Random Thoughts

A UFO (unidentified falling object) lit up the skies over Western Washington this morning at about 2:30. The news stations are searching for good images of the mysterious object, which was described differently depending on where the viewers were. KOMO News has a good image of a surveillance camera which shows that the object made the skies quite bright when it burned up. It was most likely a meteor, news reports keep quoting the Naval Observatory, which thinks it was a bolide. The Seattle Times has some reader reactions. I think it woke me up, also, but I definitely didn't see it. I just assumed another truck had gone by. Awake observers note that it got so bright it made the full moon vanish.

Update: A nice round-up of on-line reaction to the "Washington Flash" can be found at The Irish Trojan's Blog. Thank you Technorati.

I (and probably half the rest of the comic book fans on the net) got a press release from ICAA announcing a giveaway contest of copies of Mortal Coils.

The ten finalists for Comic Book Idol 2 are up and listed.

Another excellent 404 error. This one is via Garrett Fitzgerald.

Say you want to read the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. And say you realize that there are 1565 pages, and that's an awful lot to tackle. But you know that Da Vinci generally completed a single idea or concept per page. What do you do? You set up a feed so you can read the whole thing one page per day. If you have an RSS reader, you can follow along. If you don't, the whole thing is nicely formatted for folks to read.

A nasty computer virus is pretending to be a Harry Potter game or video, fooling people into opening it. Remember, don't open it if you didn't know it was coming.