On the LHC and Black Holes.

According to the Large Hadron Collider’s wiki page, the first attempt to fling particles around the loop is September 10 this year. The first proper test smashing of particles will be after it’s officially unveiled on October 21st 2008. I love the speculation and hype surrounding the LHC and it’s ability to make black holes.(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 2 comments | August 31, 2008 at 10:31 am

Augie March’s New Single!

Very much anticipating the new album, should be a corker. To tide you over til the album’s October 11th release date the single ‘Watch me Disappear‘ is available for free download. Grab it from the AugieMarch.com, or from somewhere in the depths of the TripleJ website.

by Jarod | 2 comments | August 31, 2008 at 10:07 am

The LEGO Olympics are over!

Egads! It’s over! 17 Olympic themed LEGO photos in 17 days. I don’t want to see another LEGO piece of bit of Olympic coverage for a while, but I do like the gallery of creative LEGO photos I’ve ended up with as a result. And for those too lazy to click that link…. scroll!!

by Jarod | one comment | August 24, 2008 at 8:04 am

I promise I’ll stop after this one

Things are probably way broken right now cause I’m implementing a slight revision to the look and a major revision to the backend code of jarodandliz.com. Normal services will resume shortly when I stop eating chocolate and start fine tuning everything. edit: okay, semi normal services have resumed. and clearly i’m too drunk to be(click to read the full post)

by Jarod | 2 comments | August 22, 2008 at 6:47 pm

When life gives you hills…

… build a seriously cool house on them. Undeterred by the steep hills in Northern Portugal, this architecturally designed house was built embracing them, and literally winds its way down the slope.

by Jarod | no comments | August 18, 2008 at 8:29 pm

Another roundup. Hurrah!

A video raising awareness about cerebellar hypoplasia (in cats). I don’t know why anyone would put a kitten that had those characteristics down, just think of how entertaining that’s gonna be as it gets older. (Apparently it doesn’t hurt, so that makes it okay.) We bought some more wine today, and when I visited their(click to read the full post)

by Liz | no comments | August 30, 2008 at 10:15 pm

More cuttlefish murderers…

Jarod finally took me to a restaurant for dinner (and by accident, too), which was delightful. But I was shocked and appalled to see that they proudly sold cuttlefish. Dead cuttlefish. How mean! So, instead, I ate a dead cow instead. Which is okay because it clearly isn’t as smart as a cubblefish. I’ve never(click to read the full post)

by Liz | no comments | August 22, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Old but good

Haiku error messages: Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. — First snow, then silence. This thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully. — Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. — Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now(click to read the full post)

by Liz | one comment | August 19, 2008 at 8:09 pm

Only in Mt. Gambier…

“A Mount Gambier woman has warned the community against cleaning lawnmowers in bedrooms while smoking” Oh, good. Via Tim Blair’s blog