Cool History Fun.

Observe the effects of historic nuclear weapons on your hometown.

Thanks, John Kasaian!

Strangely peaceful...

...plus you learn how to make home-made napalm.

Very Cool.

Storm p*rn.

A transformer explodes during Hurricane Sandy.

Unemployment visualized.

Look how California is lit up.

The Starry Night ...

...as Van Gogh literally saw it.

This comes from Io9.

What it's like to be a booster rocket falling from 8 miles in space.

Io9 provides the clip.

Uber-cool!

Scale of the universe - from Quantum Foam to the Cosmos.

Via the King of Cool.

More on the objective nature of beauty...

...and totally cool.

Check out this video on a "murmuration" of starlings:



Here is the explanation.

Amazing Photo.

This site explains the picture:

This is the terrifying moment a cloud threatened to develop into a full blown TORNADO over a row of family homes. Brave snapper Pat Kavanagh took this shot of an explosive black storm from the roof of his house in Taber, Canada last month. Expecting the sunny weather to take a turn for the worse he watched intently as the billows started spinning into a furious funnel. This pic was created by stitching together multiple photographs in a vertical panorama. (Photo: PAT KAVANAGH / CATERS NEWS)

Via Cartego Delenda Est.

Cool!



Via Mark Shea.

Studly!

World Traffic

This is so cool

Forget the Ipad.  I want the Microsoft Courier.

Cool Internet Stuff

Check out the reconstruction of the Bay Bridge with moveable cams.

Book/Cover

This is cool.

Susan Boyle on Britain Got Talent
by dwarthy

You already know who is #1

Top 50 Hottest Sci-fi Girls.

Cool.

Argue among yourselves if they got the top ten right.

Personally, I think that Ellen Ripley deserved to be in the top 10.

Plus, as an added feature, here is some dating advice from three "dating gurus", so if you ever have a shot at 7 of 9 you won't blow it.

Their collective advice boils down to "don't be a wimp."

That's good advice for dealing with any of the 50 on the list.

The only way to fly.

Tiger, Tiger burning bright...

Things that might not be in Aquinas.

Here is a primer on demon possession and exorcism.

Here's one odd fact offered by the exorcist:

And once it's said it?

At the end, the priest says to the demon, "Go away! Disappear!" The demon usually answers, "No, I don't want to." It rebels and revolts. Sometimes it says "You have no power over me. You are nothing to me." But after a while, its resistance weakens. This usually happens after the invocation of the Holy Mother, she's very important for that. No demon ever dares to insult her during an exorcism. Never.

Does he have more respect for Mary than for God himself?

Apparently. Otherwise no holds are barred, and everyone is insulted: the priests, everyone present, the bishops, the Pope, even Jesus Christ. But never the Virgin Mary. It's an enigma.

It seems that the message is not to insult Jesus' mom.