I have no words to say, on this slow and useless day

The image that I reposted yesterday was also part of a larger Flickr group "Song Chart", where many more song lyrics have been turned into charts or formulas, one way or the other. It's a great effort. Some of my favorites are this, this and this one (pic below).

There's a realy nice image from APOD of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with accompanying text. The LHC is the largest particle accelator around, and will be finished in May. Parts of the LHC are produced by the Nikhef institute, which is right down from the hall where I work. They even have a countdown clock hanging in the main hallway to countdown to the moment when the first experiments are executed. It's been in place since I work at my current job. And it's nice to slowly see LHC news everywhere.

(via Jeremy Zawodny)

Dutch compound splitting can sometimes result in unintended effects. From an ad:

Tamme konijnen bouten in pruimensaus.

Heh.

(Hat tip: Maarten Marx)

Ha! Please read my entry from a couple of days ago again, and then read this, that made the news yesterday:

Scientists who resurrected the 1918 "Spanish flu" virus that killed as many as 50 million people said on Wednesday they are beginning to understand why it caused such a deadly pandemic and say it could happen again.

I think the guys from Numb3rs did their background checking well :).(via Boing Boing)