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Today’s niche blog is My First Dictionary, by Ross Horsley.
Our Saturday slide show is an exhibit of some strange home designs.
Now we’re cookin’: Macadamia nuts with Spam.
Does anyone else eat a sandwich this way for the exact same reason? I thought I was alone, but maybe it’s pretty common.
See some photographic art by Rodney Smith.
Chairwhore has a ton of unusual chair photos.
Cool Site of the Week: Take a virtual tour of the entire Californian coast.
Geek Stuff: Nerdy furniture.
Play! Pong.
iPod Shuffle:
Animal of the week: Rock-climbing polar bears. It's a twelve-part slide show.
I don’t agree with a lot in this essay on keeping captive animals in zoos, but it is pretty thought-provoking.
Erica Iris Simmons cassette tape art.
Frequent password changes are useless.
238 presidential scholars have determined that Bush is officially the fifth worst president of all time, and number one worstest in the past 28 years.
I’ve been busy, and haven’t really been able to take the time to fully understand the WikiLeaks leak of the Afghanistan War documents. Glennzilla, as usual, sums it all up in a nice little package for us. Jay Rosen calls WikiLeaks the world’s first stateless news organization. And if you’re still interested, here is a very long article about Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks. And this is WikiLeaks.
Two girls are trying to cross a flooded road in Russia, when a passing motorist helps them out, dodging traffic and waterboarders along the way.
Hump day musical interlude:Tuesday coonhound blogging: After three incidents of people waiting at my car to yell at me for leaving my dog in a car with the windows rolled up in 90 degree weather, one of which involved a cop threatening to smash my windows out, I finally made up this sign. With a hybrid you can't hear the engine running the a/c, and while I do appreciate people's concern for an animal's welfare, it has quickly gotten old. Click to embiggen and see Creole standing in the back.
I’m sure nobody reading this has been duped into buying a pair of those “toning” shoes.
Now we’re cookin’: The Noble Pig shows us how to make baked eggs in bread bowls.
Stuff you should know: Tricks to improve your memory.
This looks like Arizona, but I don’t think it is. Pretty amazing view, though.
Albino Monday: Leucistic raccoon, shot (as in with a camera) in Florida (via Hans.) Here's another from Indiana.
Today’s long read is an easily understandable breakdown of how our financial crisis happened.
The Crabby Old Fart has a few things to say about sweatpants with words written on them.
The Louisiana SPCA is trying to help families out of work due to the gulf oil gusher keep their pets. Dogs and cats are being given up in record number because of food and vet bills. You can help out here.
Learn about some journeys on a penny farthing.
Once again the Discovery Channel is running “shark week” at the beginning of August. To celebrate they’ve added something special to their headquarters building.
This week’s Green Thing is a series of aqua-forest aquariums.
Cool off with some photos of lots and lots of snow.
Buy your Wee-goals here.
Our Saturday slide show features twenty beautiful restaurant dishes (via Terry). This one is caviar and a poached egg in a plastic bubble and served with an x-acto knife.
How to make yourself into an 80’s pop star.
A breaching 40-ton right whale lands on a yacht, but everyone’s ok, including the whale.
The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense. Keep clicking for a closer look.
The Language Log discusses Caribou Barbie’s “refudiate” tweet.
Take a look at some of the deep-water species recently discovered in the Atlantic.
Voglreiter auto residence is a house that is shaped like a car.
The Beijing Zoo puts their animals on the menu.
See if you can judge a book by its cover. You’re given ten pairs of books, one with a 5 star Amazon rating and one with a 1 star rating. I got eight out of ten. Two Biomes points for anyone who beats that.
iPod Shuffle:
Animal of the Week: A colony of adelie penguins near Palmer Station, Antarctica is nearing extinction, most likely due to global warming which isn't really happening, of course, because 1% of climate scientists dispute it.
Nobody got yesterday's trivia, but Terry came closest with caribou, since it is animal-made. The answer is an ocean of penguins. Here's a closeup of the landscape.
Meet the world’s first red-fleshed apple.
I’ve always wondered what ever became of Julia Roberts’ brother. He’s doing films like “Sharktopus”. If you want to see him in a great film, rent the Jon Voight movie “Runaway Train”.
Trivia (15 Biomes points): What’s making this landscape pattern? Click for a better look.
"I’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl" is a children’s book you will probably not approve of.
Thanks to Andrew Horton, a window cleaner in NYC, I think I found the best way to clean a window. Mix dish detergent with a little ammonia into cold water, and scrub the window with a camel-hair brush. Then use a squeegee. I tried it and it works great.
Hump day musical interlude: A crystal ball illusion.Relampago del Catatumbo is an everlasting storm that takes place at the mouth of the Catatumbo river in Venezuela. It occurs 150 days a year and lasts ten hours each night.
Stuff you should know: The internet weighs 1,098,868,920,000 pounds (I converted it from kg for you.)
Tuesday coonhound blogging: On the western edge of Narragansett Bay. Even while appreciating the scope of things down there, I still feel so removed from the situation in the gulf. It helps to imagine what it would be like if the same thing were happening right here. Makes me sad and angry. And if you're confused about the word "seepage" that has been discussed recently, John Cole shares your frustration and sheds a little light. Although CNN.com does have a very good video now up explaining what they're talking about. Click the dog.
Now we’re cookin’: A dozen really awful pizzas.
The biggest ripoffs in America.
Albino Monday: Play! Puki, attack of the albino vampire freaks.
You can stop people from stealing this bicycle by wrapping it around a lamp post.
A sea lion steals Jack’s fish.
Michelle Philpots lives a real life groundhog day existence. Robbed of her short-term memory in an accident, she lives the same 24-hour period over and over.
It’s human nature to try to find meaning in the things around us. Sometimes, there is no meaning in stuff. Like in meaningless metaphors.
For this week’s Green Thing, search the web with Forestle and save a portion of the rainforest. With each click the advertising income is donated to the Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre Program.
"John Hancock: Why did everyone write so small? Now I look like a jerk."
Morford: The great Dick Cheney empathy test.
Today’s slide show is a collection of funny signs from the Huffington Post. I realize that funny signs are so 2004, but I like the Huffington Post.
Know your pasta shapes with the help of the National Pasta Association.
This week’s niche blog is a librarian’s guide to etiquette.
You don’t keep a mummified baby around the house for a century and give it pet dried fish to play with. It’s just creepy.
The Big Picture has some very cool photos of Saturn at equinox.
I have absolutely no idea who this woman is, so here’s her Wiki page. Apparently the Economist once called her a “scintillating wordsmith”, so there’s something anyway.
Play!: Indestructo Tank.
Geek stuff: Helvetica cookie cutters.
iPod Shuffle:
This is how deep the Mariana Trench is. Click the graphic.
T. gets the trivia question again. A Muslim can pray in any direction only in the Ka'aba itself.
Meet Alicia Keys’ skeletal stilettos.
Hot ways to take a stand this summer.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: After our 5:30 am run, which happens on those rare days when I don't say "yea, right", and go back to bed for an hour. Click it.
Now we’re cookin’: An FSM with 100% edible googly eyes.
Bix has a post up about the deepwater horizon rig. The well it was pumping would have supplied the U.S. with oil for five days.
This isn’t a painting. It’s an actual photo of the sun.
Why dim bulb Sarah Palin is actually a Sith lord.
I became a new uncle yesterday. Congrats Seth and Kara.
