I’ve vacuumed my living room carpet (several times) and cleaned up all those dirty party dishes in the kitchen (several times), so here are some links to sweep up on a sweeping array of subjects…like one giant snake that at 992 pounds (450 kilogram) needs to consider a New Year’s diet program…a brief interview with Mars guru Robert Zubrin (maybe he should be called a zuru?)…a 25 km^2 Chinese poison gas death zone counts sleeping children among its 200+ casualties…fungi keep Christmas chocolates coming…a robot Tarzan swings thru the trees…a neat new avionics computer improves pilots’ vision…

a 50-year-old magnetic mystery is finally solved…deciding whether you should walk or run in the rain…that last one is an easy decision if you’ve got a 992 pound (450 kilogram) snake after you!

Time to go watch the previously unaired “Heart of Gold” episode on my Christmas gift Firefly DVD again. Hey, what’s not to like about a morality tale over child custody rights that plays out as a gunbattle at a bordello? Best line said during said gunbattle: “Wash, where the hell is my spaceship?”