Poor Dog
BBC – New video of tsunami wave sweeping through Chilean town
Categories: Science and Nature
Yep, It’s the Demon Sheep
I keep HEARING about this on Twitter. And this is the origin:
So, I like Carly. Is that bad? (Mea culpa: I haven’t been doing my due diligence)
Categories: Politics
There There, Baby Antelope
Oops. I am retroactively dating this post.
A little busy travelling Friday cat-blogging. From the Daily Mail.
Categories: Science and Nature
I Don’t Think I’ve Ever Seen a Baby Beaver Before
HOW HAVE I GONE ON THIS LONG:
Baby Beaver Kits First Swim
Omg omg omg omg omg. THEY HAVE LITTLE FLAPPY TAAAAALES.
Categories: Science and Nature
There Is Too Much Going On In the World to Coexist With the Day I Had
It’s rare that I’m busy. Like, on-the-outside-of-this-room-busy, but today I have been.
So here: 70 Cutie Baby Animals Bring You a Good Mood
Categories: Science and Nature
And Now For a Happy Hippo
The Times – Hippo swims to freedom after zoo is flooded
Hippopotamuses mate in water, are born in water and spend most of the day wallowing in muddy pools — but there comes a time in every hippo’s life when she simply wants to have dry feet. For Nikica, aged 11, [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
My Mini Copenhagen
First, curtsies to RC2:
New Geography (reprinted from Forbes) – THE GREEN MOVEMENT’S PEOPLE PROBLEM, by Joel Kotkin
The movement needs to break with the deep-seated misanthropy that dominates green politics and has brought it to this woeful state. Its leaders have defined our species as everything from a “cancer” to the “AIDs of the [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
And Your Christian Elephants as Agents of Hindu Karma Story of the Day
Two Headlines
These Telegraph headlines came up back-to-back in Google Reader just now:
No more breast enlargement for girls under 18, Italian government orders
Nine whales beached in Italy in rare accident
Categories: People and Current Events
I Think I'd Rather Get Chased By the Sharks
Telegraph – Australian dives face-first into deadly peanut-sized jellyfish
An Australian man was fighting for his life on Friday after he dived face-first into a venomous jellyfish the size of a peanut in waters off north-east Australia.
Sing it (curtsy (again) Brett McS) everybody!
Categories: Science and Nature
Sniffle XLX
Telegraph – Lucky, the world’s oldest sheep, dies<br/> Lucky, the world’s oldest sheep, has died after succumbing to the effects of a heatwave in southern Australia.
The 23-year-old ewe, recognised by the Guinness Book of Records, died peacefully on her farm at Lake Bolac, 57 miles west of Melbourne, after a short illness. Lucky’s owner [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
And Who's Gonna Burn the Park
National Post – Alberta opposes Parks Canada plan to bring bison back to Banff
Parks Canada wants a home where buffalo can roam. They’ve got their eyes on scenic Banff, Alta., but the Alberta government is cool to the idea. The recently released draft of the Banff National Park Management Plan [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
This Is a Photo of a Great White Shark Nearly Bitten In Half
Sky News – ‘Monster Shark’ Chomps Into Great White
A stunning picture shows a 10ft predator thrashing about with two massive chunks missing on either side of its body, off the Queensland coast. Experts said its rival may be 20ft (about six metres) long, judging by the size of the huge [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Peter Recommends CXVII
This.
Categories: Entertainment
The Swedes are Burning Baby Bunnies to Heat Their Homes
Man, these Scandinavians are just on a roll to wreck their reputations:
Inhabitat – Sweden is Burning Biofuel Made from Bunnies
To cut back on bunny populations and create a greener source of heating fuel for Swedes, city employees round up the rabbits, shoot them, freeze them and then ship them to a heating plant [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
