Odds and Ends: Astronomy, I Can See!! and Snow White's Apple

+ Did you that this is the International Year of Astronomy? I didn't. You would have thought there would have been some sort of missive -- a note tied to an asteroid tossed into the front yard, for example? Oh well, we still have nine months left to celebrate...

+ Can video games improve your eyesight? Apparently so, if you suffer from difficulties with contrast sensitivity. Which is a great excuse to use the next time you want to shoot zombies while your spouse wants to watch some sort of game with tall men shoving some sort of spherical object into a net. Thanks, Science!

+ Really not much to say about this except COOL! It's a Snow White MacBook Cover: