Precocious Panda Indeed!

So, I'm at the doctors office looking at random magazines when my eye falls on the June 2006 issue of "The Smithsonian" magazine:

Please note the highlighted headlines...

I immediately started wondering about why a panda would care about Mary Magdalene and what the heck Wyeth was doing in Berlin (and wasn't the wall long gone anyway?)

World's Largest Ball of Paint

No, not a ball of wax... a ball of paint. Lots and lots of it. Neat in a "Get A Life" kind of way.

In unrelated news, here is a very neat comic strip about the sport of paint ball. Funny even for the non-paintball enthusiasts amongst us. I hadn't realized that the hacker ethics was a s firmly established in the sport of paintball, but apparently it is.