travelina commented on Japanese Team Creates Working Space Elevator... Made of Lego Blocks

"Space elevators rock!"

travelina commented on Five Ways Technology Has Changed the Olympics

"@Illuminatus: more on Olympic architecture and the Beijing building boom in NatGeo's special issue on China: [ngm.nationalgeographic.com]"

travelina commented on The New Hottest Spot in the Milky Way

"I hate to disappoint y'all, but I believe that photo was actually taken by the Hubble Space Kaleidoscope: [www.theonion.com]"

travelina commented on Five Brain Hacks That Will Help You Survive a Disaster

"Speaking of zombies, here's a hypothetical screen-grab of what Twitter would look like during the first minutes of a zombie outbreak: [kensingtonvictoria.com]"

travelina commented on Oh Canada, Bring Me My Zeppelin

"What I want is my own personal blimp, like this one being developed in Amherst, Mass.: [intelligenttravel.typepad.com]"

travelina commented on Gas Only Available to Those Who Win the Lottery

"Right, and in Zimbabwe, where inflation is 165,000 percent, food has become such a luxury that only Mugabe supporters are eligible for it: [www.timesonline.co.uk]"

travelina commented on How to Shut Down an Internet Argument

"Another way to shut down an internet argument is to post a video about cross-species love or ducklings in a bathtub: [www.boingboing.net] [www.boingboing.net] Aaawwwwwww!"

travelina commented on Faceless Droids Stalk The Wealthy

"You don't have to be wealthy to get into Wimbledon."

travelina commented on The Truth About Microscopic Black Holes and the Utter Destruction of Earth

"More mind-blowing photos of CERN on National Geographic's site: [ngm.nationalgeographic.com]"

travelina commented on Prison Food Stunt Always Amusing

"Well at least they don't have to eat Marmite like in Australian prisons: [news.bbc.co.uk] Also, instead of complaining the prisoners should practice dance routines like the orange jumpsuited dancers at the Cebu Detention Center in the Philippines-- they got so famous with their "Thriller" performance on YouTube that they've become a tourist attraction, drawing hundreds of visitors at their monthly shows: [intelligenttravel.typepad.com]"

travelina commented on Get the Story Blueprint for Pixar's John Carter of Mars -- Free Online!

"Wonder what Tars Tarkas will look like?"

travelina commented on Our Weirdest Hulk And Doctor Who Rumors -- Confirmed!

"What if Matt Groening drew Dragonball?"

travelina commented on The Savage Colors of Naked, Toxic Sea Snails

"There's a little video that goes along with the photo gallery where David Doubilet talks about these creatures and how he photographed them."

travelina commented on Soak Your Head With The Greatest Cocktails From Science Fiction

"Whether you choose the Ol' Janx Spirit or a Sea Wasp Margarita, you're gonna need one of Jeeves' magic elixirs afterwards, as Bertie Wooster so often discovered: "Have you ever been struck by the number 10 bus from Basingstoke to Clapham whilst holding half a dozen eggs in one hand and a fruitbat in the other?"

travelina commented on Tmobile Call Center Bans Kleenex

"I think the supervisors need to sit under one of these nanometer wave machines and chill out: [io9.com]"

travelina commented on Dance, Robot Snake Girl, Dance!

"Howie Choset at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Lab has been building modular snake-bots for a while now-- here's a cool video of one climbing a vertical column, popping a floor vent, rolling along a pipe, swimming in a pond, etc: [download.srv.cs.cmu.edu]"

travelina commented on Two Ellie-Winning Stories

"Thanks for the links."