This post, the utimate everything you want to know about black holes without reading Hawking’s book. My faves:

* Hawking now says that, instead of destroying data, a black hole will eventually spit it out in a mangled form - much like shoving a classified document down your pants and then later pulling it out again.

* Just because a hole is black doesn’t mean it’s a “black hole.” Check if the hole has a strong gravitational force that rends your atoms apart for confirmation.

And one from one of Frank J’s commenters who are almost as witty as he is.

* liberal ideas cannot be disposed of into a black hole, for they completely lack any sort of substance. Baseball bats and .45 ACP still works on those, though.

Amusement thanks to Michelle Malkin who’s become a daily read. Still mulling over the t-shirt I want, link here.

She really did say that, yes she did. Quoting the San Diego Union-Tribune

“My career has befuddled other people, and it’s befuddled me,” admitted Ronstadt, 58, who finds her fans are polarized by her nightly on-stage salute to “Fahrenheit 9/11″ filmmaker Michael Moore.

“I’ve been dedicating a song to him - I think he’s a great patriot - and it splits the audience down the middle, and they duke it out,” she said.

Great? Patriot? Spit. Soda.

“This is an election year, and I think we’re in desperate trouble and it’s time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know.”

Yeah, and I’d rather not buy. Thanks Zygote for another raving moonbat quote. You did miss quoting the funnier one.

So I’d better link it, a pic of Jay’s new PC he built himself. See, he shared links for all the parts and I was excited to see the finished product.

Even if it isn’t a Mac.

One kitten, Izzy’s so cute.

Cats of interest, pretty cats, sure beats being a “person of interest.”

Note, he’ll become a “suspect” after the body is found.

Has political correctness gone too far?

One of my friends emailed me a pic of her beloved chi, Peanut, and I couldn’t resist. She got the stuff at Pam’s Pampered Puppies for those so inclined.

Her site, more Peanut and note - she really knows how to dress a dog. I will so not dress my cats as I don’t have a burning desire to be shredded like coleslaw.

Not in Iraq, nope, not in Iraq according to WND.

U.S. and Iraqi officials are denying a newspaper report claiming nuclear weapons have been found near Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit.

The Iraqi daily Al-Sabah reported three missiles armed with nuclear warheads were found in a concrete trench.

Probably a good thing it was not true cause if Saddam knew about them, he probably would have used them before now. Not on a ship off the coast of Delaware either according to Reuters.

U.S. officials boarded a Turkish ship in the Delaware River on Thursday after the vessel’s captain — angry at delays caused by separate Coast Guard security checks — said there was a bomb on board, a Coast Guard official said.

The captain quickly retracted the statement and said he did not mean it, but maritime security officials boarded the ship for a bomb check anyway.

Not a joking matter either. Eediot!

While in Boston, right across from the Fleet Center too, this lovely sign at Halftime Pizza which will be closed for the convention.

Let them eat waffles instead.

Finally, they found part of the guy. From the Saudi embassy is this news and, yes, I am a bit behind here.

During the search of the residence, security forces recovered from a freezer the severed head of Mr. Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr., the American who was kidnapped and murdered last month by Al-Qaeda

Ewwww! Gross, shades of Jeffrey Dahmer here. Didn’t find the rest of him but the did find other stuff.

Security forces also uncovered an arms cache that included rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades, pipe bombs of various sizes, ammunition, and various other explosive materials as well as a large amount of cash.

Wonder what they were planning? And where’s the rest of him?

And what was I thinking when I signed up for that mailing list?

Taking an online survey, came across a really dumb question.

Do you have access to the Internet or any on-line computer services - either at home or at work?

Uh, who thinks up these questions? I was online, eediots!

Speaking of waffles, this is hilarious. Gotta have some fun with my breakfast.

To a diagnosis not that they don’t already have a clue. Went to doc’s. All my labs were normal so all the things they were ruling out, I don’t have. The visual evoked potentials were abnormal, delayed, how much I don’t know. Probably should have asked but I didn’t. But going by the McDonald criteria for diagnosing MS “DIS=disseminated in space, DIT=disseminated in time,” they want to see another MRI. Giving me Solu-Medrol now would screw up the MRI so not doing that. Must make sure the spots I do have aren’t old age spots.

They did increase the Neurontin cause the dose I am on isn’t cutting it, it’s barely taking the edge off the trigeminal neuralgia. Might help with the rest of the numbness/neuralgia too. Won’t help with my typos thou. Must. Use. Spell. Check.

And they are ordering an urgent urological consult to see exactly what is going on so they correctly treat that problem. And I do believe I passed the stone. Don’t know if there’s more thou.

Much relieved with knowing what there is to know, time for some breakfast, waffles sounds good.