Merry Christmas

Corn Starch + Water = Science

Take two parts corn starch, to one part water. Mix the cornstarch into the water slowly, it takes a while!

At the end of it, you have a bowl full of a very strange liquid.

Ben and I spent some time playing with this today!

Google PDF Viewer

It's bloody amazing!

They actually render a PNG to your browser.  So the page you see is just a picture of the PDF they've decoded on the server.  That's not the cleaver part though! 

They trap the mouse events (down/move/up) to fake the text selection and they trap the control+C, so you can select the text in the original PDF.  This is despite the fact that your browser has no idea there's any text there :-o

Splendid stuff.

Geek-out!

Best way to kill a frog?

Ben's pet frog is lame. Well, it's been that way for a few months. But now it seems to have a defective swim bladder(+) as it's unable to get under the water and it lists to starboard. Infact it's entirely on it's side.

Debbie wants me to put it out of it's misery.

It's quite easy for someone to say they want a frog killed, but if your the one tasked with the act, it's not that simple.

- Hit it with a brick?
- Chop it's head off?
- Lethal Injection?
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Cyonide Tablets



(+) I'm assuming they have some kind of bladder for buoyancy control, but I could be wrong! I ain't no frog expert, frogologist, whatever.