Blue M&Ms linked to reducing spine injury – CNN.com.
Apparently, the blue dye used in M&Ms and Gatorade can be used to reduce damage caused by spine injuries.
My take? Forget the medical benefits, I want this blue mouse!
(Blue mouse photo from CNN.com and University of Rochester Medical Center)

I took this shot from my front porch this afternoon. I was on my way out to do my grocery shopping when I saw that basically everyone in the neighborhood was out waiting for the President Elect.
Something tells me this will not be the last time we see the Presidential limousine in “real” DC, outside of the monuments and government offices. There is work to be done in the community and this seems to be right in the President Elect’s wheelhouse.
Here’s hoping, anyway.
Here are the rest of my Inauguration pictures, including the ones I got at the We Are One concert at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday
I mentioned in my resolutions post that I want to take pictures every day this year. I guess photography is my latest “thing”. I think my hobby is collecting hobbies.
Anyway, Mental Floss has a post about Jamie Livingston, a photographer, filmmaker and circus performer who took (or had taken) a polaroid every day from March 31, 1979 until the day he died on October 25, 1997. 18 years. I don’t even know if I’ll get through one year!
I’ll be posting my photos from 2009 in this flickr set.
Check out the huge aurora on Saturn.

Credit:NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Note the hexagonal feature in the atmosphere that Cassini found last year.