Cassini has sent home some holiday snaps from Saturn. Wish I was there.

When Cats Attack

The latest Zero Punctuation, a review of Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X., made me laugh my bum off.

Richard Glover on the Revenge of the word nerds: "The language police have no interest in the content of what is being said; they don't even have much interest in ( Read more... )

"Then there were the martens, which look a bit like weasels only prettier. They were grey with a white front, huge eyes and a big bushy tail. There was one that used to slide open the window, get inside my storeroom and head for the saucepan which had my bread inside wrapped up in a cloth. This marten would take off the saucepan lid, unwrap the ( Read more... )

Spring cleaning, I found two clippings from Discover which, put together, made me smile. The first: scientists theorise that human beings lost most of our body hair in order to get rid of pests like fleas and ticks. The second: other scientists use the appearance of the body louse to work out when human beings first wore clothing. lol

"But my childhood love of the natural world had forearmed me with a ready enthusiasm for when I finally came face to face with the honey badger in the wild. Actually, getting face to face with a honey badger is surprisingly difficult. They are blessed with the unique and, I should imagine, bloody surprising ability, if you've just caught one by the ( Read more... )

danteconvis's TOP TEN "DOCTOR-IN-AGONY" SCENES made me lol and lol.

Inside The Inboxes of 15 Fictional Villains

Divers discover psychedelic bouncing fish with legs

All time coolest thing ever: WETA make amputee a functioning mermaid's tail.

Rei Hamon. Kauri gum: the simple art of enhancing its beauty.
Clare Kipps. Sold for a song: a study of an Arabian mongoose.
H. de Vere Stacpoole. The Blue Lagoon.
Banana Yoshimoto. Kitchen.

( Books bought and borrowed )

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to his opinion as Fermi.
- Louis Alvarez

There once was a brainy baboon,
Who always breathed down a bassoon,
For he said, "It appears
That in billions of years
I shall certainly hit on a tune."
- Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonIn these days, a man who says a ( Read more... )

Phil Drabble. A Weasel in my Meatsafe.
Jody Gehrman. Tart.
Naduki Koujima. Great Place High School.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note, issues 1-6.
V.S. Ramachandran. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, vol 8.

( Books bought and borrowed )

Christine Pevitt Algrant. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France.
Pierre Bayard. How to talk about books you haven't read.
Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour.
Kiriko Nananan. Blue.
Francine Patterson and Eugene Linden. The Education of Koko.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, volumes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Diane Yapko. ( Read more... )

A study has found that "A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home."

In other science news, Crohn's disease (I may have a very mild case of this) could be associated with E. coli who have taken on board nasty genes from much worse ( Read more... )