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Pharyngula gives us the mimic octopus. Complete with video.
Search Results: Someone image googled the term “money laundering”, which brought them here.
Speaking of money laundering, click here to pretend you’re Tom Delay.
Check out Dave's Lie of the Day.
Roger Ebert reviews Dr. Strangelove.
You can buy the new special edition DVD at Amazon.
Bonus Comic: (click it)
Dept. of Educashun: Everything you could ever want to know about John Wilkes Booth.
Words like floccipaucinihilipilification are fun to say.
A little piece of Dylan: One Too Many Mornings (1964).
I wouldn’t be caught dead doing Karaoke. This, on the other hand, is something I could really get into. “You talkin’ to me?”
Albino Monday: Tiger.
Happy Birthday Haydn (9).
Cool Site of the Week: Cool bug trivia.
Dogs and cats living together. It’ll be anarchy.
If you have two grand to throw away, you can always buy a bronze bust of flightsuit boy.
It only took 130 years to put this fire out.
If you read your horoscope and actually take it seriously, then Wanga dolls are for you.
Check out the “Choose the Blue” shopping guide.
The Hands Up Project: People helping wild hermit crabs. You gotta love stuff like this.
Timewaster of the Week: Stealth boats.
Now we’re cookin’/Pet Corner combo: Miniature cows. It takes two of them to make one of these.
The British recognized animal war heroes this week. Cool stuff, thanks to Maru.
Would you like to use a computer but are highly allergic to plastics? Hey, no problem.
2004 Election cartograms.
Play! Help the monkey across the pool. Or something.
Animal of the Week: Northern Seahorse. I've been working on these pages day and night all week so I'll use them as Wednesday's featured animal here for a while. More links in the "Learn It All" sections. Most of my time is spent floundering around since I'm a bit lost without the boy here during the week to show me how to use the computer. (This is what I hear on the weekend: "Dad, I've told you fifteen times, you have to flatten the image layers before you can turn it into a JPEG" and "I've never used Adobe Go Live. You have for 4 years. Why do I still have to show you how it works. Sheesh".) Ha, ha. Kids.
Turkey jigsaw puzzle.
Now we're cookin': I posted this link in the comment section of Daily Kos last night. Here’s a recipe for a whole stuffed camel. Note: You will need a 110 gallon pot.
Stuff You Should Know: What to do if a volcano erupts. Best advice from the site is “move away from the volcano, not towards it”.
Now, off to make my yearly Thanksgiving Day batch of 120 Chinese dumplings for tomorrow's traditional holiday meal. (Nobody asks "Is Mark coming to Thanksgiving?". It's always "Are the dumplings coming to Thanksgiving?") Recipe next entry. People have killed for these things. Honest.
Fun Fact: This was the first ever internet banner ad.
25% of Americans believe the sun revolves around the earth. I’m starting to think about joining a smarter species. Like maybe antelope or something.
Pet Corner: How to walk your mouse on your cat on your dog.
Changes in Return of the Jedi.
Rolling Stone Magazine names Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” the number one song of all time. Number two was "Satisfaction" by.....The Rolling Stones. There's a pattern here, I just can't put my finger on it.
Search Results: Someone found the Biomes Blog by googling “biomes of London”. It brought them here.
Bonus Comic:
Spent 14 hours straight today putting together five pages like this. Only 147 more animals to go!
Search Results: Someone found the Biomes Blog by googling “Hitchicker’s (sic) guide movie”. It brought them here.
A little piece of Dylan: Visions of Johanna (1966).
PNAC. Feel safer yet?
I haven’t the slightest clue what this web site is all about, but it is a very cool design.
Albino Monday: Chimpanzee.
Timewaster of the Week: You are in a forest
Airport security is getting a bit lax.
Stuff You Should Know: How to throw playing cards.
Etiquette lesson: After you. No, no after you.
The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them. --Michael Moore.
So, there’s this program that will rewrite your website emphasizing the most common words by making them big. Less common words are small.
Here’s an example.
Stuff You Should Know: Newfoundland slang.
Welcome to Newfoundland.
Play! PoPoint.
I went to a fancy french restaurant called "Deja Vu." The headwaiter said, "Don't I know you?" -- Steven Wright
Back in Entry #229 I put up John Cleese’s teaser for his upcoming website. Here’s his new site.
Pet Corner: Kitty beds.
Ugly toes contest.
Stuff You Should Know: Which side of the road countries drive on, and why.
What americans will be saying for the next four years.
Yet still, here are ten reasons not to move to Canada.
At the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan broke out his electric guitar in public for the first time ever. The crowd, who came to see their folk hero, was not amused. He didn’t return to the festival until 36 years later (in a wig and fake beard for some reason). Here’s an audio clip of that '65 show.
Now we’re cookin': I love eggs.
So, what ever happened to Bob Eubanks.
Here are twenty words that should exist. My car windows, by the way, are covered with pupkus stains.Play! Beat the Keeper. (thanks Graham).
Glow in the dark transgenic deer. Why not just remake the biosphere to our liking?
Search Results: Someone found the Biomes Blog by googling “68 mustang can be spotted around venus”. It brought them here for some reason.
Movie Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Finally got around to seeing this. They used a few gags a few too many times, but otherwise recommended. 4.0 out of 5 starfish.
Stuff You Should Know: How snakes swallow their prey. Our boa, Reggie, ate a record 26 frozen mice in September.
So, the emails keep pouring in. “Biomes Blog, when will you give us a gallery of kidney stone photographs?” Ok, ok. Here it is.
Bonus Comic: (Click it.)
