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

…Is courtesy of RC2:

Wheat & Weeds – A Plague of …Elephants?

Categories: Science and Nature

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