Approaching Singularity

Ack, the World Wide Web is taking several of my separate hobbies and combining them.  I crochet.  I play uke.  I watch some anime and I know some filmmakers.  But I have never intended to do anything remotely like this.  Has the zeitgeist somehow plugged into my brain?  Will I feel compelled to learn this song?  Is my consciousness already part of the looming and unbearably cute singularity that will eat the universe!?  And why should I suffer alone when I can post this link to all of you? 

Who Put the (Sun) Dogs Out?

To make up for that last video, here's a video taken at Thursday's launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory.  According to SpaceWeather.com:

"Sundogs are formed by plate-shaped ice crystals floating in cirrus clouds. 'When SDO's Atlas V rocket penetrated the cirrus, shock waves went rippling through the cloud and destroyed the alignment of the crystals,' says atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. 'This extinguished the sundog.'"  To the cheers and delight of observers who can be heard in the background.