Brought to you by the departments of fascinating and weird, have some animal links...
Genetic engineers in Japan engineer the cat-fear out of mice. I wonder what the auditory equivalent for humans to a lion's roar would be...
And
these crazy photoshopped animals come courtesy
eamclaren. Many of them really come close to being feasible-seeming creatures other worlds. My favorite is the lionfish zebra, but then I have a weakness for anything involving lionfish. The blowfish parrot is a study in how a parrot's ability to cause pain and suffering could certainly be much worse.
And a bonus tech link, via
the Escapist:
Merriam-Webster declares 'w00t' 2007's "word of the year", by popular vote.