Biomes Blog

Entry #1782

Unpopular halloween costumes.

Knife-shaped coat hooks.

The skin cancer towel.

You can join this singles site if you are into the undead.

Very odd gravestones.

Spooky sounds from Saturn and Titan (via NASA).

Halloween codes for kids.

Supposedly haunted libraries.

Entry #1781

Jar Binks salad, which is a side dish from the dark side.

Lessons from the Mona Lisa for digital photographers.

Mother Jones has an interactive map depicting the presence of US military bases around the world from 1950 to the present.

Morford: What’s your poison, citizen?

“Is it the wretched and touching fact that no one, not Repubs, not Dems, not animals or bacteria or flowers or rocks or the very air itself, no extant entity anywhere trusts George W. Bush as far as they can hurl him back to Crawford, Texas, in a quivering lump of historic failure?”

This site is a mess.

Hump day musical interlude: Oliver's Army.

Entry #1780

Sorry for the absence but I've spent the past two days in ICU with an atrial fibrillation. Ok now but I'm taking another day off and then back to the grind.

You’ve probably never heard of Don LaFontaine, but every one of you know his voice and have probably heard it hundreds of times. He died recently at the age of 68.

The science behind fly-swatting.

(Sorry, I'm having trouble with typepad's new html format.)

Entry #1779

Obama in Denver.

Don't.

Confessions of a campaign hack is worth a read.

The Last Supper in 16 billion pixels.

Watch a demonstration of an unbreakable umbrella.

Entry #1778

This week’s Green Thing is 25 ways to green your green.

Trophy kids go to work. (via Kevin Drum)

T-bone steak understudy for tots. The perfect toy for your little carnivore.

Take the caffeine click test. I clicked 150 times in 30 seconds, so my results show that I’m highly caffeinated, despite the fact that I haven’t had any coffee in the past 12 hours.

Entry #1777

Don't know where it came from, but this photo is pretty amazing (click to embiggen).

Take a flight simulation over Antarctica with the Electric Oyster. Move your mouse to control your direction.

SNL with Tina Fey and Will Ferrell.

Opie supports Barack.

Blame the sycamore tree.

Entry #1776

Science made stupid.

Peak Metal. We are rapidly running out of of more elements than just oil compounds.

Wolves in New England. A friend swears she saw one in western Rhode Island the other morning.

Worst V.P. pick ever.

I don’t want anyone cutting me up when I’m gone. Learn about autopsies and who gets sliced up after they die.

Don’t smoke tea, drink cigarettes.

"Filter work like float."

Entry #1775

Cool. I’m a Jedi knight.

how jedi are you? 

This is the part where everyone goes into the comments section and says "happy 44th birthday, Mark".

Gangsters: They don’t make ‘em like they used to.

Cool site of the week: More than you’ll ever need to know about how the brain works.

If you’ve ever wondered what the earth would look like without soil, water, cities or anything else on its surface, wonder no more.

Stuff you should know: How not to install an air conditioner.

You know, if the country wasn’t in such bad shape I’d be enjoying the antics of the hapless republicans and their savior flailin’ Palin so much more than I am. $150,000 for the Alaskan nitwit’s wardrobe is actually pretty funny.

Entry #1774

The Titan Arum has one of the largest flowers in the world. It is pollinated by flies and smells like rotting flesh to lead the insects to it. The flower alone can reach a height of ten feet. Here’s a web cam so you can follow the annual growth and flowering event.

Strange animal facts.

A statue of Elvis chiseled 1800 years before he was born.

Tom Toles: Watch out, Mr. Bush.

Traffic deaths rise on election days. What do you think?

Pet Corner: Flexpetz provides you with flexible pet ownership.

Entry #1773

McCain, fraud and the Keating Five. If you don’t remember this mess involving congressmen and Lincoln Savings and Loan, watch this report featuring an actual ’90’s banking regulator’s story. And McCain was never “exonerated” for his role, as the press and wingnut sites would have you believe. The facts are here.

Is our electorate learning? With Bush at 25% approval, it appears so.

Stuff you should know: All about muttonchops.

The Center for Orangutan and Chimpanzee Conservation.

Tuesday coonhound blogging: Squeeky the hedgehog, four minutes after being freed from his package, demonstrates why he was found in the $1 bargain bin at Shaws.

Entry #1772

October's architectural eyesore of the month.

Here are 66 stills from “The Simpsons” along with the movie scenes they represent.

Decorated sugar cubes.

Helicopter views of nighttime London.

Krugman (who won this year's Nobel prize in economics) sees McCain’s health care plan as the destruction of health care it is. Let’s look at this from the perspective of a small business owner: If I could provide my three employees with health care, I’d do it in a second. I tried a few years back, but even with the payments being tax deductible, I can’t afford it. Take away the employer tax deduction and I wouldn’t even consider it. And neither will many other small businesses.

Entry #1771

This week's Green Thing is the luna moth. I haven't come across one of these in at least fifteen years, but they are one of the most stunning living things you'll ever see.

Stuff you should know: 120 ways to boost your brain power.

Morford: Eighteen ways to know if you are an elitist.

A couple of people came out to see Obama and Biden in St. Louis the other day.

Swiftboat Willie.

Entry #1770

Cool Site of the Week: Pretty incredible photomosaics. Below is Obama made out of flags.

Ed Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon, doing so during the Apollo 14 expedition. If you wander through his website you’ll see that he believes we’ve been visited by little green men.

I’m 16,075 days old.

Today’s slide show is of the winners of the 1991 “small world” microphotography contest (click on “slide show” to view).

Imagine Sarah Palin in the Oval Office.

Entry #1769

Click image of this week's sign to embiggen.

And the undecided voters can’t figure out which guy looks more presidential. And Americablog has already posted a photoshop contest. Seriously, how anyone can be undecided at this point seems pretty bizarre. Of course, how anyone could actually want four more years of Bush is just as pathetic.

Trivia (5 Biomes points): What was the last ship to be sunk by a U-boat in WWI? It happened on this day in 1918.

Reject McCain.

Stuff you should know: The art of working out alone.

Add your wish to the I So Wish wish list.

Entry #1768

The New York Times explains derivatives, examines Alan Greenspan’s disastrous tenure as fed chairman, and once again proves that those in this country who voted for flightsuit boy because, even though they knew he wasn’t very bright, they thought he would surround himself with smart people, were wrong once again.

You’ve seen the “candidate X = ...” meme, now here’s the thread (via Maru).

The Codex, the oldest known copy of the bible, is being translated and will be available online next year. For biblical literalists, there are thousands of changes that have been made to what they believe is the inerrant word of god. Should be fun.

Bassets for Obama.

A ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and affixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car.