Fun, geeky stuff

I get a lot of my science news from email newsletters from New Scientist and from the Australian Broadcasting Company's "ABC Science Updates."

Go take a look at the quizzes on ABC's site - which element are you?

Velvet Fog

Happy Birthday to Mel Torme - born September 13, 1925.

I have been working on my calendar for 2008 and noticed that today deserves a mention. Torme was arguably one of the greatest male jazz vocalists of all time, an actor, song writer (collaborator with Bob Wells on "The Christmas Song," as well as being a licensed pilot (thanks, Wiki).