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Pharyngula gives us the mimic octopus. Complete with video.
The fourth and fifth graders from the John Horgan School (Cranston) visited Biomes today.
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)
Computer geek Beatle’s lyrics.
Dept. of Educashun: Everything you could ever want to know about John Wilkes Booth.
Check out The Museum of the Middle Class.
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.
Happy Birthday Matthew (6).
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.
Mark's Thanksgiving Day Chinese Dumplings
Ingredients:
1 package of wonton skins
3 cups chicken broth
1 tbl flour
4 tsp peanut oil
Plus, mix all of the following well in a bowl:
1 lb ground pork
3 small shrimp, chopped fine (optional)
2 tbl soy sauce
1 tbl dry sherry
1/2 tsp sugar
3 green onions, chopped fine
2 cloves garlic, grated
6 whole water chestnuts, chopped fine
1 tsp sesame oil
few drops chinese hot oil
1 tbl cornstarch
1 egg
In a small cup mix the flour with a bit of water to make a thin paste.
Place a wonton wrapper on a cheap dumpling press. Brush edges lightly with water/flour paste. Place one tsp of filling onto the center and fold dumpling press. Put dumpling aside on wax paper and continue filling the rest of the wrappers.
Heat a silverstone pan on medium and add 1 tsp peanut oil. Place a dozen dumplings in the pan and lightly brown on one side only. Add 3/4 cup chicken broth, turn heat up to medium-high and cover. Remove dumplings when all the broth is absorbed. Wipe pan and repeat one dozen at a time.
To reheat before serving use a bamboo steamer and steam for just a minute or two. Do not reheat in a microwave or oven or you will ruin Thanksgiving for everyone.
Dipping Sauce. Mix the following:
1/4 cup soy sauce diluted with 1/4 cup water
green onion, chopped fine
ginger root, sliced into thin strips.
hot oil to taste
Photo by staff member Jean.
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:
Bandwidth issue solved. Yay.
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.
If you came here searching for the penguin gif, I had to take it down. The photo albums as well. With record hits this month I'm nearly out of bandwidth (and if I goes dark, you'll knows why).
Anyone who knows more about Typepad than me, if you can give me some hints I'd appreciate it.
Stuff You Should Know: US Presidents: Lists and Records.
Happy Birthday Dylan (5) and Isabel (5).
Cool Site of the Week: Cosmic Evolution.
This site is amazing. Take a week or so off and just read.
Dept. of Educashun: Know your beef cuts.
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 anyway?
Here are 20 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.
The Fiske School's second graders (Wellesley, MA) visited the center today and the Warwick schools began their first two of 26 One Month Aquarium programs.
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.)
