Biomes Blog

Entry #1933

Here’s a map showing where a bunch of TV sitcoms took place.

Flowing Data has collected 27 infographics pertaining to the republican credit crisis.

This Fox News/Wikipedia report is hysterical. Why bother to distort real news when you can just make up your own?

An unscientific look at social networking site demographics.

Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Creole gets a little braver. Grendal, as usual, is unfazed as she munches on squash and collard greens. Forgot to mention last week that the iguana will be 22 years old in a couple of months.

Entry #1932

Watch a trailer for Spike Jones’ movie version of “Where the Wild Things Are”, coming out next fall.

The Uncomb. You’ll never part with it.

100 Life Magazine photos that changed the world.

Stuff You Should Know: How to pull a Ferris Bueller.

Albino Monday: Harbor seal. I keep getting emails saying that some of these aren't really albinos. I know. Pigment deficient animals are called leucistic, and albinism is one form. "Leucistic Monday" doesn't have the same ring to it.

Entry #1931

Super pictures of water drops.

To combat budget cuts, a teacher in Idaho is selling ad space on his classroom handouts and tests.

Morford: When chaos calls.

How progressive are you? Take the quiz. Apparently I’m “extremely progressive”, with a score of 339/400. It says the national average is 209.5  but it’s actually the “median”.

This week’s Green Thing are reusable, two-way mailers by Ecoenvelopes.

Entry #1930

This week's Marine Life Series essay is up over at Daily Kos. It's about the newly discovered psychedelic frogfish.

It’s ok to cry about the Bush-wrecked stock market. Get yourself a Dow Jones Hanky for just $28 here.

What does a trillion dollars look like?

Play! Jim Cramer’s Crashteroids. Be sure to blast the Fox News logo to stop the crowd’s booing.

Giant seabird’s fossilized skull found in Peru.

Entry #1929

The most alien-looking place on earth is probably Socotra Island, an isolated island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, that is loaded with endemic species of plants and animals, like this dragon’s blood tree, found nowhere else but here.

Stuff you should know: How to build a portable bench.

If you’re going to eat an endangered lizard, don’t post the photos on Facebook.

I got this from actor Jeff Bridges’ site, and it really does work.

Visit Factropolis for a new fun trivia fact every day.

iPod Shuffle:

1. Miss You (Rolling Stones)
2. Sugar Baby (Bob Dylan)
3. The Real Life (John Mellencamp)
4. Don't Cry A Tear (Lyle Lovett)
5. Ballad of A Runaway Horse (Emmylou Harris)

Entry #1928

Michael Moore explains, rather convincingly, why he’s not the Democratic Rush Limbaugh.

Young earthers are so adorable.

Animal of the Week: The endangered axolotl.

This photo of a lead bullet hitting a razor blade is pretty incredible, via Tony. It’s part of a series of high-speed bullet shots that make up today’s slide show.

Meet the three-foot-high volkswagon bus.

Entry #1927

How to paint the Mona Lisa with hamburger grease.

Stuff you should know: How to charge your iPod without an outlet.

Turns out horses were domesticated much earlier than we thought.

The world’s most-pierced woman is up to 6005, 1500 of them internal.

Hump Day musical interlude: "Mr. Jones", by the Counting Crows.

Entry #1926

Watch some dolphins playing with bubbles (via Karen).

If you’ve ever wondered what that look is called when a person’s mouth is downturned at the corners, sturgeonface has the answer.

Stuff you should know: There’s a “24” wiki.

Smile, your coffee loves you.

Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Creole meets Grendal the Iguana.

Entry #1925

Find out your chances of getting a tapeworm here.

Stuff you should know: Five weird things about water.

Today’s slide show is of the winners of the 1997 “small world” microphotography contest (click on “slide show” to view).

Jon Stewart interviews The Boss.

Albino Monday: Via Pablo, BBC has a story about a baby albino elephant seen in Africa’s Okavango Delta.

Entry #1924

This week’s Green Thing is Europe’s grass-lined rail system.

Morford: Death by moron.

The pope totally looks like a frilled lizard.

Menu picture vs reality comparison of Wendy’s gourmet mushroom swiss burger.

Learn about the fantastic floating islands of Titicaca.

Entry #1923: Biomes on Fox

I was asked to appear on one of those morning talk shows yesterday to discuss some of my marine animals. I didn't feel like being on TV so I let one of my staff do the honors. Here's the more photogenic Rebecca with my also more photogenic pufferfish:

Entry #1922

Now we’re cookin’: Pac-man sugar cookies.

Richard Dawkins answers an audience member’s question, “What if you’re wrong?”.

The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.

Hummer drivers get more tickets. A lot more.

Meet Darren Atkinson, jack of all trades, master of drums. Atkinson has made a living as a drummer and professional dumpster-diver for the past 16 years.

iPod Shuffle:

1. Ride Across the River (Dire Straits)
2. The Country Life (Crash Test Dummies)
3. Seven Curses (Bob Dylan)
4. You Wear it Well (Rod Stewart)
5. We Work the Black Seam (Sting)

Entry #1921

Animal of the Week: Deep-sea comb jelly luminescing. Comb jellies are in a phylum called ctenophora, and are not related to jellyfish.

This is a very cool-looking cave home that is for sale in Missouri for only $300,000.

Hamburgers clog major arteries.

The periodic table of cupcakes, with recipes for each one.

Republican history lesson.

Entry #1920

Thirty-five beautiful photographs of animals.

I know how frustrating it is to show up at social functions, gala balls and cocktail parties only to find some guy is wearing the same jeans and sneaker brand as me, so I consult with whatareyouwearing? to avoid those wardrobe faux pas (pas’? pases? What’s the plural?)

Try out the GOP Problem Solver. Ask it any question and it will produce the best republican solution.

Take the Densa test and post your scores. I got 11 out of 12, but remember that the most obvious answer is wrong.

Hump Day Musical Interlude: Eric Clapton singing Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice”.

Entry #1919

Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Now that the backyard has thawed, we discover that Creole is a digger. This isn’t leave-the-dog-out-all-day frustration digging, but the result of ten minutes on the run while I take a shower. John Cole had a perfect observation yesterday:

“I’m not sure people understand that once you get a pet, you simply don’t own anything anymore. They own it all. Sometimes they let you use it.”

How to destroy the world with nanotechnology. That’s amazing!

Timewaster of the Week: Press the red button to get an instant tumbleweed.

View a gallery of really crappy balloon art.

It’s probably not a good idea to try to kill head lice by soaking your hair in gasoline.