Saturday, July 24, 2010

Exclusive! Journalist Finds Report From 2007!

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AP Exclusive: Turkey ill-prepared for earthquake So, um, yeah, if you know anything about seismic hazards, you know Turkey is a danger zone,...
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Saturd80's

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Via Mock, Paper, Scissors , from a brilliant Flashback Friday , "dedicated to President CareBear." Missing Persons, Words: Psyched...

And You Thought The Pelicans Were Horrifying

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The Big Picture had a couple of great photo essays this week, though in both some of the pictures made my stomach jumpy. " Oil Spill i...

The Palinator Is Getting Some Mighty Strange Coverage in Taiwan

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It doesn't say "Paid for by SarahPac," and it doesn't end with "My name is Sarah Palin and I approve this message,...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Hah-Ha-Ha... Wha?

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A robot learning to flip pancakes from Sylvain Calinon on Vimeo . Short order cooks across the nation laugh, pause, and consider new lines...

Waitsing For The Weekend

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Darius Whiteplume posted the following picture on his Tumblr a few days ago, and I've had it set aside trying to decide what to do with...

Hyperbole and a Half

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I first read Hyperbole and a Half a couple of weeks ago when the post Dog ("A lingering fear of mine was confirmed last night: My do...

Dog Hates Dyslexics

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So Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist clan announced they were going to protest Comic Con. Clue 1: Don't announce ahead of time who, w...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish

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From The NYT Economic Scene : According to NASA , 2010 is on course to be the planet’s hottest year since records started in 1880. The cu...
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Run Away!

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Big gnashy teeth! I have never worried about bitey fishies when swimming in streams here in Oregon, but that might not have been the case a ...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Too Soon?

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The Gulf Spill Cocktail. From Deep Sea News , and be sure to read comment #1 for an idea on how to make it even more life-like.

Jesus Walking on The Water

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Above, from a wonderful gallery at the Guardian of high-speed flash photographs of wildlife struttin' their stuff, and below, from The ...

Portents of The Apocalypse

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Climate change creating 'super marmots' that are bigger and more abundant I, for one, welcome our new alpine rodent overlords . Got...

Wednesday Wednesday

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From Mystique's photobucket .
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Astronomers Dig Them Some Geology Too

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Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog has a great piece on the volcanism of Io, Jupiter's innermost large moon, and the most v...

Woodhenge

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One of the tracks on Laurie Anderson's magnum opus, United States Live Parts I-IV , is called "A Curious Phenomenon." Recently...
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Tuesday Tits

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Crested tit, Lophophanes cristatus, from Garden Safari .

Another Avatar Parallel

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Back in January, I posted a couple of funny items noting the uncanny parallels between Avatar and Pocahontas . Now, The Oatmeal has found a...

Watch The Moon Landing, Live!

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Well, plus 41 years... from Kottke : Just leave this page open in your browser and at the appointed times (schedule is below), the broadc...
Monday, July 19, 2010

What Do You Do in Your Spare Time?

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I spend a lot more time reading Wikipedia than I do watching television, but I've never registered, and thus never edited or contributed...