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This week’s Big Thing includes a series of oversized kitchen implements.
Buy your ToDo Tattoo Kit here.
Leadbelly was a black folk and blues musician from the early thirties and forties. This is the only known video of the man.
Monty Python’s Upper Class Twit of the Year.
Yeah, I’d say that’s a big hand. Ugh.
Prison is too good for these White House bastards.
Shame on them and shame on us, a must read by Joe Galloway.
The NY Times has a good article on political animals (yes, animals).
I introduced The Boy to 1988’s action blockbuster “Die Hard". I have a habit of reading tons of reviews on movies after I see them, and this time I discovered the American Film Institutes list of the fifty top movie villians list, courtesy of Alan Rickman’s performance as Hans Gruber. This film gets 4.3 starfish out of 5.
Can you guess what is the second-largest religious group on the Missouri State University campus? Cool.
This week's Marine Life Series on Daily Kos is part IV on hermit crabs.
This is Earth Hour Day. If you feel like taking part, all you have to do is shut off all your lights for one hour starting at 8:00 pm.
Do you believe in god? Vote here.
Why do cows go moo? They can’t get their tongues around the letter “n”.
Play! Name That Theme Song.
Remember a while back I did a whole post on teddy bears? Too bad I hadn’t seen this yet.
Update: Why the stuffed animals are thrown on the ice.
Thirteen beautiful gardens from around the world.
Morford: Thou shalt not kid thyself.
Bama has yet another pitch-perfect speech up on YouTube.
Look at the size of these Antarctic sea stars (via Knucklehead in comments).
Now we’re cookin’: Luncheon Loaf.
Sometime the second does matter, and these photos prove that.
You can check Is It A Leap Year? every February.
Honey beats meds at soothing children’s coughs. This is a study financed by the National Honey Board. In other news, I determined that people who don’t read the Biomes Blog daily are twenty times more likely to get testicular cancer. Including the women.
Now we’re cookin’: Maple lollipops with real bacon embedded in them, sent in by Mac.
Buy your glowing fingernails here.
Very cool striped Antarctic icebergs.
The Boy designed the banner for this tech website.
Five ways Clinton leads Obama.
If you’ve got cash to burn, why not purchase a gold pill to make “your innermost parts into chambers of wealth”? $425 each.
Happiness is being young or old, but middle age is misery.
Since I helped get Zeus the Unadoptable Dog adopted by a very nice couple, I’ve been rewarded with my next canine assignment at the Rescue League. Her name is Scarlet and she’s a nine-month-old Coonhound. Scarlet is completely untrained but is very calm and as sweet a dog as they come. She was found wandering the streets of Kentucky with two other dogs, all three of whom have somehow ended up in our animal shelter here in southern RI. As a long-time Ridgeback owner I’m a sucker for hounds, and am really looking forward to this task. I’ll have pictures up once I start working with her.
This is Crimson, my new baby octopus. He's only a few months old, and to give you an idea of how small he is that's an old-fashioned medicine bottle in the foreground that he likes to hide in.
It seems like my television plays nothing but prescription drug ads over and over again at certain times of the night. Now I remember why I gave up TV twelve years ago. Ask your doctor about Tequila.
The art of pencil sharpening.
Stuff You Should Know: How to cope with having no friends.
Gold, diamonds, Nike sneakers. Even chocolate companies are misusing child laborers.
Meet Mordecai, The Democratic Party’s new official donkey mascot. Here’s the Republican Party’s mascot.
The Predatory Lending Association (PLA).
Stuff You Should Know: How to be a Chuck E. Cheese walkaround character.
Timewaster of the Week: Click around to create your own flower garden.
Maintaining classroom discipline.
How Obama and Clinton do against McCain in polls.
My sharp-eyed business partner Rebecca noticed that also killed during that freak eagle ray accident in Florida was a remora, which you can see next to the right wing of the ray by clicking on the second photo in this story.
Animal of the Week: Spotted Eagle Ray.
Now we’re cookin’: How to make a real bacon burger. I think a few of these could kill you. (via apostropher).
Rock out there, little cockatoo.
I’m not at all into horror/slasher movies, but if you want a great scary movie, check out “The Vanishing”. Maybe it stems from claustrophobia, but this was one of the most terrifying films I’ve ever seen. Be sure to see the original 1988 Dutch version, not the Jeff Bridges/Keifer Sutherland 1993 remake, which changed the ending to make a happy story. 4.1 starfish out of five for the original. 2.0 starfish out of five for the remake.
I'm started phototherapy treatments for psoriasis on Monday, which isn't a serious condition but more of an annoyance since none of the meds we've tried over the past two years seem to work at all. So yesterday I go in for my tolerance test, which is done to see which light intensities are to be used based on your skin tone. This is so you aren't burned by the treatments. They cover your entire body, including goggles, gloves and a pillowcase over your head, except for five small patches on your back and place you in what is basically a vertical high intensity tanning booth. The five patches are exposed to varying degrees of UVB light to determine the safe level. Just before going in she said I could take off my jacket so I don't roast and she'd cover my arms with cloth. She placed the hood over my head but forgot to re-cover my forearms. I woke up in the middle of the night from my arms burning. From my elbow to my wrist my skin looks like a cooked lobster.
I had a photo but I thought I'd spare you a closeup of my hairy, red arm.
Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly.
Reject McCain is another niche blog, this one trying to save us from a third Bush term.
You can use the NameLab to find the meaning and origin of people’s names. Here’s mine, meaning basically “war-like”.
If you’ve ever wondered how they plow train tracks, this is how they do it (only you’re not supposed to get the plow train stuck).
Well, I know what I'll be doing at 8:00 each night this week. HBO's mini-series on John Adams, the first episode of which aired last night, is fantastic.
Saturday marked my 90th day of sobriety, and I've been asked to chair my AA group today. I'm a little bit nervous.
The Booze test. Name that drink. I got 94%.
Remember Zeus? He's the dog I've been sponsoring at the animal rescue league. The staff assumed he was unadoptable and would live out his life at the shelter. Well, I found a home for him with a couple who are moving to Maine next week.
At first they told us the war would pay for itself. A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
I’m assuming this antique pistol is actually a hair dryer.
