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Entry #2147

Cool pumpkin carvings.

The ten best ghost movies, vampire movies and werewolf films.

Unpopular halloween costumes.

Pet Corner: Here are some cats in costumes.

FSM costumes.

Entry #2146

Creepy halloween party foods.

These are the worst candies to give out at halloween.

Geek Stuff: USS Enterprise costume for dogs.

Cool Site of the Week: The Acid Cow has a collection of dead fly art.

 

iPod Shuffle:

1. Close to the Borderline (Billy Joel)
2. In My Place (Coldplay)
3. Oh, Brother (James Taylor)
4. Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
5. Against the Wind (Bob Seger)

Entry #2145

Animals of the Week: Bizarre-looking pigs.

Graham set up a facebook page for my business, so you all can now sign up to be a fan of Biomes. I’ll be mostly posting sea life stuff there that I usually don’t mention on the blog.

He also redesigned my entire web site. I'm pretty happy with it, especially the banner and slide show on the home page.

US Presidents: lists and records. They left off worst president ever, but Jon Stewart has that covered.

Meet England’s money tree.

Entry #2144

Fall foliage.

Hitler’s Gold: Uncovering the biggest bank heist in history.

Republican social networking site crashes hours after it’s launched. What do you think?

Why are the top ten growing professions all so boring?

Hump Day musical interlude:

Entry #2143: Rome Point

Nelson Mandela smells so good.

The pumpkin cannon, via Lance.

Now we’re cookin’: Vintage canned meat ads.

Welcome to the Chicago Coalition of Reason.

Tuesday coonhound blogging: Here’s Creole during a walk through John Chafee Nature Preserve at Rome Point Beach. This is the hot spot for seal watching in Rhode Island. We didn’t see any, but there were plenty of fish and she can’t help but chase them down. That’s the old Quonset Naval Base in the background, where the Quonset hut was developed. As usual, click to embiggen.

 

 

 

Entry #2142

Albino Monday: This moose is from George Walter's blog, and was photographed on a Wisconsin highway near Marenisco, Michigan. (Thanks, Hans.)

Timewaster of the Week: Find out what the internet thinks about pretty much any subject.

The average score for this Newsweek current events quiz is 34%. I got into the 95th percentile with 63%. Five Biomes points for anyone who beats my score on their first try.

If you wear a Jedi Knight costume in a grocery store, I’m not sure you can claim to be “emotionally humiliated” when you get thrown out.

Buy your balloon boy halloween costume here.

Entry #2141

This week’s Green Thing is a list of products you can buy, like puzzels and journals, that have seeds embedded in them. You bury the items in your garden and plants grow from them.

This water slide jump is actually a very well-done hoax. Snopes explains how they did it.

Morford: Greetings, Golden Gate bridge jumper.

How to walk a mouse on a cat on a dog.

Ten crazy dieting ideas.

Entry #2140

Pet Corner: Koda is the smallest horse in Australia. Watch a video of her visiting the vet.

Artist Peter Root made a city out of staples.

What to do if a volcano erupts near you.

Today’s slide show is of the winners of the 2005 “small world” microphotography contest (click on “slide show” to view).

Watch this Turkish ice cream acrobat.

Entry #2139: Forty-five

Doesn't seem like that long ago I mentioned turning forty. Let's see who else is turning something today. And based on this movie industry list, I share one with pretty much nobody of note.

Geek Stuff: The world’s smallest microwave oven can heat up lunch by plugging into your laptop.

View a photo gallery of Holland’s windmills and tulips.

The mystery of the toucan’s beak has been solved.

iPod Shuffle:

1. Poison Moon (Elvis Costello)
2. Every Little Thing She Does (The Police)
3. Spare Parts (Bruce Springsteen)
4. Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
5. Something More Besides You (Cowboy Junkies)

Entry #2138

Animal of the Week: The sublime swallowtail butterfly.

The weird encyclopedia.

Here’s a recipe for a whole stuffed camel. Serves 80-100.

Ten rules for slowing down and enjoying life more.

Patty got yesterday's trivia right with WYSIWYG, inspired by Flip Wilson's Geraldine Jones character. Here's Geraldine being interviewed by David Frost in 1970.

Entry #2137

Trivia (10 Biomes points): What internet acronym was inspired by Flip Wilson?

National Geographic has the details of that older-than-Lucy human skeleton recently discovered in Ethiopia.

Refuting ten major flaws of evolution.

I forgot September’s Carnival of the Blue, which is up at the Saipan Blog. My essay on sargassum communities is in there.

Hump Day musical interlude: 

Entry #2136: Bananas

Here’s a clip from Johnny Depp’s gangster flick, "Public Enemies”.

Now we’re cookin’: Chocolate banana pops.

Stuff you should know: How to create an urban legend.

Welcome to the Washington Banana Museum.

Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Working on nighttime recall in the woods, but Creole's tracking something instead. You'll probably need to click to actually see her. I never realized her coloring is camouflage.

Entry #2135

Spectacular dams from around the world. That's the Hoover Dam on the right.

Today’s long read is Haggling for Hot Dogs, by Tom Chiarella.

Watch the only known film footage of Anne Frank.

Learn how the web meme “FAIL” originated.

Albino Monday: RIP Captain Lou. Actually it's Albano, so it's a pretty bad error on that reporter's part. Along with some really terrible grammar in the story.

Entry #2134

This week’s Green Thing features a fight over plush toilet paper.

Buy your ponytail cap here.

Check out these alien-looking eggs that are found here on Earth.

Morford: Arms dealer to the stars!

Read an opinion column by Danny the Squirrel.

Entry #2133: I'm on TV

Here’s my interview with a local news station about my new octopus “Ruby”.

And I finally did another essay in my Marine Life Series on Daily Kos. This one's about the Red Knot.

The U.K. has statues commemorating animal war heroes.

Pet Corner: Paws up is an all-pet airline.