Take a look at this snowflake under extreme magnification.  Scroll all the way down the page to see the closer scans.  Wow!  [via Mark at Biomes Blog]

Don’t miss Weekend Cat Blogging #80 over at kitchenmage.  You’ll find plenty of links to photos and stories (assuming she has power and wasn’t blown away by the storms up in the Pacific Northwest).

Time‘s Person of the Year for 2006 is none other than you and you and you and you.  Surprisingly insightful for having realized at least some of the inherent quality of widespread use of the web by individuals, even when such use can “make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred,” the magazine saw in the last year what heretofore failed to be noticed while it built up enough mass and momentum to snowball into the history books: “But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.”  Go read the article.  Cheesy thought it might be, it does recognize the newfound force that has taken shape via the web and its many faces.