Casiello Family Weblog

Check out this movie being made by homeschooling teens – the trailer is impressive! (and I’m not just saying that cuz some of my kids are going to be in it.)

(via Fark)

A new milking method is being tried in England –
a robot that milks cows

(I definitely need a new category just for farm animals!)

At least that’s the illusion James Dyson creates in his entry ‘Wrong Garden’ for the Chelsea (England) Flower Show

(via Metafilter)

The kilogram is losing weight! (NYT link requries registration)

At least, the refence kilogram, defined by a platinum-iridium cylinder, has lost 50 micrograms, so scientists are looking for a new way of defining the kilogram, perhaps as a certain number of molecules of an element. They’re probably afraid they’ll look fat next to a slimmer, trimmer kilogram at parties.

Happy 100th Birthday to Bob Hope

This guy is amazing – his career covered vaudeville, radio, Broadway, movies, and TV, not to mention entertaining troops from World War II to Desert Storm. A cool guy.

(via New Scientist)

Maybe not as small as the one in Men In Black, but these galaxies are pretty darn small!

(via Dave Barry’s blog)

A Calculator for the Pax Americanus.

The BBC has recreated a Dr Who story – Shada – on the web as a Flash animation. This story was written by Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker’s Guide fame, but filming was never finished, so it never made it on the air. Episodes are being added weekly.

(what about his back?)

Four years after his last album, Running With Scissors, Weird Al Yankovic is back with Poodle Hat

I don’t usually indulge in commecial plugs, but I really liked his last album, (especially It’s All About The Pentiums, and Horoscope) so what the heck! (By the way, I will accept bribes!)

(via IP)

www.alberteinstein.info came online today, a joint project of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and CalTech.

Digitized images of over 900 documents written by Einstein; his scientific and non-scientific writings, diaries, and correspondence, and a database of documents by and about Einstein.

(via IP)

A new study concludes that politicians lie!

The reason: People ask them questions.

(via Puzzlepieces)

From Comedy Centrals’ The Daily Show, it’s Bush v. Bush

(via ST)

This is why!

(Actually, I have no idea if air traffic controllers are paid a lot. They sure deserve to be; and after seeing this, you couldn’t pay me enough!)

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PlanetMath.org is a (well, I’ll let them say it) “free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The stress is on peer review, rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and community-drivenness.”

Great reference site.

But don’t forget about Mathword, hosted by Wolfram Research, the Mathematica folks.

If you don’t find it on one of these sites, it ain’t math!

Somebody’s been playing too much Everquest:

Has Anybody Here Seen My Corpse?

This site has been around for a while, it’s a great look at how pennies add up.

Don’t miss the bonus section!

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Flash Flash Revolution

For when ya gotta dance, but just don’t want to get off your big fat…easy chair.