Between starting my Gender Through Comic Books class and running this month's book club (in an amusing convergence, Fun Home and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel), I'm pretty bushed. Many thanks, chronic fatigue! Today's a day for catching up on TV/knitting, gaming, and general faffing around, I think.

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Giant mysterious eyeball found on Florida Beach. That's quite some baby blue.

I need to buy plane tickets in the next couple of days (really, I should've done it weeks ago), but I'm having trouble deciding whether or not to be in Jersey City for Thanksgiving or not. Logistically speaking it would be much simpler and less stressful to wait until afterwards because things here will be really hectic the couple of weeks before ( Read more... )

» Baby cuttlefish!
» Slightly less baby least weasels! (via telophase)
» "Best statistics question ever."
» Edward Gorey, style icon.

FYSW posts of note:
» MJ's first appearance outfit, broken down for cosplayers
» On baby May and denial.

In other news, have to wait next week to see Tintin. xannoside and orion_mk3, you are safe from my gloating ... for now.

The Time Tree: compare two species or higher taxa and find out how long ago their evolutionary split was.

Clothes made from sour milk.

"Fashion designer/microbiologist" sounds like one of those awesome but completely implausible Barbie job descriptions. And yet!

The full trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is up:

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And, in other aquatic-related nerdy news, not only is today the first anniversary of the discovery of Neptune, but the journal Coral Reefs has published the first photographic evidence of tool use in fish.