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Eight fictional cities you wouldn’t want to live in.
Pet Corner: Buy your kitty wigs here.
Play! Zwingo.
Ultra-geeky home cinemas. Who wouldn’t want to watch a movie in the bat cave?
I’ve highlighted many niche blogs, but the puddle blog is not just a blog about puddles. It’s a blog about one puddle.
May’s Carnival of the Blue, which is a monthly collection of marine science essays from around the blogosphere, was hosted by Island of Doubt. One of my Daily Kos essays is in there. I’ll be hosting the Carnival next January.
A link and a mention by Avedon over at Atrios’ place got me over 1,700 hits the other day. And two ad clicks!
Glad I don’t live in Canton this month (via David).
I was reading this post by Atrios and realized that I’m among the probable 95% who couldn’t accurately describe what Hamas actually is. So I let Wikipedia educate me so that I may someday know what I’m talking about if it ever comes up in conversation.
Knucklehead gets 5 points for yesterday's trivia. It’s the city square of what used to be Chernobyl. More photos here. As a reminder, I'm keeping track of everyone's points. When someone reaches 100 I'll donate $25 to the charity or democratic candidate of their choice. DJ is closest with 93. When you reach 100 you start back at zero but everyone else keeps their points.
I had a conversation with another coonhound owner who described how her relatives in North Carolina use their dogs. People are sick, the dogs are just doing what they are bred to do. And after that bit of unpleasantness, how about another Creole pic? This pup won't be killing any racoons.
Trivia (5 Biomes points): Where was this photo taken?
A leatherback turtle was tracked swimming from Indonesia to Oregon, clear across the the Pacific Ocean.
To Republicans: Conservatism has failed. Deal with it.
Hump day musical interlude: Do you remember these?
Stuff You Should Know: How to beat a polygraph test.
Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Creole turns six months old. We'll be starting obedience classes in a couple of weeks with this guy.
It's been about five years since I've used a razor rather than just a beard trimmer. That shirt used to be white.
Dog blogging inspired by Tbogg.
The upside of $4 per gallon gas.
This short video of a woodpecker supposedly mistaking an aluminum ladder for a tree is going around the net as a funny video. The noise a woodpecker makes is to establish territories and attract mates, so this bird has actually found a way to improve on its sound. I doubt it’s confused at all.
A Mark Morford column is always a work of art, but he’s outdone himself with That is not Cameron Diaz.
Ebert reviews the new Indy movie.
Here are a few theories about why gas prices are so high. The reason could also be that we are not praying hard enough, according to a typically insane reporter at Fox News. Jon Stewart, of course, has his own take.
Meet Aditya Dev, the world’s shortest bodybuilder.
I hope every hoopy frood reading this remembered to carry around their towel yesterday.
Cool Site of the Week: Watch environmental videos at Planet Bonehead.
Albino Monday: Another tiger.
This week's Green Thing is Grendal, my 20-year-old green iguana. In addition to being raised for the pet trade (where most of them die young from metabolic bone disease because of a lack of direct sunlight), iguanas are now being raised for food as part of Central American rainforest conservation programs.
Keith Olbermann lays off Bush for this special comment, ripping into Hillary Clinton for what is probably her own special “Macaca Moment”.
Mentos and Coke explosion, part II.
Watch some dolphins playing with their own bubble rings.
Fifty ways to help the planet.
Check out Zhan Wang’s recreation of the city of San Francisco, sculpted in cookware.
Now we’re cookin’: Everyone’s jumping on the YouTube bandwagon. Foodtube is the latest I’ve seen.
Things that are younger than McCain.
A couple of people ventured out to see the Obama family at a rally in Portland the other day.
Send your name to the moon.
This is kind of a neat service. Sign up with Greendimes for $15 and they’ll reduce your junk mail by 90% plus plant ten trees.
I’m wishing Ted Kennedy all the best, but it’s amazing to me to think that he has served in the Senate two years longer than I’ve been alive.
Warren Buffett invests like a girl.
Jimmy Buffett's "Captain America" lyrics and a piece of the song.
Krugman: Stranded in Suburbia.
Buy your dog to unicorn transformation kit here.
Wanderlust music video, by Bjork.
Tuesday coonhound blogging (a new feature!). Creole takes a break from gnawing on my feet. There is nothing this hound won't chew.
The real McCain, part two, from the great orange satan. God, so to speak, help us if the citizens of this country are as clueless as they have been for the past two elections and this clown ends up in the white house.
A tale of three lawyers, by Scott Horton of Harper’s Weekly.
Cool Site of the week: Explore Peak Oil Blues.
109 historians rate Bush as the worst president ever.
How awesome is Robert Siegel’s beard?
Cectic #32: Just leave on the damn light.
Oshiyas are Japanese train pushers, helpfully getting people onto the train in the morning. And you know I don't just throw strange terms out there for you to google, so learn about them here.
"Sure, what's the harm in believing in two things with no physical evidence?"
Rating the super hunks was a pretty interesting read even if, like me, you’re really not into comic books. Two hours of my weekend disappeared at this site.
If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived.
The Boy's anti-prom.
This video demonstrates different ways money is counted in various countries and regions. Some of the methods are kind of bizarre.
Albino Monday: Twenty animals in desperate need of a tanning salon. Like this squirrel.
This week's Big Thing is a pretty huge bee. I'm getting bored with the "big things", so I need more suggestions for a new useless Sunday photo theme.
Ghost Woods, a photo by Jerome.
Obama: The amazing money machine.
Watch a trailer for “Bigger, Stronger, Faster”.
And the official Dark Knight website is very cool.
Letting Go: Smoking and Non-Smoking, an essay by David Sedaris.
Buy your Anti-Monkey Butt Powder Anti-Friction Plus Sweat Absorber here.
Indiana, this is stunning.
This week's Marine Life essay is about the blue-eyed scallop. It's a repost from a diary I wrote in August 2006.
Republicans: Doughy. White. Happy.
Good Christian that he is, Huckabee (R-of course) jokes about Obama’s assassination. CNN video here, and I commend the NRA members for not laughing at this lame attempt at humor.
R.M.S. Titanic was the name of the boat, which stood for “Royal Mail Ship”. The story of it’s cargo is pretty fascinating.
This site claims that someone is selling edible babies made out of chocolate. Snopes puts this myth to rest by showing us that these are actually clay sculptures created by artist Camille Allen.
I never thought I’d say this about Chris Matthews, but this smackdown is a thing of beauty.
Stephen Colbert mocks O’Reilly.
Play! for Obama.
Play! for Hillary.
Sing along with Three Dog Night.
Here’s Rock the Vote’s website. Pass it on to the kids.
Stuff White People Like is a fairly new blog about stuff white people like.
Awww. Cute.
Glad to see racism is dead in the U.S. and A.
The laughable new slogan for the 2008 elections being pushed by the Republicans is “The Change You Deserve”, which is made even more absurd by the fact that this slogan is trademarked by a company that markets an antidepressant.
When Obama wins. Keep clicking on the white text.
How the always wrong right wing will attack Obama. Get ready for every one of these talking points to be used again and again. Conservatives can’t win on issues because conservatism is a failed ideology. All they have are smears and lies.
Racist Florida license plates may be coming soon from a redneck near you.
How to inspire people like Obama does.
Humpday musical interlude: I am, I said.
Movie Rating: Fantastic Four and the Rise of the Silver Surfer.
When I was eight years old I spent a few months bedridden with rheumatic fever. I spent most of this time pouring over comic books, especially the Marvel and Action superhero genre. So I get a bit nostalgic about these superhero movies that have come out over the past ten or so years. The Fantastic Four was one of my favorites and I was pretty disappointed with the first film, in what I fear will be a series, that came out a few years ago. So out of some demented sense of duty I put myself through the pain of watching this sequel, and it was worse than I imagined. The plot made absolutely no sense, the villians were undeveloped to the point that they didn’t even matter to the story, the jokes fell flat and the romance was juvenile. 1.3 starfish out of 5, mainly for the surfer’s cool surf board, which too was sadly undeveloped and the source of its power was left completely unanswered.
More email lies are spread about Obama, this one stating that he refuses to sing the national anthem.
Burma or Myanmar. Why can’t the newspapers just pick a name and go with it?
Tree jewelry. The ultimate gift for the garden.
French proverbs from 1611.
Cool Site of the Week: The peopling of the world.
These are my archives.
Lance Mannion on Indiana Jones.
I don’t know if this shark-surfing video is on the level, I’m leaning towards “no”, but if it is this guy’s little thrill ride has left a big fish with a hook, line and fishing pole attached to its mouth.
Drunkorexia. The New York Times coins a new term.
Albino Monday: Dick Cheney’s cat, Snarl Jr.
