Science Etcetera Mooday, 20071210

December 10th, 2007

Dammit! Dammit! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!!! That #$%&ing fuel sensor has prevented the shuttle from launching again!!! Now it won’t launch until January, meaning we won’t make the four launches hoped for this year. I’m gonna go pout in the corner after blogging this.

Glucoboy

This is awesome. Glucoboy is a blood glucose meter for kids and is integrated with games to reward kids for maintaining healthy blood-sugar levels. It requires a drop of blood per test, which might scare many kids away, but I think more kids would get over the needle fear.

Microsoft has taken down its online A.I. Santa Claus for talking lewdly to children when badgered too much.

Surprise. Surprise. Saudi Arabian and Oil Industry stooge George Bush still won’t commit to greenhouse gas caps at the conference in Bali. 406 days left and counting.

“Dickens appropriated many of the elements of evolutionary theory into his work,” is a quote from the interesting article, Of Dickens and Darwin, which explores the crossbreeding of ideas between literature and science.

My video game playing days are over, but the trailer for Afrika really piques my interest: