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Albino Monday: Porcupine.
Wanna bet this bizarre-looking “mystery beast” turns out to be a decomposing wolverine?
I don’t know if you saw the playable pac-man Google logo, but it was up for one day last Friday and cost 4.82 million hours of work productivity. (I played with it for about three minutes.)
Christian groups say that biblical armageddon must be taught alongside global warming.
Iggy Pop has retired from stage diving after a Carnegie Hall audience failed to catch him.
Morford: SPF 100 will melt your face off.
If you’re pregnant, you can buy your morning chicness bags here.
Here are some stylish products for kids with broken bones. The boy and I have gone through a combined 65 years without a single broken bone. Is this unusual?
This week’s Green Thing is a diagram showing the environmental impact of cell phones.
You’ve just dropped food on the floor. Do you eat it? Consult this guide to find out.
Today’s slide show is a series called “Empty L.A.”, photos of Los Angeles streets devoid of cars or people. Click the image to move to the next one.
Architectural eyesore of the month.
This week’s niche blog is Men with Meat Names, such as Sandy Berger and Wally Lamb.
Buy a cell phone for your dog here.
Animal photos that will make you smile.
I think the issue of unpaid internships should be monitored, but I also think the concern is overblown a bit. As a teen I did countless volunteer internships with everyone from university professors to aquaculture farmers, and they gave me the skills I needed when I struck out on my own. The experience was invaluable and happened at a time when I really didn’t need to think about major financial issues since I was still a minor.
David Cross explains the world’s oldest game of “Telephone”.
iPod Shuffle:
Animal of the week: The meerkat.
Take a look at Porcupine Mountains Waterfall.
Arcades in Japan. Most video arcades were (are there still arcades around?) several stories tall, with each floor dedicated to a particular game type.
Meet the world’s bravest mouse.
John Cole explains why I like Macs.
Trivia (16 biomes points, which can be divided up): Name all of the eight products on this wedding cake.
Why Sarah Palin talks like a child.
You can read the last words spoken by all 449 Texas inmates who were put to death since 1982.
Taipei has a restaurant called the Toilet Bowl. You won’t believe it.
If you’ve ever tried your hand at Tetris, you’ll find this guy absolutely amazing.
Tuesday Coonhound Blogging: I'll hopefully get some new Creole pictures taken soon.
Now we’re cookin’: Seriously, this taco holder is a great idea, except that I don’t think it can go into an oven, which is really where the problems start.
Stuff you should know: What’s inside a cup of coffee.
Watch this Oklahoma City hailstorm. Hang on for the first minute or so because it gets pretty crazy. There’s a bunch of these out there from the May 16th storm, but this one is the best.
Albino Monday: Blue-eyed white alligator.
Today’s long read is How He Got There, an online book that examines how an idiot like Bush actually made it to the White House. I’ve read the whole thing and the lengths our conservative press will go to take down a liberal is pretty amazing.
Some of these hyper-realist sculptures are pretty creepy.
This week’s Green Thing is the Nissan land glider.
Reader Hans sends in this great story about the retirement of a blind sled dog named Isobel.
Morford: Welcome, nuclear terrorist supernuns!
Buy your truth shirt here.
Ten kid actors who beat the odds and turned out to be pretty normal.
Today’s slide show is of the winners of the 2007 “small world” microphotography contest (click on “slide show” to view).
My interview with the Reef Tank.
Eight incredible piers.
The Impossible Cool is a niche blog that collects black and white photographs of famous people doing ordinary things.
A brief history of pretty much everything.Beautiful photos of the aurora.
Kevin Costner has some “Ocean Therapy” machines that separate oil from water and is donating some to help clean up the gulf spill.
Play! Friends always stick together. My best is 2450.
Cool Site of the Week: Artistic oil, propane and water tanks.
iPod Shuffle:
Animal of the Week: A baby pygmy hippo.
When you wonder why the world is in the state it’s in, consider for a second that one in five adults believe aliens live on earth disguised as humans.
Bible Botany. All the plants found in the bible.Somehow thirty years have passed since Mount St. Helens erupted. I was a sophomore in high school. National Geographic has a story about how the flora and fauna have returned since then.
Meet the Great Atlantic Garbage Patch.
Look at this photo taken directly above a herd of camels. The things you assume are camels are just their shadows.
The Failblog catches a winner with this returned field trip permission slip.
Hump day musical interlude:Tuesday coonhound blogging: I came across this old photo of Creole at the graveyard. And animal planet has a short video about the six breeds of coonhounds.
If Jesus returned as Glenn Beck.
Now we’re cookin’: Canned unicorn meat.
Here’s how a TED (turtle excluder device) works.
Stuff you should know: How to buy gifts for an old man.
Albino Monday: Double-crested cormorant (via Hans).
Blue Moon, Blue Earth is a beautiful shot, and was one of Earth Science’s pictures of the day.
The Vietnamese man who had 22-foot-long hair has died. It’s the longest hair on record.
Newsweek has a whole article about why we should teach evolution to children. They do make some pretty good arguments, but it’s really quite simple: We shouldn’t replace science with fairy tales.
This is Lewis Black at his best.Toilet training pigs saves water and prevents pollution, and is this week’s Green Thing.
Ten people responsible for the current financial crisis. You can probably guess who’s number one.
Buy your pessimist’s mug here.
So, I'm watching the documentary "Shut Up and Sing" last night, and the band is reading a blog post about themselves. The blog they were reading was written by an early wingnut commenter here. I couldn't finish the movie because the conservative idiocy of that whole episode was too much to handle. No rating.
Geek Stuff: Geeky license plates. I don’t get half of these.
iPod Shuffle:
Animal of the Week: The African sea eagle.
I love Ebert as a realist and skeptic, but I still want to see Iron Man 2.
The answer to yesterday's trivia question was Paris viewed from the Eiffel Tower. Derryl got it right, and is now at 101 Biomes points. Put a comment up as to where you want me to send your winning $25 donation. It can go to any non-religious charity or to any non-Republican political candidate. Email me the details. Derryl goes back to zero, but everyone else keeps their points. "Queen" is now closest with 81 points.
Meet the aboriginal Sentinelese, inhabitants of the Andaman Islands and the most socially isolated people on earth. (Thanks Tony)
I forgot to post yesterday's weekly music video.
Trivia (12 Biomes points): What’s this a photo of and from what point of view? (click to embiggen).
MSNBC picked up the story of my new chambered nautilus.
The real reason humans kiss is to spread germs and develop an immunity to illness, especially to build a female’s defenses against pathogens that might harm an infant.
Natural ice sculptures carved by polar seas and wind.