General

YARR!! My Pirate Name is Captain Jack Kidd!

Beth taught me how to clean a shower curtain.

Ooh, sonic weapons to combat mosquitos.

Wil Wheaton has a weblog. Which reminds me, I need to get Stand By Me on DVD.

Hooray! It’s Robyn‘s birthday! For seven short days each year, Robyn’s the same age as me, which makes me feel immensely better.

Send her some birthday noogies now!

I so want this table.

Hey kids! You can buy some ferrofluid and make your own weird magnetic sculptures!

Hundreds of people in southwestern Germany are complaining about a maddening buzzing noise. The noise only occurs at night, and does not seem to correlate to any known source of noise pollution, such as traffic noise or sounds made by electronic appliances.

The main page is here, but it’s in German, so use Babelfish to translate it.

I wonder if this could be linked with the Taos Hum heard in some spots around the world?

Another Minion added today: go visit Genie‘s page of madness!

Wearing a pair of Levi’s jeans? Chances are, your zipper is engraved with the letters “YKK”, and was manufactured by the YKK corporation. The letters YKK stand for the name of the original company: Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, founded in 1934.