Something to busy yourself with

Here’s something to busy yourself with when you’re thinking of ways to get out of writing your Nanowrimo novel:

From Boing Boing, How to view the transit of Mercury on November 8:
Mark Frauenfelder:

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The Exploratorium has instructions for building a projector to view the transit of Mercury across the Sun, an event the occurs only 12 times a century. Link