Today’s gratuitous kitten pictures: kittens in a pot or a handful of kittens.

Residents of East Brunswick, NJ, take their salamanders seriously and, at least based on this year’s activities, it would appear their efforts have been successful.  [via Biomes Blog]

Real suicide notes.  It’s very disturbing, very much like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

If you like viewing the cosmos, you’ll find What’s Up 2006 – 365 Days of Skywatching worth the download as a fantastic daily reference of what’s showing.  I’ve found this to be a wonderful companion to my telescope and astronomy software.

The recent solar eclipse as seen from the International Space Station.  That’s a very cool photo.

And speaking of the eclipse…  Go read No Stars For The Eclipse.  It’s quite humorous if not heretical.

Reebok wants your children to die.

Deep-Sea News has a great article on ocean habitats.

It’s your tax dollars hard at work in the DHS.  They’re subsidizing billion-dollar-profit oil companies in the name of security.

An extensive study on prayer shows it doesn’t work, and in fact often made patients worse if they knew they were being prayed for.  Oops.