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Learn about the re-creation of a forty-year-old artwork dubbed “Mother Earth”.
Cool Site of the Week: Geohive has a huge collection of world statistics.
Today’s slide show is of the winners of the 2000 “small world” microphotography contest (click on “slide show” to view).
The forecast for tribal survival in the 21st century.
Pet Corner: Watch a rat staring contest.
A field guide to freeway interchanges, parts one and two. This one’s called the “double trumpet”.
Fact Unchecked. Any similarity to actual truth is coincidental, unintentional, and gravely unfortunate.
Watch Travis Pastana skydive without a parachute.
And yet another niche blog. In this one the author is putting together a 10,000 page coloring book. Click on the abstract drawings to embiggen them (and to print them out for coloring).
Read a fascinating account of what it’s like to experience hypothermia.
The precarious nests of storks.
Knucklehead got yesterday's trivia question right (so did Joel, but he changed his mind.) It's an oosik, which is the carved or decorated baculum, or penis bone, of a male walrus. You can purchase your own oosik, either fossilized or from a legally hunted animal, here if you really need to have one.
Geek Stuff: Bridge of the Starship Enterprise panorama.
Having taken a couple of plane trips in the past few years I’m no longer afraid of flying, but $9 airfares might make me a little nervous wondering what the airline was skimping on.
Play! Tom and Jerry.
You can analyze your Netflix rentals here, and it’s really easy to use. I’m not doing so well. Turns out I’ve rented 94 DVDs over the past two years (I’ve been a member since 2002) which comes out to $7.34 per disc with the five-at-a-time plan. I also keep my movies an average of 28 days, although I did keep one for 237 days which probably killed my stats.
For the lazy and inconsiderate we have the all-in-one card stamp.
I don’t understand this site called Save the Words.
Trivia (4 Biomes points): What’s this guy holding up?
Soap bar collecting is kind of an odd hobby.
Buy your tred-not deerfly patches here. You place these sticky swatches on your hat and soon your head will be coated with dead biting insects. Very attractive.
Today’s slide show is called The Ruins of Detroit.
Hump day musical interlude: Last week we had Ryan Adams’ “Two”. This week we have Johnny Cash singing U2’s “One”.
Meet Henry Earl. He’s been arrested 1334 times since 1970 and holds the U. S. record in this event.
Mockingbirds can recognize individual people and even hold grudges against those who had threatened them in the past.
Skip the botox. Try facial yoga. It’s today’s slide show.
There’s this incredible monastery in Burma that is built on top of a volcanic plug. Before seeing this I didn’t even know what a volcanic plug was. Now I do.
Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Creole in front of the reemerging hummerfly garden. I filled that raised bed with milkweed seeds last fall and will be weeding it out once I figure out which sprouts are which. Click image to embiggen.
Weird-looking amphibians. This one’s a budgett’s frog. Although that's its normal coloring, let's consider this guy this week's Monday albino animal.
Stuff you should know: What half a million can buy you house-wise in various countries.
Learn about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide.
If you eat while driving, you need the BeltzBib.
Here’s a collection of vintage black and white photographs of New York.
This week’s Green Thing is news that Obama has reversed the damage done by Bush to the endangered species act. I’m betting dubya was the kind of kid who yanked the wings off flies.
Black bears playing on a hammock.
Thirty more beautiful pictures of animals.
Twelve ugly cell phones.
Timewaster of the Week: Create your own rotating balls optical illusion.
This week's Marine Life Series essay on Daily Kos is about the Sargassumfish. It's a rerun from a diary I wrote in November of 2006.
What’s a Hulu? The origins of eight high-tech names.
Here’s a silly llama song.
Stuff You Should Know: The origins of some English place names.
Now we’re cookin’: Here’s how to make your own artery-clogging 17,000 calorie meat ship being attacked by a sausage octopus.
National Geographic presents seven of the biggest beasts of all time
Battlezoo is another niche blog, this one being specifically dedicated to animals fighting. It takes a fun but scientific view of territoriality and other conflict behaviors, so don't worry about disturbing images of dog fights and stuff. In case you haven't noticed, I'm completely fascinated by niche blogs.
Buy your racktrap here. Sold individually or in a set of four for some reason.
Play! Pick the Perp.
Trivia (5 Biomes points): Who's this?
Police use taser on fake cougar.
You don’t see a lot of comedy coming out of Australia for some reason, but this old piece of humor is quite good. I posted it a few years ago. The Front Fell Off.
Check out the shadow chair.
Learn about five of the world’s weirdest plants. This corpse flower above is three feet across and attracts pollinating flies by smelling like rotting flesh.
Stuff you should know: How to bend a spoon with just your mind.
Letterman’s top ten ways the GOP can become more hip.
An art student shows us how to make a car disappear.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: Creole in front of the bleeding hearts. Click to embiggen.
Do you know how much sugar is in your food?
Stuff you should know: How to write a bestselling fantasy novel (thanks Angelica).
Watch the president’s Notre Dame speech. Anyone know what the hecklers were saying at around the four minute mark?
Bald guys can buy their flair hair hats here.
Albino Monday: Watch a short video featuring a bunch of white animals.
The ten greatest mustaches of all time.
The ten most revealing psych experiments.
The ten worst comic book vacation destinations.
Dennis Hartley takes a look at his top ten mockumentaries.
