Wired.com informs us that Drillers Accidentally Create First Live Magma Observatory.

That’s right: workers at a geothermal site in Hawai’i accidentally busted into a pool of live magma. Which, as we all know, is lava that has yet to come out.

What could possibly go wrong?

Oh.

In other, totally, [...]

Now, this is cool.

Sorry I’ve been out of touch. I’ve enjoyed juggling a sick car and a sick me while trying to catch up on various writing deadlines. I’m at last in the process of tying off the loose writing ends (the car seems to’ve been restored to health, if expensively; I’m still on the dicey side) and [...]

My technophilia notwithstanding…

… I seriously love -

Cthulhu for you!

- this.

Click the image to visit Cracked.com‘s latest list,from which I got it: The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World.

Cracked.com is uneven, but they do hit fairly frequently, especially with their hilarious – and occasionally thought-provoking – lists. Mystery: Cracked magazine has always been a [...]