Casiello Family Weblog

(from Busy, Busy, Busy via L.M.B.)

CNN’s Aaron Brown interviews Daniel Ellsberg

Remember him? Pentagon Papers? Well, he’s not crazy about this war, either.

(via MemePool)

A drawing toy? Kaleidoscope? You decide. Or just have fun.

This one’s a little easier to categorize: Etch-a-Sketch!

I wonder if you can go back and forth over one area to see the mechanism inside?

from Lisa Rein via boing boing

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on the Halliburton contract (9 Mb .mov file).

The war has started. There’s not much I can add do what Dan Gillmor has already said.

Increase milk production through music

Umm, this is about cows. Everyone else, you’re on your own.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~pazzani/4H/Java/GoatPartsTest.html

From the Home-Ed list

The Periodic Table of Haiku.

Happi Pi Day!
It’s 3/14, making it Pi day, AND Albert Einstein‘s birthday.
NOVA’s Einstein Revealed site
The Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 3/14 is Israel’s National Science day!
Okay, pi gets a link, too!
Some Pi day songs

Gaah! Another day, another pile of snow here in New England. At least Joanne and Damon are heading out tomorrow for the Jefferson Cup soccer tournament. Unfortunately, I’m not.
I’m almost too sick of looking at snow to post this: Snow Crystal Photographs (via Boing Boing)

Dave Barry‘s latest is a shocking…shocking!…exposé of rampant cheating in livestock shows – udder tampering.

Everybody loves homestarrunner.net! “It’s dot-com!”
Of course, you’re really going there for the Strong Bad emails. Seriously.

(via Boing Boing)
The Beastie Boys have a new anti-war song, and they’re offering free downloads on their site. The lyrics are posted there as well.

New York Times link (requires free registration)
It turns out that the universe may actually be shaped like…a doughnut!

Goalkeepers do it with their eyes shut
Peril-sensitive sunglasses are real! In a study, Australian goalkeepers are wearing glasses which black out at certain times when they’re defending penalty kicks.