Free Road Trip On Neil Gaiman's American Highway

I heard from Big Dumb Object, a Science Fiction Blog, that he heard from Neil Gaiman’s website that Neil Gaiman’s book American Gods will be available as a free PDF download for about a month or so.

If you’ve wanted to read this book but the $6.99 cover price for the soft cover version is just too big of an obstacle, get it for free.

I started the book (bought it, own it) and the first chapter is gripping. Gripping, I tell you. It shows much promise in the way of entertainment. Problem was that I got sidetracked by some reading that I had to do for pay, so that takes precedence.

Sorry Neil. I'll get back to you.

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10,000 BC? I Can Wait.

After seeing the preview for this movie before the very uneven, I Am Legend, I was less than impressed. Now after seeing the previews ad nausea since, I am even less so—especially after a ridiculous preview I caught on The N channel while watching Degrassi with my son. First the preview on The N included some silly teenybopper voice over by the female character talking about her boyfriend, played by Steven Strait and how her parents hate him because he does graffiti, which she then reveals is Cave Art and his hair is so perfect and stuff. Even my 14-year-old son asked if that was going to be in the movie (the voice over). I told him that, no it was only for the commercial. Then he said that was good because he wanted to see the movie before he saw that preview.

For kicks I compared 10,000 BC to The Clan of the Cave Bear on IMDB:


The Clan of the Cave Bear Plot Outline: A young Cro-Magnons woman is raised by Neanderthals.

10,000 BC Plot Outline: A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.


The Clan of the Cave Bear Release Date: 17 January 1986

10,000 BC Release Date: 7 March 2008


The Clan of the Cave Bear User Comments: Very entertaining.

10,000 BC User Comments: Waste of time.


The Clan of the Cave Bear Awards: Nominated for Oscar.

10,000 BC Awards: Don’t hold your breath.


Now that’s just cruel.

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The Scale of The Universe Application

Nikon has this cool Flash application on their site called Universcale. What it does is take you through the relative size of the universe from the scale of the current limit (about 13 Billion Light Years) to the tiniest measurement that has not even yet been meaured (Fentometer or a Quadrillionth of a Meter.) The coolest thing is to start on the right side with the light year and then punch down to the left at the scale zooms through all the size ranges. It's a penalty killer I'll tell you that.

What's also cool is the narrative text that will make you feel like walking out of work and to go sit on a high mountain to contemplate the implications. Ex. At the Fentometer, the site says that in this realm the concept of size as we understand it may not even exist. WHOAH! This is the size of quarks and ultimately strings (from string theory.) Not the other kind of string.

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Web App: Periodic Table

This is cool. I found it on the Webware.com website. They review Web 2.0 applications. This Flash version of the Periodic Table of Elements on Ptable.com has a ton of options and is linked up to Wikipedia so when you click on an element you get a pop up of the elements Wiki entry.

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Star Trek The Original Series Episodes on CBS

Why am I only hearing about this now? When I've been surfing the web looking for something to do besides work, I could have been watching old Star Trek episodes this whole time!


Go over to the original Star Trek series on cbs.com.

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