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This week's Green Thing is a site called The Environmental News Network.
Great unsolved mysteries in Canadian history.
The Big Picture has a photo set of horses at work and at play, taken at this year’s Breeders’ Cup championship.
A beautiful photo of Mudge Pond, posted by Jerry Doolittle.
The Screw Asylum is another niche blog, this one all about the fascinating life of screws.
Pet Corner: A two-faced kitten born in Perth survived its first night. I’ll try to find some updates on its condition, since if it actually survives it would be pretty incredible.
The Ale gets 100 mpg clean and fast.
Animal of the Week: Yawning lions.
Photos that changed the world.
iPod Shuffle:
Morford: Change and gratitude.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
Fifty websites that make cable tv obsolete.
80 awesome weight loss tips.
Now we’re cookin’: Seven deadliest delicacies.
Stuff you should know: How to live with just 100 things.
Twenty abandoned cities and towns.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: Creole won't give up her sunbeam without a fight. We passed our first round of tests for certification as a therapy dog. Once we're certified we can go into schools, hospitals and nursing homes to visit patients. My first goal is to visit kids in the cancer ward via the tomorrow fund. I think these kids will love my dog, and she'll be a good representative for her species. Give if you can and click to embiggen.
Take a civics test. Elected politicians scored an abysmal 44%. For what it’s worth I got three wrong (#’s 8, 12 and 33), for a score of 91%.
Turns out that the more atheistic a society is the nicer the people tend to be to one another.
Geek Stuff: The MST3K guys goof on a ten-minute instructional video from the 50’s called “What To Do on a Date”, via The Boy.
Cool Site of the Week: Julie’s Pet Blog.
Morford: Why buy a house?
So, why are porpoises washing up on shore looking like this? Dave Neiwert explains, and yes, it’s Bush’s fault as usual.
Sullivan found a dog on a trampoline.
Now we’re cookin’: 25 awesome foods you never knew could be deep-fried.
I haven't given away any of my secret recipes in a while, so here's how you can make my beef and pork meatloaf:
Sautee one diced, large onion in two tbl butter and set aside. In a large bowl combine all of the following: 1 lb lean ground beef, 1 lb ground pork, 1 cup bread crumbs (I like to use panko), 1/2 cup cooked rice, 2 large eggs, 1/2 cup beef broth, 1 cup grated cheddar cheese, 2 cloves diced garlic, salt and pepper and 1 tbl each of thyme, paprika, allspice and oregano. Add the cooked onions and blend well by hand. Fill a loaf pan and top with five or six bay leaves.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. Remove from oven and let cool before slicing.
This week’s Green Thing are houses with lawns on the rooves.
Top 31 sitcom mothers of all time.
Buy your men’s underwear repair kit, complete with instruction man-u-al, here.
There’s an email going around claiming that the swiffer wet-jet is killing off pets due to the anti-freeze in the cleaning fluid. The emails say that it's been verified by Snopes, which it has: as false.
Scientific American takes a look at anxiety disorders and panic attacks.
Obama’s weekly “radio” address. This cracks me up, in a good way. He's not even president yet, but it is so nice to have a leader who actually has a brain. I remember back in high school thinking that we could never elect someone as stupid as Reagan, and then we did. And now Palin is the face of GOP. Well, good. Keep that antiquated party irrelevant as long as possible with idiots and failures. Anyway, Barack is supposedly going to do one of these every week and I'm thinking about posting them as a regular feature. Let me know what you think.
Today’s slide show is of the winners of the 1992 “small world” microphotography contest (click on “slide show” to view).
Pet Corner: Buy your Foggy Mountain dog coats here.
If it’s so great to be smart, why have most animals remained dumb?
Big photos of this year’s Olympics by Boston.com’s The Big Picture.
If you need an alibi, you can purchase one here.
This week's Marine Life Series on Daily Kos is about the dumbo octopus.
I must have this table (thanks Lisa).
Stuff you should know: Everyday items with forgotten names.
Nine reasons not to date a T.rex.
The idea of pantyhose for men is just gross and this meme is going nowhere.
As a skeptic, I agree that this story of a girl who can produce razor-sharp crystals from her eyes is a hoax. Here’s some video of this fraud.
In James Bond through the ages, Kim Morgan looks at how each of the six Bond actors reflected the eras in which they played the super spy.
Top ten James Bond one-liners.
Today’s slide show is Bond Girls: Declassified.
Why Judi Dench is the ultimate Bond girl.
I was going to link to Bond's Wikipedia entry, but he's got his own wiki.
Hump day musical interlude: The Spy Who Loved Me intro, by Carly Simon.
George Packer on the fall of conservatism.
Meet the slinky cat.
Cool Site of the Week: Watching America translates news and opinion about America from different foreign language sources around the world. Like this one from Norway called “God as Denial of Responsibility”.
Rate of loss of natural teeth by state. Apparently DC and Puerto Rico are now states.
Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: After three days of clouds and rain, Creole finds a sunbeam. Click to embiggen.
I have my doubts about the benefits of the OCD diet. At each meal you only eat foods that rhyme. Like a dinner of lamb heart and treacle tart, or a breakfast of fruit loops and tomato soup (shown at left). Where’s Steve when you need him?
Cool Site of the Week: The dynamic periodic table of elements.
The Big Picture has a collection of photos of our next president. I love this one I found over at Jerome’s place.
Buy your bacon floss here.
Albino Monday: Watch a very short video of an albino fawn.
According to H.L. Mencken, a demagogue is: “...one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.” Pretty much defines Fox News. More quotes from Mencken here.
Once every 2,000 posts a blog needs a closeup of the author's ear. I lost my earring a few years ago and never bothered to replace it. Yesterday I got myself a new one and didn't even have to get the hole reopened. The second piercing right above this one will stay empty forever.
Empire reviews Quantum of Solace.
Two Jehovah’s Witnesses come knocking at my door. Man, this guy was even more brutal than I’d be. I almost felt sorry for those two women.
Eight amazing geographic holes (thanks Brenda).
Obama’s transition team is already compiling a list of Bush’s worst offenses that they plan on correcting when they takes office in January. FDR, Carter, Clinton and now Obama had all been hired to remove the stain and damage caused by their incompetent and corrupt republican predecessors. I’m not sure when voters will see a pattern here and just keep those clowns out of the white house in the first place.
