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Tuesday coonhound blogging: Memorial Day with the mammals.
NASA has released fourteen unpublished photos on Flickr. I saw John Glenn’s Murcury capsule (Friendship 7) at the Smithsonian a few years back, and I couldn’t believe how small the thing was.
“Rapture” is a pretty awesome timelapse video by Tom Lowe.
Albino Monday: A white turbot (it’s a type of flatfish) that lives in a London aquarium.
Here’s a good overview of a study determining what anyone with a brain already knows. There is not only no such thing as the “liberal media”, the mainstream press is actually horribly biased towards the right.
William Rugen catalogued everything he ate in 2010. And photographed it.
Buy your rapture veteran tee shirt here.
This week’s Green Thing is the Good Guide, where you can find out how green, ethical and healthy various products are based on scientific ratings.
Morford: The great Barack Obama conundrum.
Sleep is awesome! I especially like the idea of “paradoxical intention”.
Meet the eight most romantic creatures in the animal world.
Bees solve complex problems faster than supercomputers. They can immediately solve the “traveling salesman problem” that can even stump advanced computers.
Awesome motorcycle helmets (and ping pong paddles, for some reason). [Update: Motorcycle link disabled by request.]
iPod Shuffle:
Animal of the week: Horses. I was sure some of these had to be paintings, but apparently they’re not.
Meet Ston, the great wall of Croatia. It’s the longest fortified wall in Europe.
Want to see the best monster movies? The movie moron has the list, and if you haven’t seen The Host, you should.
I'm two days late, but happy 70th to Dylan.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: Click to embiggen.
How do you spell sociopath? G-O-P.
Learn about the paolithic paintings of the Chauvet Cave, the oldest known cave paintings found so far.
Stuff you should know: How to do a snail hunt.
Han’s Albino Monday: Leucistic redpoll, and a normal colored one.
Timewaster of the week: Moustachio, a short live-action animation featuring one guy’s mustache.
Top ten afterlife movies.
This week’s Green Thing is China’s ecological silicon valley slide show.
Now we’re cookin’: Mexican shrimp burgers. These were really good on the grill, but I recommend mixing the recipe with half a pound of ground beef or turkey before making the patties. Also, at least double the amount of fresh cilantro he recipe calls for.
How Harold Camping marketed the Rapture. Like everything else Religious/Fox News related, this type of grifting can only happen when there are plenty of gullible people who want so badly to believe the fantasy. The rapturites may be amusing to make fun of, but the reality is that this episode shows the depressingly simplistic, medieval and superstitious mindset still so prevalent among humans, despite it being 2011. Thank the FSM there seems to be a slowly growing number of people like this guy around.
Today’s rapture index.
Rapture FAQ for students.
If you're concerned about what will happen to your pets after you've risen today, you can hire the atheists who run Eternal Earth-bound Pets to care for them for only $135.00.
Harold Camping rapture excuse bingo card. Play along and cross off as many excuses as possible on May 22nd.
Animal of the week: The socially awkward penguin.
Meet the ten most congested cities in America. I’m not being a DFH here, but I can’t imagine why anyone who deals with this regularly doesn’t own a hybrid. According to this study (pdf), 3.9 billion gallons of fuel a year is wasted in traffic. A hybrid’s engine turns off when you come to a stop, or even if you’re just creeping along.
Go For Launch! is a space shuttle time lapse movie that lasts a little under four minutes, but covers six weeks of launch preparation.
Morford: Hi! In three days you will all be dead.
Hump day musical interlude: You’re the One That I Want (via Jonathan). Embed is disabled, so watch here.
Geek stuff: In praise of the sci-fi corridor is a photo essay on those long spacey hallways you see in almost all science fiction films.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: This is what happens when you fall asleep under a cherry tree in May.
The last post, by blogger Derek Miller, who died of cancer on May 4 (Star Wars Day!) at the age of 41.
Truths for mature humans.
