The Dodo Blog.
Pet corner: Watch a dog teach a puppy how to climb down stairs.
In An Atheist Manifesto, Sam Harris argues that belief in God, and appeasement of religious extremists of all faiths by moderates has been, and continues to be, the greatest threat to world peace.
Now we’re cookin’: The “toad in the hole” looks like an awesome breakfast.
Support the sea turtle restoration project
Gangnam Style is so 2012, but I can’t even imagine the amount of work the person who created this animated flipbook version of the video must have gone through.
The Times has a nice article on Neil deGrasse Tyson, the guy who introduced the NOVA segment I was on a couple of years ago.
Who could have predicted that Big Business would eventually want a piece of Star Wars Day?
Dubai has the most awesome police cars.
When you put a sign up on a freeway, people will read it until somebody takes it down. Instructions from the Freeway Blogger.
Narcissistron: The transformer who changes into himself.
Pet Corner: A cat gets caught barking by a human and resumes meowing.
Considered to be one of the worst movies ever made, the 1975 flick “The Giant Spider Invasion” features a mother spider that has a hairy volkswagen for a body with passengers holding the huge legs out the windows.
This week’s niche blog is about the above site, called Plan 9 Crunch: All About Cult Films. Most of the entries are accompanied by amusing trailers for the actual movies.
A lost 1967 Star Trek screenplay that was written especially for Milton Berle, and killed off by its writer, has resurfaced after 45 years.
Why the mantis shrimp is our new favorite animal.
Eggs breaking in slow motion.
Parrots have personal musical tastes.
Today’s niche blog is Shorpy, a huge archive of historical photographs dating back to the Civil War.
The problem with time machines.
This week my Marine Life Series on Daily Kos is about shame-faced crabs.
America: The best country in the world at being last. How can we change that?
27% of Americans think it’s too easy to vote. And there is that magic number again.
The postal service is not a federal agency. It does not cost taxpayers a dollar. It loses money only because Congress mandates that it do so. What it is is a miracle of high technology and human touch. It's what binds us together as a country. Below is a log post office in Franklin, Ohio.
Poor, cute bunnies likely to get eaten when the snow melts early.
Ryan Lochte on Fox 29. Best interview ever (watch to the end).
“A Sentence Worse than Death” is an essay by William Blake, who has been held in solitary confinement for the past 26 years.
Of course I have an unusual use for my Prius. Transporting sharks, nets and diving equipment. Mucking around in salt marshes and hopping in for the ride home. But for seven years I've always kept a big area rug in the back, always with the back seats folded down. For some reason, about a year ago, I removed the rug and never put it back. Bad move. With the back seats down, every splash and spill of saltwater flowed down the back of the seats and right into the guts of the car. So now I'm left with this:
Water in the wheel well, a destroyed hybrid battery and possibly the computer console, and rusted bolts throughout the compartment. It's like seeing a friend on the operating table with his insides layed out beside him.
Assuming the computer isn't wrecked as well, the damage is just under $5,000. I'll be keeping it in storage as a staff car some day, fixing it then instead of buying a new one. In the meantime I have me one of these in blue, purchased last night.
I won't remove the rug this time. Although I did get 8 years and 180,000 miles out of the old girl.
