Be sure to check out Carnival of the Cats #126.

Carnival Of The Godless #47 is full of great posts, so be sure to check it out.

The proof is here!  By monitoring the collision of two galaxies, we finally have the information necessary to prove that dark matter exists.

Recent events seem to indicate people are catching on to the fact that the president and his régime are violating the law and US Constitution on a regular basis, and they’re not putting up with it anymore.  “The U.S. government’s high-profile terror case against Jose Padilla and two other Muslims has suffered another serious setback as their Miami trial looms in January. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke threw out the first count in the indictment — that the threesome conspired to murder, kidnap and maim persons in a foreign country — saying it repeated the main alleged ‘conspiracy to advance violent jihad’ in two other charges. ‘There can be no question that the government has charged a single conspiracy offense multiple times, in separate counts, when in law and in fact, only one [alleged] crime has been committed,’ Cooke wrote in an eight-page ruling released to prosecutors and defense lawyers on Monday. ‘The danger raised by a multiplicitous indictment is present in the instant indictment,’ she wrote, stressing that it violates the ‘double jeopardy’ clause of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution — the prosecution or punishment of a defendant twice for the same offense.”  And indeed it does.  I’m thrilled that this is yet another facet of the American way of life that we will not allow Dubya et al. to violate.

Check out this cool picture from the ISS of the “South American Ubinas volcano [spewing] a thick plume of smoke…”

I just found a new blog that is science-related, although it’s more critical thinking than just science.  It’s called Thoughts from Kansas and is written by Joshua (Josh) Rosenau who “is a graduate student at the University of Kansas, in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.”  Oh, and he’s terribly cute.

Jake is right: It’s a fabulously annoying invention.  What invention, you ask?  Clocky.  It’s “an alarm clock that runs away and hides if you don’t get out of bed on time. The alarm sounds, you press the snooze, and Clocky will roll off of the bedside table, jump to the floor, and wheel away, bumping mindlessly into objects until he finds a spot to rest. When the alarm sounds again, you must awaken to search for him. Clocky will find new spots everyday, kind of like a hide-and-seek game. ”  It’s furry.  It looks for new places in which to hide.  It’s ugly.  But it seems like an idea that a lot of people could use.

I think they’re hamsters, but I could be wrong.  Irrespective, with a picture that cute, who cares!

Six horrifying parasites.  Not for the squeamish, but fascinating nonetheless.  [via Apostropher]