very interesting

(to be pronounced veeery en-tear-est-ink)

Today, at two minutes and three seconds after 1 o'clock the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

I might be a little off on this one, but one projection of energy demands said that we will need to add 1000 square miles of solar panels a year until 2050 in order to accomodate all the energy that will be needed then. Know what this is roughly equal to? The areas of the roofs of the all of the houses that will need to be built.

And finally, did you know that the birth rate is, roughly, inversely proportional to the level of education of the woman? And that 2.1 births per female is the maximum sustainable birth rate?

some little factoids for hump day...