Some quality funny from PvP.

Stayin’ Foxy.

Wanda Sykes goodness.

No take down, won’t be deleted, trailer for Avatar.

Yeah, I had goosebumps watching it.

I can has Dismissal?

Judge Carter in Santa Ana has tossed out the latest greatest Birther hope, so back to the drawing board for the Birthers.

Can’t wait to hear the fall out from the tomorrow or next week when Jerry Corsi visits again with our morning wingnut.

Bootiful, man.

Word!

KMGH lists current (11am) snow fall amounts for the Denver area:

Here is a look at some of the most recent snowfall totals, as of 11 a.m.

18.1 inches – Golden
18 inches – Nederland
12 inches – Idledale
12 inches – Estes Park
9.3 inches – Conifer
8 inches – Black Hawk
8 inches – Tiny Town
6.5 inches – Wheat Ridge
6 inches – Fairplay
6 inches – Thornton
5 inches – Aurora
5 inches – Englewood
5 inches – Castle Rock
5 inches – Lakewood
4 inches – Centennial
3.5 inches – Denver

Yes, I am sure it is just a freak accident that those letter lined up like that.

Louis Slotin

At least until I read this post by Boing Boing about the History of Criticalities and the History of Criticalities in Russia during the cold war.

Though, sadly they link to the annoying scene from the Fat Man and Little Boy movie, that had a composite character of Slotin and Daghlian (as in Daghlain doing what Slotin did, kinda) because I guess dropping a Tungstun Carbide brick on a Plutonium Core is just not as cinematic as Slotin’s old screw driver between the Hemisphere’s trick.

Though, my all time favourite crit event story from safety classes, and a great example of how quickly something can go from a safe configuration, to unsafe, to safe and back to unsafe was the one that happened in 1958. Though, what is missing from the pdf is the part where when they turned of the stirrer, it caused the fluid in the vat to return to an unsafe configuration and re-crit.