Electric Josh

A kid from Barnet, a kid from Essex Junction, and Tom Brennan all just showed up in quick succession on national television. They're ahead of UConn by three halfway through the first half. Are you kidding me? This looks like it might actually be close! Update: Now the Cats are taking all these horrible outside shots already down ten near the end of the first half, so this is probably the beginning of the end. Update: CBS has decided to show Princeton vs. Texas, which does us no good. I'm "watching" the game here. Update: So, I must say, the only thing worse than watching your team slowly lose is not watching them lose because the largest CBS affiliate in New England has somehow decided not to concentrate on the game between the State universities of two New England states, preferring instead an only marginally closer game between schools from New Jersey and Texas, both of which are much further away from Boston than either Connecticut or Vermont. 70-53. Alas.
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I'd like to think that I'd be going to see G. Love and Special Sauce tonight if it weren't for family commitments, but I probably would have missed this one anyway. Ah well. Better to hang out with the baby while listening to one of the first two G. Love albums (at a volume that's reasonable for a baby, of course). My birthday's coming in a few months, you know...
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First-hand account (with pictures!) of the DARPA Grand Challenge, in which DOD wants driverless, autonomous (not remote controlled) vehicles to cross 200 miles or so of desert, with obstacles. Like the future scenes from the beginning of Terminator. Lemonodor has a good amount of coverage; the guy just drove out to Barstow and had a look.
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So I had always thought that this was an urban legend told by high school chemistry students, but it turns out that there really was a kid who won a science fair in 1997 (although I thought I'd heard about this when I was in high school—maybe it was just an urban legend back then) by describing the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical whose molecules are each composed of two hydrogens and one oxygen—hmmm... I mention this because some clowns on the city council (!) in Orange County, California just recently got taken in by this and were ready to try to ban foam cups because they're manufactured using the dread substance. Oh man. Ars has the poop.
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