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Meet Fenway, also known as undisputed evidence that otters are the cutest thing ever:


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Sea Otter Enrichment at the Shedd Aquarium:



Otters have fun and eat tasty snacks in return for having blood samples drawn for research (not shown in video). They apparently also get a cheesy soundtrack.

Leucistic otters born at Blue Planet Aquarium. Like any other otter, minus pigment ( Read more... )

I'd completely forgotten about the existence of the glass harp until I was reminded via DRB. This instrument used to completely fascinate me as a child.

Rober Tiso plays Beethoven's 5th on musical glasses:

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His YouTube channel is worth checking out hereThe Glass Duo plays a different type of harp, tuned by grinding the goblets rather than ( Read more... )

While I've been procrastinating from job hunting, dealing with StudyLink and all those useful yet annoying things, I've been wasting entirely too much time looking up epic pre-1950 dance videos on YouTube:

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Frantic lindy hop with some haphazard flinging of bodies.

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The Nicholas Brothers. It is easy to see why they were once upon a time very ( Read more... )

At the moment, I have nothing much to say. At least nothing that can't be expressed in very short sentences, which is what Twitter is for.

Instead, I bring you links to videos 'n shit:

• Dancing Walrus!
  
• Walrus playing the toy saxophone! I can think of few things more ridiculous. (Both via highverbalfan.)
  
• A list of common misconceptions. No, hair does not ( Read more... )

Sarah Palin images - half failblog, half lolcat.

Awesome stop-motion chess. I particularly like the shark.

Celebirty lookalikes. Is Cindy McCain the Borg queen ( Read more... )

As I'm sure I've mentioned before, but I don't have an awful lot to do at work these days. So here's a list of (mostly) worksafe, frequently updated sites I often visit while killing time at work:

• Evil Mad Scientist for all your mad science needs. Ok, most of it isn't terribly mad and some of it is painfully nerdy. But there's a fair proportion ( Read more... )

Bet that got your attention.

This way for sock monkey! The artist claims it is anatomically correct, but I don't know if there is anything correct (or anything right) about it.

Do I need to mention it is NSFW?

It was pointed out that I really ought to post this where jwm can see.

..is not a sexually transmitted disease, despite what people might think after listening to Monty Python's The Medical Love Song. Well, unless it is caused by syphilis. Which I shouldn't need to point out that I don't have. This provides a better overview ( Read more... )