Wayward notes and Comments from the ether in my eyes

The Ruben's Tube: Proving that basic science concepts are more fun to learn when you add open flames since 1904. Want to build your own? There's an Instructables for that. Thumbnail image courtesy Flickr user tom_adams, via CC....

Davesbit made his own globe using maps from the Generic Mapping Tools project; he used a beachball for a mold and cast the sphere with fiberglass and foam. here is the plastic beach ball covered in paint for the inside of the sphere-half mold... the stand was made from scraps of red oak from a compu ...

The TSA says you can't carry a snow-globe onto a plane, even if it fits in your freedom baggie, because they can't measure how much liquid it contains, and therefore it must contain more than three oz of potential explosive, um, water. TSA, meet Archimedes. He lived over 2,000 years ago and figured ...

Ape Lad sez, "I've taken the shape of the default twitter avatar and adapted it to some non-bird characters. I still haven't figured out how to fit Galactus into that shape." Twitter Avatars (Thanks, Adam!) Previously:Catoonn avatar videoconferencing - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Interview with an avat ...

Image link. Devin McGrath. (via galadarling via Susannah Breslin)...

Ontario's deputy health minister, Ron Sapsford, a key figure in the eHealth fiasco and one of the most highly paid and powerful civil servants in the province, resigned suddenly on Friday. ...

When no one was around, Jassi Kaur quietly slipped into her niece's room, where the 19-year-old woman sat huddled in a corner sobbing.

Two personal attributes leap to mind upon meeting George Smitherman in his sky-high downtown condo: overwhelming confidence and the kind of energy that blasts you back on your heels. ...

From beyond where the moon sparkled on the river came the sound of a high-powered motorboat. The engine throttled back for an instant, as if waiting for a signal.

In less than a minute, with three simple sentences, three B.C. Court of Appeal judges dismissed the dreams of 14 female ski jumpers who have been fighting for years for inclusion in the Ol ...