May 31st, 2008, 1 Comment »
Last week I asked for advice about buying the world’s best drying rack for laundry. Thanks to everybody who contributed. I haven’t acted on that advice, and hurray for my laziness! Because Chelsea came by and left this comment:
I recently spent a good amount of time looking into the various clothesline and drying rack options since my college (Pomona College in Claremont, California) is going to purchase some for student use and I wanted to get the best available racks for us.
In my research, I was shocked to find that there is NO good website explaining all the different clotheslines and drying rack options, so I made my own!
Another tiny win for the participatory web. That is one robust wiki on drying your clothes.
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September 16th, 2007, 3 Comments »
While snorkeling yesterday, I saw the most remarkable thing I’ve seen underwater:
It’s a Cassiopea jellyfish. That’s not my photo, but the one I saw looked very similar. It’s strikingly large–the one I saw was probably a foot in diameter. Its undulating motion was hypnotizing. Two interesting facts about this species: juvenile fish often make take temporary shelter among its tentacles–you can see some sand smelt (I think) doing this in another photo. The other fact comes from Wikipedia:
Sometimes this jellyfish is picked up by a crab (Dorippe frascone) and carried on its back. The crab uses the jellyfish to defend itself against possible predators.
I’ve become addicted to the Facebook version of Scrabble, Scrabulous. After playing a word, the app loaded new letters into my tray. Entirely at random, look what it spelled:
What’re the odds? And when is Hasbro going to sue whoever made that Facebook app?
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