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Morford: Hey kids! Love will destroy you!
Krugman takes a look at the first decade of the 21st century and determines that it’s a big zero.
This week’s Green Thing is the Environmental Defense Fund’s fantastic Seafood Selector. If you eat fish you should probably bookmark this page.
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Animal of the Week: The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama, a lizard that looks a lot like spiderman.
Trivia Answer: For some reason puffers use up iodine faster than other species, so a deficiency is not uncommon in captivity. Like in humans, this leads to a goiter, which prevents the mouth from closing and leads to starvation. This puffer wouldn't respond to the regular treatment of adding liquid iodine to the water. I cured it by soaking its food in regular table salt each day for an hour before feeding it. You could actually see the goiter shrinking more and more each day (15 points to Mustang Sally).
Meet the WHY yacht.
Trivia: This four-year-old puffer fish has a medical problem and you get 15 Biomes points to name it. The hints are the open mouth while breathing and the lump under the throat. I did cure this a few days after the photo was taken, but how I did it would give it away.
Remember “crasher squirrel”? Now we have a crasher seal, which popped into the frame while a group of penguins were being photographed.
Nick Ladendorf, who is running for a house seat from Missouri, has my vote for the coolest candidate website.
Ten gag-inducing foods.
A professional photographer did some portfolio work at my center this weekend. Wish I had six grand for a camera. Click the lionfish to embiggen. I caught this one in Rhode Island waters four years ago and put together a Daily Kos essay about it at the time. You can really see the difference in those shots I took.
Stuff you should know: How to avoid getting doored.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: If you're interested in this breed, and you should be, you can't go wrong with a coonhound rescue group.
Now we’re cookin’: An edible chocolate couch.
With his first year at a close, here are 90 accomplishments the president has made in his first twelve months. I wish this list had links, but it’s still pretty impressive.
Reader Tony alerts me to a new bridge being built 900 feet above the Colorado River at the Hoover Dam that is pretty impressive.
Shangrala has a photo collection of some of the world’s largest things.
Bacon dental floss. You can buy some here.
Welcome to the camel hub of the web.
Hotel Bed Jumping is yet another interesting niche blog.
Today’s slide show features real people who look like cartoon characters.
Pet Corner: Ginger's pet rescue specializes in death row dogs.
This week’s Green Thing is a list of five things you should always recycle.
Geek Stuff: Twins.
Cool Site of the Week: Watch obscure old movies online.
Mirriam-Webster has released their list of words of the year for 2009, based on how often they were searched for online. The top word is admonish. Here’s the rest.
Ocean Spray has a cranberry bog cam set up in Lakeville, MA. It’s mostly covered in ice right now.
Animal of the week: The plight of the polar bear in 32 pictures.
Those guys that built skyscrapers back in the twenties were crazy.
I had to look up what a “twitcher” was, but in any case a flock of starlings gave them the bird.
Meet the watermelon baby.
Albino Monday: Rare sailfish caught off Cabo San Lucas (via Hans).
I’m not sure how Frank Schaeffer slipped past my radar, but this appearance on Maddow’s show is a must see as he explains, as a former insider, the insane thought process of the fundamentalist Christian Republican.
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New research on dolphin intelligent now makes them the second smartest animals on the planet, and may lead to considering them “non-human persons”, hopefully giving them new protections.
A new species of tiny dinosaur has been discovered. The adults weighed only two pounds.
Photographer John Huck goes around to restaurants and takes pictures of people with their breakfasts. He’s put up a gallery page loaded with his work.
A virus walks into a bar... and other science jokes.
Morford: In Hi, I find you totally offensive, Mark takes a look at some of his more obnoxious online detractors.
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This week’s Green Thing is an indoor living wall planter for growing house plants vertically.
Play! Whack-A-Wingnut.
A story about a watchdog group trying to protect kids on social networking sites gets off to a bad start.
This niche blog catalogs really odd black and white photographs.
Cat superstitions.
Geek Stuff: For the 30-year anniversary of the Sony Walkman, this kid gave up his iPod for a week in exchange for his dad’s walkman. See how that worked out for him.
This is a real book by The Nation that came out the same day as Bible Spice’s. Take a look at some sample pages.
Cool Site of the Week: If you’re having a dispute with someone you can go to Instant Jury, plead both case arguments and a jury of registered members will decide the outcome.
Meet Joseph Wu, the grand master of origami.
I’ve never watched any of those TV fishing shows, but I might start if they would include more outtakes of Bill the Fishing Guy.
Why earwax smells.Animal of the week: Hero rats have been trained to detect unexploded land mines. Once they find an ordinance they stop and wait for food, but they’re too light to actually trigger the mine, so they survive to find more (unlike many mine-sniffing dogs).
In some ways you have to kind of admire this money-doubling scam.
Ten events that helped shape the world.
Follow the directions on this optical illusion. Who do you see?
The Nautilus was the submarine in Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”. Here is a very thorough catalog of Nautilus designs used over the years by filmmakers and others to recreate the vessel.
You can’t spell gold without G-O-D (Jon Stewart clip).
Hump Day musical interlude: Dylan’s Tonight I’ll be Staying Here With You.Tuesday coonhound blogging: Yoga dogs, including this pose by Curtis.
I’ve known this guy for years. Never would have imagined he was capable of murder.
It’s sad that pretty much the only people doing actual journalism is a comedy network and Rolling Stone. Watch Jon Stewart’s interview with Joe Biden.
Now we’re cookin’: Bread shoes.
Stuff you should know: How to ride a pony.
