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Entry #991

What is global warming?  From Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth" website.

  A gallery of sloths.

Search Results: Someone found the Biomes Blog by yahooing “eaten by a crocodile”.  It brought them here.

Let Webmath help you count your coins.

AAA’s fuel cost calculator.  Check this out. Driving my Prius, a trip from my house to Disney World would cost me only $71. Sweet.

Stuff You Should Know: Forty things you didn't know about Superman.

Flat Daddy. This is not an Onion piece.

One of my few personal heroes, Kurt Vonnegut, makes a splash in this Rolling Stone article.

"I'm talking about us killing the planet as a life-support system with gasoline. What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world. We've become far too dependent on hydrocarbons, and it's going to suddenly dry up. You talk about the gluttonous Roaring Twenties. That was nothing. We're crazy, going crazy, about petroleum. It's a drug like crack cocaine. Of course, the lunatic fringe of Christianity is welcoming the end of the world as the rapture. So I'm Jeremiah. It's going to have to stop. I'm sorry."

Entry #990

I would have thought it would be bigger news that a large meteor hit a remote section of Norway with the power of the Hiroshima bomb a while back.

Stuff You Should Know: How to extend the life of your car.

Here’s a little dictionary of George Orwell’s Newspeak terms.

Beliefwatch polls people on who is going to hell. The correct answer is the same number of folks headed for Shangri-La.

The complete Bushisms, with videos.  Watch the monkey try to speak.

Entry #989

That’s a gimme. Next hole!

Blogging cats daily at Daily Cat Blogging.

Dept. of Educashun: The Zimmermann Telegram.

  Doggles for your dog and hats for your cat.

August's eyesore of the month.

The problem isn’t Bush; he’s just a neocon pawn and a world class idiot. The problem is conservatism itself, as laid out quite nicely here.

Search Results: Someone found the Biomes Blog by yahooing “pigtatoo”.  It brought them here.

Entry #988

Howard Dean on CNN, making sense.

An example of Boolian Logic:

Fred owes Grace $200
Fred pays back money to Grace on time.
Fred is not a Cat...
Therefore cats are NEVER to be trusted with short-term loans.

Win William Shatner’s voice on your answering machine (does anyone actually have an answering machine anymore?)

Shayera got yesterday's trivia right. The award pictured goes to the filmmaker who wins the Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.  Michael Moore has one.

I’m driving down a side street yesterday and there’s a squirrel on the shoulder up ahead acting a bit strange.  I slow down and it turns out he was nudging another squirrel that looked like it had just been hit.  The downed animal’s tail was still quivering.  The non-downed squirrel was nudging it and, I kid you not, actually trying to lift the other’s head with its paws.  It’s gonna be a few days before I get that image out of my brain.

Get your bio-engineered Genpets here.

Albino Monday: Gorilla.

Entry #987

This week's water tower is found in Crisfield, MD.

Fake flies painted on the inside of urinals turn out to be effective at keeping public rest rooms clean.

  Infrequently asked questions, from the Economist.  New questions every day and everyday I get only about half of these right.

Timewaster of the Week: Screen savers to make you dizzy.  Keep hitting “next”.

“I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel I owe anybody an explanation.” --Dubya (R-Fascist)

Trivia (10 Biomes points): Who gets this award?

Entry #986

Tornado photos.

Deathstyles of the Rich and Famous.

Warren Buffet, a force for good (via reader Patty).

The top documentary films.

This week's DailyKos Marine Life Series is up.  Read it below or go here to take the poll to vote on next week's topic.

Entry #985

Is Bush a clear and present danger?

Timewaster of the Week: Purple.com. Here’s their FAQ.

Pet Corner: The H5N1 bird flu chicken protector.

Confuse and annoy your customers and co-workers with the “Will Return” clock.  Great for business.

Dept. of Educashun: How dolphins swim so damn fast.

iPod Shuffle:

1. Amateur (Aimee Mann)
2. All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down (The Mavericks)
3. A Keeper For Every Flame (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
4. Ignoreland (R.E.M.)
5. Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight (Bob Seger)
6. Supper Time (Johnny Cash)
7. If You See Her, Say Hello (Bob Dylan)
8. Tough Mama (Bob Dylan)
9. Whiskey Rock-A Roller (Lynyrd Skynyrd, live)
10. Shake 'Em Down (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes)

Entry #984

Animal of the Week: Flying Fox. Learn about them here and here. They were about the only good things about the second Indiana Jones movie.

Our very own D. Sidhe gets a major post on Tbogg.  I have to ask, why don’t you have a blog, D?

Howard Dean is sharp as a whip.

Since high school I’ve always loved Springsteen’s music.  Today he’s one more voice speaking out.

Understanding the Taiwan Mess.  This very informative article gives you more than you’d ever want to know about politics in Taiwan, a part of the world I know way too little about.

Hopefully I'll have a picture for Monday's albino, but I caught a normal looking green crab that has albino claws.  Wait till you see it, I've never seen anything like this.

Entry #983

The guy who took this famous photo of the marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima died recently.  He was 94.  He also shares a first and last name with my son's great-grandfather on his mother's side.

Here are the top 100 websites on the entire internets. DailyKos is number 58.

Play! Blast Billiards (just click on “guest”).

Jon Stewart’s first day back after 9/11.

Watch the trailer for the upcoming movie “Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers”.  As an aside, after watching this I decided to go back on my diet and exercise plan.

Entry #982

"There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall." --Rep. Henry Hyde (R-sexist)

Ngazi had a really rough day yesterday with her seizures, keeping me from going to work.  The amount of drugs I had to pump into her to get them to finally stop would have killed a horse.  I’ve posted this before, but here’s a movie The Boy made of her when she’s actually lucid.  The old film look is intentional.

I’ve never heard of Troy Lee Gentry before, but I think his punishment should be to star in an Aleutians Island reality series.  Let’s call it “Grizzly Man II”.

The Museum of Bad Art.

You just have to watch these moon-walking jungle birds.

Another reason why flightsuit boy was placed in power.  UnAmerican scum.  It’s all about the money, isn’t it?

Listen to some of DJ Bob Dylan’s “Theme Time Radio Hour” (as heard on XM satellite radio).

Entry #981

Eyeball, and other visual puns.

Bookmark worthy: Defenders of Wildlife.

Buy your giant hairbrush here.

Glacial retreat photos.

In 1937 a group of American volunteers helped China improve their air force in defense against the Japanese.  Learn about the Flying Tigers.  I found this fascinating.

Snakes on a Plane review by Scott Weinberg.

Snakes on a Plane review by Filmthreat.

Snakes on a Plane review by Dana Stevens.

Snakes on a Plane review by James Sanford.

Snakes on a Plane review by Claudia Puig.   

Snakes on a Plane review by Mark Rahner.

Snakes on a Plane review by The Movie Boy.

Snakes on a Plane review by Cindy White.

Snakes on a Plane review by Joshua Taylor.

I should add that they could have made better use of the Spitting Cobra, which unfairly gets very little screentime.

Albino Monday: Catfish.

Entry #980

This week's water towers are found in Eveleth, MN.

I’ve always liked Kris Kristofferson and now I have another reason to like him even more.

Prevent “plumber butt” with the longtail teeshirt.

Stuff You Should Know: How to build an igloo.  I’ve always wondered how they made those things.

Biomes sloganizer. Hit refresh a couple of times.

Carl Zimmer updates us on Homo floresiensis, the Hobbits found in Indonesia, with the post called “Small Girls with Sharp Rocks”.

iPod Shuffle (two days late.  You're supposed to remind me when I screw up, people. You aren't doing your jobs):

1. Till It Shines (Bob Seger)
2. Frozen Man (James Taylor)
3. There She Goes (Chris Isaak)
4. I Like It (Dixie Chicks)
5. Precious Angel (Bob Dylan)
6. It Ain't Over Yet (Allman Brothers Band)
7. Even The Losers (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
8. Belle Isle (Bob Dylan)
9. If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out (Cat Stevens)
10. Zombie (The Cranberries)

Entry #979

Create your own cigarette packet.

Dept. of Educashun: A history of whaling, with a glossary.

“Endeavor to Persevere” is one of my favorite movie monologues. It’s by Lone Waite from “The Outlaw Josey Wales”.

I think I linked to the blog “Tricks of the Trade” way, way back when.  Here’s another look.

Movie Rating: "Snakes On A Plane". Best summer schlock movie ever!  I could identify at least a half dozen of the species and it looked like the filmakers took some time to get the science right (provided you suspend belief for the aggressiveness and some of the more absurd cgi movements).  Good audience participation as well, if you like that sort of thing.  4.7 starfish out of 5.

My weekly Marine Life Series is up at DailyKos.  Read it below or go here to take the poll to vote on next week's topic.

Entry #978

I had my first real experience with sushi last night.  Fortunately we were with friends who were very familiar with the terms, otherwise this glossary would have come in handy.  It was, umm... interesting.  Some of it, like the cooked eel (Unagi) was surprisingly good but things like the spider crab roll (I could taste the crab's exoskeleton) was very unsettling.

More from NASA on the Lebanese oil spill that now covers nearly half its shoreline. 

I think I'll go see Snakes on a Plane tonight.  Hopefully there’ll be some ophidiophobes in the audience to goof on.  Nobody wants to go with me so I'll be the lonely guy on the right side (cinema it's playing at faces south. Don't ask.) rooting for the snakes.

This is a must read article written by Ted Kennedy.

"The November election will teach Dick Cheney and others of his ilk that they cannot use fear to cling to power. As Will Rogers said, "It's no disgrace not to be able to run a country nowadays, but it is a disgrace to keep on trying when you know you can't."

Welcome to the Rightwingoverse.

FUH2 is a site devoted to giving the finger to hummers.

Entry #977

Well, this wasn’t much of a surprise:

You are Spock

You are skilled in knowledge and logic.
You believe that the needs of the many
outweigh the needs of the few.
Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Test

Bringing back mammoths. How cool would this be?

  How to escape from a car hanging over the edge of a cliff.

My pin in the map. Actually I placed it a little too far west.

Barack Obama, another speech, this one going back to the 2004 dem convention.

Trivia answer from yesterday: Lego makes 311 million tires per year.