This Is Just Cool!

I can’t recall exactly how I found this video, but I remember the comment said this is one of the coolest geeks you will find. I have to agree. Sorry for the language right in the beginning mom. It’s also a little long, but I think this ‘nerd girl’ is going to become an Internet [...]

Google users in the United States will notice today that Google "turned the lights out" on the Google.com homepage (see screen shot below) as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why they don’t do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the [...]

This picture was taken near Gordon, WI a few years ago.
Not just any mother bear and her cub, but a black bear with a white cub. I don’t know how rare it is for a black bear to have a white cub but at least we can say we’ve seen it no matter how rare [...]

 An Ice wave from the floor of Lake Huron near Mackinaw Island …..
Michigan has had the coldest winter in decades. Water expands to freeze, and at Mackinaw City the water in Lake Huron below the surface ice was super cooled. It expanded to break through the surface ice and froze into this incredible wave.
[turns [...]

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
2. [...]

An 83-year-old great-grandmother thwarted a would-be purse snatcher with a gas nozzle and an iron grip.
Bernie Garcia, of Santa Fe, NM,  said a young man approached her at a gas station as she was buying fuel for her van and asked for money. When she told him she had spent all her spare change on gas, [...]