blanketfort

[science] - fire and ice.
Firefighter protection cloth. and testing video! (mov)

Dance Dance Immolation, though as Chris says, "Edgy, no doubt, but I�m personally holding out for Dance Dance Defenestration."

old link: Homegrown PVC flamethrower. dangerous and fun! darwin awaits. more pics. see also Flamethrower - Wikipedia

Flickr: fire and flame

Ice lake found on the Red Planet - large photos here.

upcoming Antarctic Base Station for the British Antarctic Survey.
and a variety of great antarctic blogs/zines (many discontinued, but fun archives):
75 Degrees South
Big Dead Place
felixsalmon - Rhian
slush.
Phil: Archives
Polarcafe
sandwichgirl

[stuff] - Cold Sugar Cloud Lost in Space

[bugs] - Sandia MEMS: Image Gallery, and movies too. (all today's are via the ever excellent dublog)

[education] - The Particle Adventure (via /.)

[allergies? pah! bring on the] - smart dust

[skyence] - Fractals Add New Dimension To Study Of Tiny Electronics. Poker chips doused in chicken fat that seem to exist in 1.6 dimensions. Does Homer know about this?

Portrait of an Atom

[science] - consequential

[skience] - Bending Spacetime in the Basement
"The time has come," the Hacker said,
  "To talk of many things:
Of plastic foam--and tuna cans--
  Of chunks of lead--and string--
And how the force of gravity--
  Will make the balance swing."

[huge. toy. science. !] - Micro shells. for example

Astronomers Celebrate Reliable Measure... "Only now do the two different measures ... agree. Now, 90 percent of everything is known to be virtually nothing."

uhoh. Liquid Nitrogen Demos .

Destination Mir

New Scientist: Looking glass worlds : "Some physicists say we are surrounded by a universe of mirror matter, with mirror beings living on mirror planets that orbit the stars."

Elementary, my dear Watson.