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Animal of the Week: The olm, a salamander that can live for over 100 years.
Mac got close enough to the trivia answer for the seven points. It's the tiny stonehenge from This is Spinal Tap.
Find out what your age would be on other planets.
Meet the infamous BBC photobomber.
The billion dollar gram.
Trivia (7 Biomes points): What’s it look like to me? Click to embiggen.
Florida panthers may be making a comeback thanks to a breeding program involving mountain lions. But I’m not sure it counts if the new individuals are hybrids, even though panthers and cougars are subspecies. I still applaud the effort.
Another side effect of the BP oil spill is an explosion of sea snot.
The Swinger is a program that takes any song and makes it swing.
Hump day musical interlude:
Albino Monday: Mockingbird on Flickr.
The origin of the domain name "Flickr".
Now we’re cookin’: Bacon-wrapped jalapeno chicken bites.
Bonus albino Monday: Sugar glider (via Hans).
Meet my new octopus. I found her yesterday and her name is "Caramel". Intelligence training will start in about two weeks.
The Moses Miracle of Jindo is a biannual natural phenomenon where a land path is formed between two islands.
Memorable movie quotes, with clips.
See if you can make any sense whatsoever out of the million dollar horse site.
Buy your giant gummy bears here.
Winkler and Noah emailed to explain their puppet show slide show from yesterday. The only touchup on the photos was on the children's mouths. I had it backwards. They aren't puppets that look like children, they're children that look like puppets.
Saturday’s slide show is a collection of creepily realistic puppets that look like children.
See how Earth measures up to other parts of our galaxy at The Size of Our World.
Cool inventions from the past. Like this snowstorm face protector.
This week’s niche blog, believe it or not, is a site devoted to cataloging stories from around the world about buses careening off cliffs and bridges. It’s called Bus Plunge, and it even has a “plunge of the month” feature.
The hands of Angela Merkel. She’s the German Chancellor that Bush the Lesser gave a back rub to.
Meet the Dogons. A million or so members of this tribe live on an isolated plateau in Mali.
And also meet Benjaman Kyle, a pseudonym for a man with retrograde amnesia. Neither he, nor anyone else, has any idea who he really is. And he can’t now get a job without a social security number.
Geek stuff: A guide to internet memes.
Raj sends in this thorough catalog of the wildlife in British Columbia.
iPod Shuffle:
Animal of the Week: The piglet squid. Here's a shot from another angle.
No way would I stand on the glass skydeck of the Sears Tower.
The Republican plan to commemorate ground zero.
Five points for Lisa for getting yesterday's trivia answer first.
Crossing underground bridges of death.
Trivia (5 Biomes points): What’s wrong with this photo?
To follow up on a post from a few days ago, here’s a fascinating record of extreme weight lose/gain that various actors have gone through for their roles.
Through the miracle of streaming Netflix, I can't understand how the series Arrested Developement could have possibly gotten cancelled after just three seasons.
There’s a road that connects mainland China to Hong Kong. But in Hong Kong they drive on the left, and in China they drive on the right. The transition is may soon be achieved by the ingenious “flipper bridge”.
Hump day musical interlude: OK Go has a new video, called White Knuckles. And it features some canine friends (and a goat). After you watch it you can read about how they made the video. This was done in one take, no cuts.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: Another shot of Creole at the dog park. Click to embiggen her fierceness.
Now we’re cookin’: Edible shoes, including, of course, one made out of bacon.
Stuff you should know: You are enormously insignificant.
I’ve seen Back to the Future a bunch of times, but never noticed that the Twin Pines Mall from the beginning of the movie ends up being the Lone Pine Mall at the end, since Marty took out one of Old Man Peabody’s trees while escaping from the 1950’s barn.
Albino Monday: Leucistic pileated woodpecker.
This is the kind of screwball “humor” that results when your idealized version of good times in the USA is based on Happy Days, and your current world view is dominated by Fox News.
Forty-three stunning lighthouses.
Back in 1971, Woody Allen guest-hosted on Johnny Carson’s show. Avedon provides the link to the video. It looks like Public Access.
After 80 years, Picasso’s 34 x 38 foot mural (his largest) is finally on display.
Animals with their tongues sticking out. I'm surprised there isn't a more scientific term for the tongue, unless I'm missing something. [Update]: Forgot, it's the glossa.
The history of the electric car is this week’s Green Thing.
Buy your Martin Loofah King here.
According to an analysis done by the dating site OKCupid, atheist members are more literate than religious users.
I don’t, the case against marriage. And I Do, the case for it. (via Terry)
Pet Corner: An ice cream truck for dogs.
The world’s oldest doodle has been located.
Saturday’s slide show is about what makes you eat more food.
Browse a huge photo collection of galaxy, nebula, star cluster and other space body images.
Geek stuff: Reconsidering Star Wars in light of Episodes I - III. If you happen to be a student of this saga, you’ll find this treatise to be brilliant.
You are the 120 millionth cousin of the platypus, 7 million times removed.
Movie Rating: I’m amazed they ended up making the Mad Max sequels. The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome are a lot of fun. But the original Mad Max is awful. 1.5 starfish out of 5.
iPod Shuffle:
Animal of the Week: Mountain goats. Here are some photos of goats being insane.
Yesterday's trivia answer is the circle of life, from birth to decay.
This list of movie role transformations leaves out Di Nero in ‘Raging Bull’ for some reason. Any others?
There’s an alligator in a pond near Newport, RI. And it looks like it will be there to stay (until it freezes this winter).
