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http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~charlie/3body/ Physically possible (i.e. gravitationally possible) arrangements of planets. 08:12

http://www.theonion.com/content/most_emailed 07:06

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/refmaps.html Pretty reference maps. (Printable versions too.) 22:25

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/050916.html “How did rocks from Mars end up here on Earth?” 23:06

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1461751.htm Man and his synthetic clothes builds up thousands of volts of static electricity, starts scorching things. 17:26

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,
1564369,00.html “Nobody dumbs down the finance pages. Imagine the fuss if I tried to stick the word ‘biophoton’ on a science page without explaining what it meant. I can tell you, it would never get past the subs or the section editor. But use it on a complementary medicine page, incorrectly, and it sails through.”

(In an introductions to one of the essays in Mark Bowden’s Road Work, he writes that it won an award for science writing, which was “proof positive that you didn’t need to know a lick about science to conquer science writing.” The essay itself isn’t bad, but this is a dangerous attitude—particularly when so cavalierly expressed!) 17:03

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/finance/article.jsp?content=20050822_
110877_110877 Leonard Cohen possibly broke. 00:11

http://www.semapedia.org/ Make camera-phone ready “barcodes” for URLs. Intended for pasting Wikipedia URLs on monuments, but it works with any URL. (And arbitrarily long ones, too—it seems to deal with these by making the “barcode” finer and finer. (I guess this is all somewhat similar to the CueCat.) 18:25

http://www.snopes.com/photos/katrina/looters.asp On black people “looting” and white people “finding.” 02:29

http://www.slate.com/id/2125684/ Dahlia Lithwick on Rehnquist. 19:01

http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/120103/popup/slideshow1.html Alice-in-Wonderland-inspired Leibovitz/Vogue picks. 19:01