BBC has Haiti earthquake news. It sounds terrible. Like Haiti of all places needed this.

I'd say that if you're burning a candle that's still cold, less wax would melt.

Would it stay cold, you think, for an appreciable amount of time? Would the wax staying solid impede the progress of the wick burning in any negative way?

EXPERIMENT, damn you!

EXPERIMENT, damn you!

I need candles.

At least there's plenty of room in my freezer.

Perkins is The Devil.

Lena Headey
Claudia Black
Katee Sackhoff

Matthew Gray Gubler
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Neil Patrick Harris

Is that better?

Would it stay cold, you think, for an appreciable amount of time?

Dunno.

Would the wax staying solid impede the progress of the wick burning in any negative way?

Yes. It would burn slower. The wick serves to vaporize wax (it's the wax vapors that burn, not the molten wax). It would take more energy to melt the cold wax, so it would melt slower, thus exposing less of the wick, resulting in less molten wax being vaporized.

The outfit I wore today doesn't work. I really need a slip if I'm going to wear these tights with this dress. But this dress might be a little close for a slip. Shame. It's never going to be warm enough here to go tightsless.

C Katee (one note), F Lena Headey (what a beauty), M Claudia (who rocks).

The men are harder. I'd C NPH because he beat John Barrowman in the afterelton poll only, F JGL, M MGG because he's a fascinating bundle of weird.

I need candles.

Hey, -t, can you send tommy some candles? They should be your husband's candles for accuracy.

Malt-o-meal

It would take more energy to melt the cold wax, so it would melt slower, thus exposing less of the wick

By negative I meant perhaps mucking up the candle entirely--if the wax melts too slowly the wick can't burn and the candle goes out. But the candle might warm up before that's a factor.

I feel like we did the candle burning experiment with inconclusive results, but it was a while ago. I can tell you that there is significant drippage on the ol' menorah even when all the candles have been in the freezer.

Tell you what, I will stick a Shabbos candle in the freezer right now, and light along side a non-frozen candle from the same box this Friday, see if there's any difference.

Weird Military Innovations: 10 Crazy Weapons of War

I knew about the bats, but not the dogs.

The brutality of war can be reflected by the means with which it’s fought. Anti tank dogs were a soviet creation, and said to have taken down over 300 German tanks during World War II. Dogs were taught to find food under tanks, and then starved before a battle. They would have bombs strapped to their backs, with levers that would trigger as soon as it hit the underside of a tank. When the lever snapped back, the dogs would explode, destroying the tank. The Germans eventually fought this tactic with flamethrowers, and a couple cases of dogs running amok away from battlefields was enough to cut back the program.

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It’s surprising a prototype of a bat bomb was ever even made, but it was. The idea was simple: place incendiary explosive devices on Mexican Free-Tailed Bats, lower their temperature inside a bomb so they hibernate in transit, and then release them over an enemy city to roost in the infrastructure below. At a specific time, all the bats would explode in a thousand fiery blazes, igniting fires across the city.

I don't think the bat bombs were ever deployed.

Hey, -t, can you send tommy some candles? They should be your husband's candles for accuracy.

I've just got the one left in the freezer, is the problem with that.