Attention Britons! Your Bike Week begins this weekend!

Sustrans for pathway resources.

Tools for fundraising.

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Interestingly, there seems to be a meme regarding komodo dragons afoot:

1. A Chron editor is bitten

2. Plenty of commentary.

3. Meanwhile, the Guardian casts the dragons as unmitigated evil personified.

1. Mountain People News:
1.1 Austria seeks to 'rescue image' ... c'mon, where do they expect all the closet pedophiles with dungeon construction skills to go? Belgium? Oh.

1.2 In another streak of madness, the 102 year old Albert Hoffman is confirmed dead. Ok, you know what has to be said, three, two, one..."What a long strange trip it's been ( Read more... )

1. IRAQ: "Curveball" revealed.

2. IRAQ: waste, fraud, & abuse with military contracts. Apparently only half their contract officers are actually certified to do their work.

3. X-Files: Scratch one Chupacabra, apparently it's a bald coyote.

4. Climate Change: 110 Mayors meet in Seattle. Interesting and exciting political rumble. Of course Bush ( Read more... )

1. Whoa! Parthenogenic sharks! Biology is weird.

1.1 EDIT: Plus from the Sci-Fi File - Radiation-metabolising fungi

What was that theory called, pansporia? My goodness, if something as complex as fungi can thrive on that, anything is possible through space.

2. More poor behaviour by UN peacekeepers in the Congo...rearmament, for gold ( Read more... )

1. California Connected covered some significant rural poverty, especially amongst the Central Valley's fruitpickers.

2. Planet Earth - less David Attenborough, more Sigourney Weaver, with some truly outstanding photography. Still, any regret I felt about lacking HD-TV quickly evaporated when the show focussed on hunting sea crateskraites*. Ugh ( Read more... )

1. My fair city again leads the nation - the City Supervisors vote to ban petroleum-based plastic bags from large groceries and pharmacies - small businesses are exempt.

Well, I'm glad I bought my most-excellent* nylon Chicobag - I should really see if they have any publically-traded stock!
Note to UK friends: Ask Geneva to see her's. If you want ( Read more... )

At this rate of TOADZILLA evolution, Australia will also breed the awesome HYPNOTOAD!

TOADZILLA weighs in at just under 2lbs. and is 8cm in length, and has poison clusters abundant. I imagine it eats cats regularly, one wonders if it at least offers its services by eating other cane toads.

Quick fetch the spears and rifles!

Colossal squid! - at least 450kg and 10m long.

Neat! Alas, I can't get it to work on my phone, just yet.

I should join the bandwagon of resolutions, 2006 reviews, and all that ... but frankly, the low-grade fever and allergic nose have me focused less on these issues as a collection of information from my recent Amboseli trip - including ringing in the new year there.

Photos to follow uploading later this month...

Amboseli Animal Count:
Mammals: ( Read more... )