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Let Oprah help calculate what your real age is. My plan is to make it to 2050. I’ll update this on Entry # 16,330 and let you know how I do.
The Onion says the patriots season was perfect for the rest of the nation.
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in Namibia that is being devoured by sand.
Esquire says that this is the worst building in the history of mankind.
The great pizza orientation test. I’ve never ordered from Dominos, but this is actually pretty cool.
I promise no more Dylan video marathon posts for at least a year.
Reader Tony sent me an email of the frog picture from the other day, and by just rotating it 90 degrees the horse becomes crystal clear.
What’s in a name?, by Juan Cole.
Queen Elizabeth is sorry for swan bite.
Taxi to the Dark Side, which focuses on the Bush misadministration’s illegal use of torture in its war on terra, won this year’s best documentary oscar. A complete list of Oscar winners can be found here.
Roger Ebert's review of Taxi is here.
Bill Kristol is an absolutely despicable human being.
Frank Rich: The Audacity of Hopelessness.
Now we’re cookin’: I can has cheezeburger inna kan?
Seventy free applications you should own.
Supposedly this image either shows a frog or the top of a horse’s head emerging from the water. I briefly saw the horse, but can’t seem to get it back.
Photos from a book on painted cats that’s been making the rounds is a hoax.
Stuff You Should Know: Google has this many employees.
Check out the artwork of Vladimir Kush.
Cool Site of the Week: Strictly No Photography is a website that invites people to submit photographs taken where photography is forbidden.
Geeks will love the R2D2 translator.
Now we’re cookin’: Using McDonald’s as pizza toppings. Gross.
Meet the goliath tigerfish.
This week's Big Thing is a silver fox. I found this wiki entry called Tame Silver Fox, which is a domesticated variation of the Red Fox, the result of a fifty year experiment by Russian scientists.
Will somebody please make Ralph go away.
Puppy vs Robot: An epic battle for territorial domination!
Lolsaur. omg rawr!!
You can watch the entire NOVA documentary, Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial online.
This week's Marine Life Series was about the sea urchin's Aristotle's lantern.
Flightsuit boy scores lowest approval rating of any president in history.
The Mystery of the Rosetan People is a fascinating look at the effects of Americanization on a once-inexplicably healthy community in Pennsylvania.
Here’s a map of what the earth would look like if the oceans and continents were reversed.
Buy your license plate map here.
Now that it’s pretty clear Obama will be our nominee, and let’s face it, Hillary is done, Glenn Greenwald has some insight into what we can now expect from the wingnut smear machine. Since Nixon, Reagan, Bush the Smarter and Idiot Bush have proven over and over again that conservativism is an utterly failed ideology, all Republicans have left is smears and lies. If the Democrats can learn to neutralize those we have a permanent progressive majority in government and America will be a better place.
Twenty good books that were turned into twenty not so good movies.
Via Fanatic Cook, we can now use Earth911 to find out where to dispose of those hard to get rid of things like computers and other electronics.
Meet Beelzebufo, the frog from hell.
Space experts are saying that, like everything else coming out of the Bush misadministration, the reason they are giving for shooting down that spy satellite is a lie.
I don’t think I want to be flying with the pilots of AirChina 981.
I got 18 out of 25 answers correct on this New Yorker 2008 campaign quiz. 1 Biomes point for each person who beats that score.
How evil are you?
Animal of the Week: It’s a reptilian push-me-pull-you.
Here’s the winner of the World’s Saddest Cubicle competition.
Obama on the rise, a graph based on polls as of 2/14/08.
This is really funny. Ricky Gervais, of the BBC “The Office”, has some fun with creationism.
Here’s a comprehensive list of all 4200 names for pet bunnies. Some people have way too much free time.
Snuggly the Security Bear explains FISA.
Play! The Audubon Society’s “Eagle Eyes”. Spot the differences in each pair of bird photos.
Somehow this kangaroo survived a run down the track during a car race.
Why dogs bite people:
Here’s another niche blog, this one all about lighthouses in New England.
Stuff You Should Know: All about caffeine.
Can you tell the difference between a mailbox and cheese? Take the quiz.
So this guy in Thailand robs a bank wearing a motorcycle helmet. Police sketch artists question eyewitnesses and then come up with this wanted poster.
Funny. John Mellencamp has asked John McCain to stop using his song at Republican rallies. Ha, so has Tom Petty. (Credit goes to Scout Finch.)
"McCain had been using Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down during his rallies, until he was asked to stop using it by the artist. Petty had previously threatened to sue George W. Bush from using the same song during the 2000 election."
May 22nd can’t come soon enough. Go here to view the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Today’s slideshow is of the winners of the 1983 “small world” microphotography contest (click on “slideshow” to view).
Albino Monday: Baby dolphin.
This week's Big Thing is a giant violin.
I have no sympathy for losers like Todd Kelley, who had a great gig as a radio disk jockey and is now going to jail for pretending to have Lou Gehrig’s disease and spending all of the contributions he solicited on himself.
Check out this alarm clock. It’s hooked into your bank account and you choose a charity or organization that you would never donate to. For example, if you are a Democrat you can set it to fund the GOP. For every minute you oversleep the clock starts withdrawing funds and sending them to the Republicans. If that doesn’t get your butt out of bed nothing will.
Morford: Twenty-nine things to be happy about.
Nine creative staircases.
This is my new albino rock crab, which was donated by a fisherman on Friday. The odds of this crab existing is roughly 1 in 100 million. I made this the subject of this week's Marine Life Series over on Daily Kos.
A woman is not allowed to referee a high school basketball game in Kansas. Maybe if she wore a burka it would be ok with the right wing?
Joel Stein thinks Obamaphilia has gotten creepy.
This is awesome. A rabbit being hunted by a snake turns the tables.
