Quality Post

I know I've been updating at a fairly frantic pace - but I just keep coming across some real quality links that I have to share with everyone. Don't you feel lucky?

I made a realization yesterday when I noticed there was less than 1 day left on the count-down to the Monte Carlo WRC; I've been building this up for 20+ days now, and it just go "uhm, its going" kind of seems anti-climatic.

On that note: "uhm, its going" (maybe I'll come up with something this weekend)

Now, two quality websites. The first one is a website that claims to help get your monitor clean (if there is any dirt on it). I was extremely skeptical at first, but I have to say, it works best if you have your browser maximized when you click on the link:

http://www.linein.org/media/screenclean.swf

Second Website does a very good job showing how massive space is. I know I've linked a couple of these before, and blah blah you're a nerd - but this one just has a simple staged approach that leaves you feeling mighty small at the end.

It starts at 12.5 light years and lets you slowly zoom out. Take a moment to look at the page before zooming out. It ends with the 'estimated' known universe @ ~14 billion+ light years

http://www.ldps.ws/Mirror/Universe/12lys.html

Lastly, since I have your thinking caps on - some great Quotes from the brightest man alive right now.

Stephen Hawking's:

10. "Einstein was wrong when he said "God does not play dice". Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen."

9. "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

8. "My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

7. "I find that American & Scandinavian accents work better with women." In response to a question about the American accent of his synthesiser.

6. "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. In the end, however, I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc2. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."

5. "My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."

4. "To show this diagram properly, I would really need a four dimensional screen. However, because of government cuts, we could manage to provide only a two dimensional screen."

3. "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."

2. "The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."

1. "Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end."