Freaky coincidences are a part of everyday life. With the internet, they become all the more easy to identify. For example, while browsing around Google Images looking for other Joker costumes. I came across these pictures on some guy's blog. If you scroll down to the middle of the page, you'll see that last year this guy's group of friends got together and had Batman Halloween party. What's really freaky? The guy who dressed up as the Joker was named Jesse. Ooooooo... It's a freaky alternate universe in Indiana. Freaky.

It's been year of awful tragedies, Tsunamis, Hurricanes, and now the earthquake in Pakistan/Kashmir. It seems there are much more pertinent things to worry about, but it still breaks my heart to learn that last night, the Aardman Animations building in Bristol was utterly destroyed by fire. The company which produced Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit has lost almost it's entire history in the fire. The sets and props for all three original Wallace and Gromit shorts, and Chicken Run have all been lost.

Last but not least, Dark Matter. Now, I don't certainly think of myself as an astrophysicist, but the whole concept of Dark Matter has always bugged the hell out of me. It seems like a sloppy fudge factor which is a poor attempt to explain the disparity between the rotation of galaxies under Newtonian Dynamics and their actual observed behavior. So imagine my delight when physicists from B.C.'s own University of Victoria claimed that the discrepancy can be resolved by substituting the Newtonian rules with General Relativity, thus eliminating the need for Dark Matter. Dark Matter still has a lot of support from traditional Astrophysicists, so naturally the paper is generating a lot of static in the physics community. Frankly, I hope this is the beginning of the end for Dark Matter. Anyone want to make me a t-shirt on this? "Dark Matter Sucks", or perhaps, "Dark Matter is Fudge"?

Nerdalicious...