I wanna be an astronaut when I grow up Thirty-five years ago yesterday, Apollo 11 launched, and man landed on the moon for the first time a few days later. There is a good post with several interesting links at MetaFilter: Apollo 11 (+35). Science is fun Here’s one for the science teachers and geeks […]

Comic Calvin and Hobbes is probably my favourite comic strip, so I was really happy to find Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn’s, which claims to be “one of the most popular, most complete and most original Calvin and Hobbes sites on the Web!” And I dare say that the claim is justified. A neat feature […]

Community Projects BookCrossing is “a global book club that crosses time and space. It’s a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. […] Our goal, simply, is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind.” To participate, get a BookCrossing label […]

Music New York Post: Billy Joel as classical composer. Link via Garret. Billy Joel is one of my favourite musicians. He wrote some wonderful songs. I especially like Summer, Highland Falls and Say Goodbye to Hollywood a lot. I have notes for the songs, but they’re too difficult for me to play on the piano. […]