From Debby my Odd Link Gal:

Starship Dimensions.World Wide Telescope is a virtual telescope that uses real images taken by the Hubble and other telescopes knitted together seamlessly. It’ll launch online this spring at worldwidetelescope.org, but there are some videos about it there now.Hubble image of a ring of dust around star Fomalhaut, described by New Scientist as resembling ‘the Great Eye of Sauron’.” Wired article on autistics’ rights. Link Another Wired article, this one on the secret shoppers used by Consumer Reports. Link Fertile women in relationships dig single men. Worried about your mortgage? How about just not paying it? Some banks have lost the notes on the mortgages they “own,” and can’t prove that deadbeat homeowners owe them any money. An estimated $2.1 trillion worth of these mortgages are “orphaned” with no apparent owner. Link Related – here’s a stick figure explanation of the effects of subprime mortgage problems. Link Leaked images of an upcoming Space line from LEGO.Blind Man Regains Sight After Doctors Implant Son’s Tooth in His Eye.Video of a bat flying in a wind tunnel.The Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego had an exhibition of work by forty mathematician/artists. Link Product list from the Echo Park Time Travel Mart. Lots of cool items for your next trip through time, including Barbarian Repellant, Anti-Robot spray, Viking Odorant, and the always-useful liquid versions of various dead languages. Click on the photos.Evidence that L. Rob Hubbard plagiarised Scientology from a 1934 German book called “Scientologie.” Link Really cool pools.Color-blind artist who could only recognize black and white shades has been fitted with a device called an Eyeborg, which converts 360 colors into different sounds. Link pi10k converts the first 10,000 numbers in pi to musical notes – you decide which notes correspond to each integer. Link