Biomes Blog

Entry #3666: Save the Piñata

Don’t take a selfie with a shark regardless of how dead it looks.

Stop pinata abuse.

Geek stuff: The maths of Star Trek: The red shirt question.

Entry #3665: Ruby T-Shirts

To raise money for an official Biomes mascot costume (an octopus of course), Graham has designed a t-shirt based on my old octopus "Ruby". We're selling it through Teespring and we need to reach our goal of 200 shirts sold or we get nothing. So I'm asking everyone to share this link to purchase a shirt.

There's a link in the shirt description to the NOVA episode Ruby and I were on. I think Graham did a nice job with the shirt:

Entry #3664: Microburgers

Watch a half-hour-long montage of famous scientists, including 16 Nobel prize winners, talking about God.

This is a microscopic study of a cheeseburger.

Entry #3663: Chess set

Bonsai styles, shapes and forms explained.

Taxidermied mice chess set.

Entry #3662: Gourmet Mouse Traps

Today’s long read is GQ’s piece on Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden, called The Man Who Knows Too Much. If you’ve been confused about this whole mess, this should clear things up a bit.

Gourmet mouse traps. This one’s baited with lasagna.

Entry #3661: 175 Hours

Below is a scene that was cut from the movie Best in Show. It's one of the greatest outtakes I've ever seen.

Entry #3660: He's An Idiot

Seriously Matt? The guy is a freakin’ imbecile. And the comments are hysterical.

Entry #3659: Common Social Morays

Possibly the best definition of acyrologia ever.

Fox News’ brainwashing of angry old white men.

Sad site of the day: Dimly Lit Meals for One.

Entry #3658: Lose the Core

FBI uncovers plot to just sit back and enjoy collapse of United States.

Amazingly, I find myself aligned with republicans on an issue. But for vastly different reasons (their’s involves crazy conspiracy theories will mine is based on common sense). I’d like to see Common Core disappear quickly and forever. Here’s a bit of rambling I wrote a while back explaining my motivation.

Entry 3657: Nailed It

I saw it on Pinterest so I did it myself…and nailed it!

Toddlers who cannot yet read see an arrow in the Federal Express logo.

Entry #3656: Xtian Phantasms

Morford: Sympathy for the Christian Bigot.

Hump day musical interlude: Traffic at Meskel Square in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Watch the pedestrians. It may be counterintuitive, and I could be way off base with this one, but I think the secret to this madness working is the complete absence of road rage.

Entry #3655: Searching for Their Table

Entry #3654: Dazzle Camo

A day in the life of a crab net.

WWI was 100 years ago. This photo essay (the first in an upcoming ten part series) in The Atlantic is amazing. Here’s the USS Nebraska in what was known as “dazzle camouflage”.

Entry #3653: Small Stone Bridges

Cool site of the week: There’s this interactive timeline correlating human evolution and climate changes.

Twenty photos of small stone bridges.

Entry #3652: Backsplash

Study looks at best way to minimize backsplash while peeing.

I went through all 100 of Jordan Hoffman’s picks for the best sci-fi movies ever made. My choice for the number one slot is seventy-first on his list: James Caan’s Rollerball.