Oh, great! So we can devastating flooding and wind damage as well as more toxic gunk on our shores. Lovely. Frankly, this terrifies the hell out of me.

Trouble On Horizon If Hurricanes Hit Oil Spill In Gulf

The new estimate for oil pouring into the Gulf is 210,000 gallons per day. The entire seafood production industry in the eastern part of the Louisiana Coast is shut down, as is much of it on the Mississippi and Alabama coasts as well. These are areas where a significant portion of the economy is based on seafood and tourism (another area that is ( Read more... )

Well, front page news this morning is that there are 7 confirmed cases of H1N1/swine flu in Louisiana with 16 more suspected, with 5 of the confirmed cases being the school children in Lafayette that people were talking about last week. They've been closing a bunch of schools, both the ones the infected students go to and in some cases, other ( Read more... )

A Dalek was found in a pond!

Finally, *proof* of the invasion! ;)

There are those moments in every generation . . . the ones that the world looks back on years later and asks 'where were you when . . .' Today was one of those moments ( Read more... )

Ok, so I have never viewed the Discovery channel or their Discovery.com website as a citeable source by any stretch of the imagination, but I did credit them with generally trying to give accurate facts, even if the delivery were slanted in favour of one theory or another. However, this article has completely blown any faith I may have had in ( Read more... )

Friend or Foe? Crows Never Forget a Face, It Seems

Intersting article on the possibility of assisted colonisation as a conservation method

If nothing else, the fourth paragraph on the second page answers my long-held question about the plural of "mongoose".

Teenager finds bat in bra

RIP George Carlin

He will be missed.