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Matt Taibi explains how the media -- the suits, not the reporters -- get to decide who runs for higher office.
Albino Monday: Once again Hans comes through with this week’s white animal. It’s a red-tail hawk.
Graham Jeffery has a gallery of beautiful smoke photographs enhanced with color by computer.
Timewaster of the Week: Zoomquilt is an on-going collaborative art project that was started in 2007.
Today’s long read is a fantastic critique of cruise ships by David Foster Wallace. It’s a pdf.
By request, another shot of Ruby. She really doesn't like the flash of a camera at all, and she now backs away from and stares intently at any hand-held piece of technology, like cameras and cell phones. I tried holding up my iPod to the glass and she did the same thing. It's the first sign of cognitive thinking I've seen in her. It's hard to tell here, but she isn't taking her eye off the camera for a second as she slinks away. Click her to big her.
Maternal mortality rates are shamefully high in the U.S., another reason for health care reform.
Here’s a list of which side of the road they drive on in various countries and why.
Buy your bike mustache here.
Morford and this week’s Green Thing: Top ten uses for “Going Rogue”. In case you don’t like reading Mark, he's found a bookstore in San Francisco that is donating 100% of the profits from Palin’s book to the Alaska Wildlife Alliance.
“WARNING: Studies have shown that consuming foods grown using compost made from the pages of any book written by conservative politicians and/or Fox News pundits may result in bloating, brain damage, grammar mutilation and the mad desire to taxidermy your cat."
Pet Corner: In praise of the mutt. Having owned both purebreds and mixed breeds, I'm also in favor of the mutt.
Today's slide show is an aerial look at the Sahara Desert in Libya.
World’s ugliest toes contest.
There's a niche blog called Bank Notes, which catalogues actual notes used in bank robberies.
Newborn babies cry with an accent.
I knew there was a Thanksgiving Day tradition of the president pardoning a turkey, but I didn’t realize the vice-president also gets to pardon a favorite holiday food.
Meet some Palin supporters. Try not to be embarrassed that you share a country with them.
Geek Stuff: Buy your t-shirts from Think Geek here.
Finally got a good shot of Ruby eating. Click her and you'll see she's torn the top part of the carapace off and is letting it drop away as she eats the rest of the body. She won't eat the claws and legs, so I keep a few starfish in her tank and they quickly finish off the appendages so they don't pollute the water.
I'm skipping trivia this week because nobody reads during the holidays. New question next Wednesday.
Ten crazy collections. Including Pez dispensers, oil cans and sea sponges.
New technology allows parents to hold a life-size model of their unborn child.
Hump day musical interlude: An elk calf playing in a mud puddle to Bach.The simplest justification for a health care public option.
The five biggest Republican lies about health care.
Stuff you should know: Men lose their minds when talking to attractive women.
Now we’re cookin’: Nine different doughnut sandwiches.
Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: Creole's morning squirrel watching routine. Click it to big it.
As is consistent with this map, I call soft drinks “soda”. I don’t get the red areas. If you were drinking a sprite or a Dr. Pepper why would you still call it “Coke”?
More incentive to stop drinking soda, or to at least stop giving it to your kids.
Left-handed toons (by right-handed people).
Today’s long read is an Associated Press fact checking of Caribou Barbie’s new book.
Albino Monday: Another hummer.
This week’s Green Thing is seven unexpected ways to save water.
Here's a kitty bed gallery.
I’ve never even heard of ekranoplans before.
Morford: Who’s afraid of big black dogs? It ain’t easy being a great dark beast in a world of tiny yapping puffballs.
The Movie Moron lists his ten favorite romantic comedies, with clips.
I haven't had the time to put together an original diary for my Daily Kos Marine Life Series, so I posted up a reprise essay about sargassumfish.
The history of the flying pig.
November's eyesore of the month.
Today’s slide show is a series of pics from Scientific American’s bioscapes photo contest. These were runners-up (runner-ups?).
Arielle Nadel is a teenage photographer. She’s working on what she calls a 365 project which follows the story of a character named Danboard.
Twelve creative bathtubs.
Geek Stuff: Ten internet rules and laws: From Godwin to Poe.
A zoo in Gaza got around the restrictions against importing foreign animals by dyeing two donkeys so they look like zebras.
iPod shuffle:
If you’re flying Air New Zealand you’ll have to watch an in-flight air safety video starring crew members wearing only body paint made to resemble their actual uniforms.
Animal of the Week: The pacu, a fish with humanoid teeth.
Joel nails yesterday's trivia for five points. It’s a photo of the sun taken in red light and then inverted to appear blue.
How to think like a genius.
These images, like this one of a staircase, were created by folding and creasing pieces of paper.
Trivia (5 Biomes points): What's this?
AccuWeather has a photo essay of a week spent in a weather station at the top of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, which by the way has the record for strongest winds in the U.S. (Thanks, Tony)
This is the official News Network website for the country of Haiti. I’m not kidding.
Ten creative ways to prepare Mac’ n’ Cheese.
Hump day musical interlude: Sheryl Crow singing Dylan’s “Mississippi”. Awesome. Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: I forgot to get some pics of Creole this week, so here are some pups I found online.
Now we’re cookin’: Find out what’s on your food.
I can’t read Norwegian, but I’m pretty sure this is a gigantic swarm of mosquitoes.
Stuff you should know: The fifty things that are being killed by the internet.
Welcome to the group blog of the Sussex Amateur Brain Surgery Club.
Awesome 3-D murals painted on walls.
Today’s sorta long read is Atheists are good humans, too.
The Boy has a post up on his blog that I’m really proud of him for.
This is possibly the funniest thing a member of Congress has ever said on TV. Read the second paragraph. (via Velvet Blog)
Albino Monday: Canada’s white spirit bears. Albinos have an advantage over normal colored ones by being 30% more efficient at catching salmon.
