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Animal of the Week: Bubble-sniffing moles. Here's a gallery of starnose moles.
Play! Ant City. Hold down the mouse to focus the beam on your magnifying glass. I found a tanker truck and pretty much destroyed the city.
Today’s long read: The Great Wealth Transfer. Krugman writing in Rolling Stone.
Oh, this is just great. Some guy has invented a cell phone gun.
Science defends the afternoon nap. Yay for science.
Oh, this is just too funny. Instead of helping the old woman across the street, this idiot in the convertible honks his horn and revs his engine. The woman starts across the road and whacks the guy’s bumper with her handbad, nearly knocking him out when the airbag explodes. Jerk.
Ten myths, and ten truths, about atheism.
Here’s a blog about Indian food recipes called Indian Food Recipes. Now that I’m back in cooking mode, I’ll be trying out some of these.
100 critically endangered species. I think that first one is already gone.
After you’ve constructed your new dam that floods hundreds of acres of woodland, you can send in the Triton Sawfish to harvest the trees. Also will come in handy around 2020 throughout coastal regions as long as republicans retain power.
Speaking of which, Gore wins best Doc.
Apparently professional psychologists aren’t happy that this analysis of the ten official Rorshach Test inkblots is available online. Oh, well. Check it out. It’s pretty interesting.
Error 404: You need some fresh air.
Search Results: Someone found the Biomes Blog by googling “clam jerky”. It brought them here.
Albino Monday: Rhea.
This week's water tower is found in Caseville, MI.
Gaaa!! Scary, floating, fat, round conservative heads.
Morford: Are Humans Totally Stupid?
I want a live bunny letter opener.
Facial hair and presidential elections.
Debunking a spitting image. He makes the point that it wasn’t until around 1980 that the fake stories about Vietnam vets being spit on upon their return starting popping up, but doesn’t make the Rambo connection.
“It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me?” --Johnny Rambo, a guy who chickenhawk republicans think was a real person.
There’s a major problem with this political cartoon. It’s very easy to spot so it’s only worth 1 Biomes point.
Rolling Stone: Run, Al, Run.
Movie Rating: Black Dahlia
Based on a true unsolved L.A. murder. The leads were very good (Josh Hartnett making up for his horrible performance in "Pearl Harbor") but I was thoroughly confused throughout the story trying to piece all the characters relationship to each other together. Although the movie was beautifully shot, it's a Brian De Palma film so you'll need a strong stomach to get through some scenes. 3.2 starfish out of 5.
Indonesian “hobbits” are now considered to be a new species of human.
According to polls, flightsuit boy is a bigger villain than Satan.
I should just rename this site "Violet's Blog". She got us close to 3000 hits again yesterday.
"I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it." --Steven Wright
Watch a preview for Walmart- The High Cost of Low Price.
Dept. of Educashun: Comparative planetary and stellar sizes.
North American sea glass association.
Scientific vs Creationist methodology made simple.
Play! Spikey’s Bounce Around.
Animal of the Week: Superlions.
Marooned on an island, this group of lions should have died out. Instead, in an evolutionary twist, they've learned to swim and became strong enough to tackle their only prey... giant buffalo.
When cats take over the world.
Suits of armor for cats and mice.
Welcome to Project Tiger.
Here’s a photo of a lion wearing a wig.
Peace Train, by Cat Stevens, inspired this great slide show on the Tehran they won't show you on the propaganda news channels (ie: all of them), lest it interfere with flightsuit boy's continued obsession with going down in history as a brave war president, despite the fact that he's a cowardly awol loser who has failed at every endeavor he ever pursued and is surrounded by a cabal of insane criminals using fearmongering of the stupid people (terrists gonna getcha) to wage fake wars to empty our treasury in order to line the pockets of their corporate political contributors.
Here’s The Boy’s demo reel, which is a sampling of some of the animations and special effects Graham’s been working on.
If you read the Astoria Letters I linked to the other day (if not, they’re here), the blogger posts a really great follow-up. A high school teacher in Florida used the post in his class and posted audio of the letters his students wrote in reply to the letter writer.
Today’s Long Read: Rolling Stone on Barack Obama.
The right-wing noise machine, by Tom Tomorrow.
The table of political interference in science.
The top 100 wonders of the world.
Anti-terrorism dolphins.
Dept. of Educashun: Presidential assasination attempts.
This week's water tower is found in Eaton Rapids, MI.
Great bumper sticker slogans. This one’s my favorite:
“Cover me, I’m changing lanes.”
Stuff You Should Know: How to make cheese.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Ohmygodhesdumberthanbush) gives his theory of past CO2 levels in the atmosphere on the house floor. Dinosaur flatulence.
Thanks to this educational website I’ve learned that the earth does not rotate, nor does it orbit the sun.
This week's Marine Life Series on DailyKos is up. It's about smooth dogfish sharks. With video!
Whoever image searched “Nutria” at 9:22 last night was the Biomes Blog’s 200,000th visitor.
Watch Barack on Conan. The guy's a freakin' rock star, which would be a nice change after putting up with eight years with an idiot in charge.
Too bad I didn’t catch this Wednesday since you’ve now lost your chance to give your valentine an anatomically correct chocolate heart.
This is Fox News' answer to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Put aside your political leanings for a minute and just judge this on its comedic value. Did you laugh? I didn't think so.
Nancy Pelosi's office has started a blog, and it looks pretty good.
That photo of the wedding of Marine Sergeant Ty Ziegel is all over the net, here is the wedding album, and this is the story. Bush and everyone in this administration are criminally responsible for these needless deaths and injuries.
Timewaster of the Week: Line Rider. My guy keeps crashing.
Wiki on Valentine's Day.
Rank the Senators. Looking good for Dems so far. Lieberman, not so much. How much of a loser do you have to be to be ranked behind Alaska’s Ted “Tubes” Stevens?
Dow Chemical has put together a very cool interactive periodic table of elements.
Ze Frank on Valentine's Day.
Catch flies with a pair of chopsticks.
This week's recipe is Cupid's Eggplant Parmesan, in the extended post below. This will take you a while to make, but it will be worth it. The key ingredient is the Japanese bread crumbs, called Panko. I used to have trouble finding this but now my local market carries it.
The art of Ernst Haeckel.
Here’s a 2,000 year-old Greek computer. And the “Baghdad Battery” is just as old.
Apparently science-hating evangelicals are just as clueless in Kenya as they are here.
Play! Pong.
The more we study dolphins the brighter they seem to be.
Happy Birthday Charles Darwin.
University of Adelaide's Darwin page.
Today's long read: Origin of the Species.
Follow the voyage of the H.M.S Beagle.
Understanding natural selection.
When a house cat kills a mouse and someone says "Hey, it's just the survival of the fittest!", you can straighten them out by pointing them here. Then say "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." You can find more Inigo Montoya quotes at the Princess Bride soundboard.
This week's water tower is found in Charlotte, MI.
New species of mollusks found in the Philippines (thanks David).
“No End In Sight” is a new documentary to watch for. It focuses on the lies our criminal-in-chief used to dupe the rubes into supporting an illegal war.
If you live, or have ever lived, below or above someone in an apartment, you’ll appreciate the humor in the astoria notes.
Cool Site of the Week: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, French, German, Italian, Arabic and Indonesian audio words of the day.
Adopt a polar bear. On the right we see the extremely rare polarbiger hybrid.
Here’s a pilot list of proposed questions, with answers, for the newest citizenship test given to naturalized immigrants.
Pet Corner: This is nice. Depending on the brand, your pet's food may contain euthanized and rendered dogs and cats, among other lovely stuff.
The psychology behind the worst possible president.
Yesterday was another 1000-plus hits day, riding mainly on the back of Violet the octopus (2 posts down). I’m gonna have to start charging that cephalopod for bandwidth. And as if you haven’t had enough of Violet, this week’s Marine Life Series on DKos is up.
"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." --Abraham Lincoln, warning us about neo-cons.
And the award for Worst Singing Ever, In a Stadium goes to...
Here’s a fascinating article about Japanese fugu chefs.
Yesterday’s post about Violet the octopus racked up 3,143 hits and counting. I think that’s a record for this humble little blog.
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