Time-lapse of a baby playing on the living room floor, with the human interactions over the 4 hours removed, no babies hurt in the making, et cetera. Work-safe, too. Via Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish.

I liked this paragraph the best:

Another, though, seemed chagrined, after her boyfriend told her to “grow up” and stop “complaining about vacations and dinner” since he had to “fire 20 people by the end of the week.”

I noticed that when I highlighted that text on the NYT site, it gave me a link to clock on to search NYT.com for that text. That web page knew too much about what I was doing.

Somewhere along the way Dakota Fanning grew up.

That's why we have Elle Fanning.

Well, the good news is the big problem may go away, so I can spin it as what it is good news! Bad news is I wuz WRONG.

For anyone planning on traveling to the South Pole region of Titan, take note: Titan: A Rainy Season Ahead?

Rain seems to have been plentiful at Titan’s south pole. A new analysis of Cassini imagery compares the region in recent times with what it was about a year earlier, noting new features in areas many scientists believe to be lakes of liquid hydrocarbons. Adding to the conjecture is the fact that extensive cloud systems covered the region during this period, evidence for a large rainstorm amid changing seasons. All this comes from the almost global surface map Cassini’s Imaging Science Subsystem has been acquiring since April of 2004.

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The images on the left (unlabeled at top and labeled at bottom) were acquired July 3, 2004. Those on the right were taken June 6, 2005. In the 2005 images, new dark areas are visible and have been circled in the labeled version. The very bright features are clouds in the lower atmosphere (the troposphere). Titan’s clouds behave similarly to those on Earth, changing rapidly on timescales of hours and appearing in different places from day to day. During the year that elapsed between these two observations, clouds were frequently observed at Titan’s south pole by observers on Earth and by Cassini’s imaging science subsystem.

Occasionally, I am amazed that we now know stuff like this....

Other topic: this NYT article [link] is getting a lot of play on Jezebel and Gawker and stuff. But an NPR blogger wonders if it's fake? [link] I dunno, I feel like I;ve observed some girls when I worked at the Looniversity who were genuinely that shallow and crazy.

I think the blog is a PR ploy, but the group & the women are real. I see women like that here, too.

If it weren't noted that the baby video is time-lapse, I'd have assumed that the mat on the floor was the baby equivalent of the kitty crack pad.

Yeah, I think that blog is recently made up and those women are playing it up, but of course there are women like that -- that's why the ones playing get press, because it seems so likely. But the women who are actually consoling each other like that aren't reaching out to the NYTimes.

Wow, Dakota Fanning looks great.

Hee!

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It's also quite typical of the NYT to make a "movement" out of the behavior of a small number of extremely privileged people.

Awesome, Barb!

Go Buffy!