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Twenty architectural optical illusions.
That’s one lucky little gentoo penguin.
The most extreme conditions ever seen on earth.
I’ve always heard that drivers of red cars get more speeding tickets, but this, as well as nine other myths, is debunked in traffic ticket urban legends.
Southern quebec in comments sends this story about an octopus that keeps flooding the aquarium building it lives in.
Animal of the Week: The Pacific barreleye has a transparent head and eyes that can rotate in their sockets. This allows the fish to look through it’s own head to see what would otherwise be out of sight. You have to watch this video. I’ll be using this fish as the subject of my Marine Life Series essay tonight and have received permission via email from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to use their images. In fact, they were nice enough to send me copies of the high resolution photos to use. I’ll post the link here tomorrow.
Life is so rough for people living in $1.5 million glass apartments and sitting on $20,000 sectionals. I think this story actually wants you to feel bad for them.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman talks like a pirate.
This is what carrying octuplets looks like.
Five inappropriate movie soundtracks. Here’s my favorite:
The Big Picture has a collection of scenes from Antarctica.
Pet Corner: The Dog Photo Booth.
Lee links to Colbert's Oscar predictions in comments. He got four out of five right and beat out Nate Silver.
Play! Flash Chess III.
By far my favorite movie genre is culinary films. Cooks Den has a post up on the best food movies called the Culinary Cinema Awards.
Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Yes, I'm still on the couch. Click me and I get kinda big.
Let's see how Nate Silver did with his Oscar picks:
I wasn’t aware that a group of raccoons is called a “gaze”.
Watch some time-lapse videos of plants and flowers.
A History Too Kind is a great short essay by Devilstower.
How embarrassing is it to be the second-to-the-bottom country in public acceptance of evolution?
Albino Monday: Tawny Frogmouth.
This week’s Green Thing is a series of bizarre water fountains.
Watch some solar movies at Sun in Motion.
Timewaster of the Week: Take a shark break.
Via Blah3, two intact satellites have collided in space. Check out the third photo showing all of the objects currently orbiting the earth.
I’ve linked to statistician Nate Silver before because his election predictions where the most consistently accurate ones I had seen. Now he’s handicapping the Oscars and I’ll be willing to bet he’s right on the mark for these.
The Big Picture has some of the best photos of 2008 up, like this one of some jellyfish in a Hong Kong aquarium.
“A beard is a friend who is always there to give you a hug." and other thoughts by some Portland, ME “beardos”.
Lisa won five points for getting yesterday's trivia question right. I would have gone with the ostrich, but according to the Guiness Book of Records it's the cassowary.
Welcome to the band-aid museum.
Film critic Gene Siskel died ten years ago. Roger Ebert writes about him in Remembering Gene.
Buy your Alfred Hitchcock The Birds Barbie Doll here.
Trivia (5 Biomes points): Without googling this, what is considered to be the world’s most dangerous bird?
Here's another niche blog, this one dedicated to bird cages.
Animal of the Week: Hyacinth macaw.
Mixter has some great shots of one of her dam eagles feeding on a fish.
iPod Shuffle:
Today’s slide show is of the winners of the 1996 “small world” microphotography contest (click on “slide show” to view).
Stuff You Should Know: How to avoid twists and kinks in wires and hoses.
Watch our best ex-president on The Daily Show. It’s in two parts. As an aside, Carter was the first president born in a hospital.
Now that the stimulus plan has been passed, you can follow the money being used to hopefully start reversing the damage caused by eight years of republican rule at recovery.gov.
Now we’re cookin’: Baconhenge.
Assuming you consumed one gallon of liquid food mixed with water, this short survey will tell you approximately how far you could walk before you passed out ran out of gas.
Via Maru, here’s an impressive shot of the end of a rainbow, which looks like it’s actually touching down on the road.
Is Obama’s Elf the worst pun of all time?
Hump Day Musical Interlude: Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
Read Vanity Fair’s Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House.
In praise of Darwin and the spirit of inquiry.
Here’s a collection of weird fortune cookies.
The Guardian has picked twenty-five people most responsible for the financial mess we’re currently experiencing.
Cool Site of the Week: The Airbus A380 panorama.
Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Waiting for The Boy to come home. Click to embiggen.
Animal of the Week: The ladybug and its weird life cycle.
If you’re a C-SPAN junkie there’s a niche blog just for you.
Pet Corner: Things to do with your hamster when you’re bored.
How’s this for service? An author in Ohio learned from his book’s review on Amazon that a reader in Canada purchased a book missing the first 38 pages. So on Christmas morning the author got on a plane and flew to Canada to hand deliver a new copy. (via Onegoodmove)
Sign Lee Stranahan’s very funny boycott of Kelloggs.
Mystery solved: How the turtle got its shell.
Beautiful examples of HDR photography.
Here is xkcd’s Valentine’s Day comic, and here’s what he’s referring to.
A friend of mine asked me to take part in that “25 Random Things About Me” meme that’s been going around. I’ve only done three so far, but if Bush can do it I certainly shouldn’t have any trouble.
