Usually I try to keep my daftest Photoshop fantasies restricted to the world of Tumblr, but I thought some of you might enjoy this one.

In a nutshell, the latest Star Trek movie stars none other than my beloved Mr Cumberbatch as its villain. A chance glance at its poster therefore led to me making the following piece of otter silliness:


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Viewers, you catch me at a moment of great performance anxiety. You see, I really ought to do SOMETHING to follow up Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch and hopefully capitalize on its unexpected success before it passes unceremoniously into the wastelands of internet history, but what should it be ( Read more... )

Before I left for work this morning, I posted a photo-set on Tumblr called Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch. Too flimsy to be worth posting on Livejournal, I thought: just the sort of quick visual joke that Tumblr was made for. Nonetheless, I imagined that a few people would be amused. Enough to justify the time it took me to match up the ( Read more... )

Scandal in the animal kingdom today, because it turns out that the latest winner of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year award was a fake: the wolf is actually an experienced model. I suppose the game was up when the wolf was spotted falling out of Bungalow 8 with Kate Moss and Pixie Geldof one too many times. These celebs never learn ( Read more... )

Did you have a go at the animal names quiz yesterday?

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The animal kingdom can be a rough place to be, and we human beings sometimes make it even tougher. And I'm not talking ecologically but linguistically.

You see, for every Splendid Climbing Mouse, Charming Thicket Rat or Pleasing Fungus Beetle out there, there are a bunch of despondent creatures labouring under some rather less chirpy names. In ( Read more... )

Trivia fact of the day:
I have just found out about the existence of the Cave of the Crystals in Naica, Mexico. What a flabbergasting place! I can't get over the fact that those pictures are really real, and not just tiny pictures of explorers photoshopped onto a big picture of a crystal paperweight for a laugh. If I saw it on Star Trek, I'd think ( Read more... )

Hello, and welcome to Torchwood Slightly-Drunkblogging. This new experimental approach is brought to you by three key facts: the fact that I went out drinking this evening (hic!), the fact that I have to drink a pint of water before bedtime to sober up, and the fact that I might as well listen to Torchwood while doing so. So here we go, and I ( Read more... )

Did you have a go at the silly bird names quiz yesterday?

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It's quiz time, viewers, and this week your specialist subject is Birds With Naughty Names. This is because I recently chanced across some wonderful ornithological nomenclature in various books and am now keen to promote it to anyone who will listen. After all, why be content with a Common Shag when you could have a Fulvous-Chinned Nunlet or a ( Read more... )