Blog Heap of Links for the day 21 December 2008

The body of Wang Diange, from the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, was found in the wreckage of a house where he had been overseeing the wake of a previous family funeral, after mourners felt a loud explosion which took off half the roof. ... Inquiries revealed that the rainfall on the day of the original disaster was triggered by the local weather bureau, which had been firing shells into the atmosphere to break up hail in order to protect the local tobacco crop. Inside the shells were silver iodide, a chemical that helps to break up hail into rain. Their own investigators concluded that one shell must have failed to explode, hit the house, and lodged in Mr Wang's body. There it passed unnoticed because of his extensive injuries, according to local newspaper reports. [Courtesy of Chuck's News of the Weird Universe]

STRIPED rabbits, bright pink millipedes laced with cyanide and a spider bigger than a dinner plate are among a host of new species discovered in a remote wildlife hotspot. ... A huntsman spider, named Heteropoda maxima, measured 30cm across and was found in caves in Laos. It was described as the "most remarkable" of 88 new species of spider located in Laos, Thailand and the Yunnan province of China. ...

Majel Barrett final exit graphic

This concrete will work as a thermal mass to exchange the heat into the actual house portion of your dog's domicile/home.

In terms of heating a dog house, here are some suggestions arranged in order of increasing expense and complexity.

Basically a messy job of removing a type a paint. A methylene chloride chemical stripper works best.