This week’s Green Thing is a Flickr/Google mashup site called the Earth Album. Click anywhere on the Google map and it will take you to a cataloge of Flickr images from that location.
The ten worst countries to be blogger.
Buy your pet emergency evacuation jackets here.
Morford: Ready to eat your face and scream.
Ten people who gave their name to food.
Today’s slide show is a collection of dumb inventions.
Not sure about the source, but I’ve read in several places that the true number of swine flu cases is much less than the government is reporting. An epidemic means big money for pharmaceutical firms, and you don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to know that you can never underestimate what the powers that be are capable of when big money is at stake. (Thanks Brenda.)
The Big Picture celebrates Autumn.
Movie Rating: Amelia.
Hilary Swank creates Earhart pretty much exactly as I would have imagined her in real life. I learned from Ebert that the first song ever heard on television was "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight”, by Red River Dave. Hear it here. 3 starfish out of 5 (the biopic, not the song)
Geek Stuff: Get your DNA t-shirt here.
Cool Site of the Week: The Most Interesting Academy is a lot of fun to play around with. And it will make you a most interesting person. Be sure to check out their interactive courses.
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The Daily Mail has a photo of Mount Everest taken by hand from a balloon a mile above the mountain’s peak.
Watch the quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog.
A pictorial field guide to beef cuts.
Turns out a pair of lions accused of eating up to 135 railroad workers in 1898 actually only ate 35 people. What’s really incredible about this story is how scientists figured out the true number.
I sometimes say I’m not religious, I’m spiritual. Apparently that’s not so cool anymore. (If you don't follow this strip, the middle guy is Moses.)
This is Omega Centauri.
How many people are in space right now?
Ten ways to eat gold.
Fans of James Randi can now get a Fishi Randi car emblem, complete with wand, top hat and rapier wit.
Hump Day musical interlude:Natural formations that look man-made.
Obama just released satellite images, suppressed by the last misadministration, that shows summer ice sheets retreating in the Arctic.
Now we’re cookin’: The blog A Hamburger Today gives us a guide to various hamburger and cheeseburger styles.
Stuff you should know: Placebos are getting more effective, and drug companies aren’t happy about it.
I was watching two deer crossing a four-lane highway last night. I figured they would make it across easily but the car in front of me didn’t slow down a bit and clipped the second one, stopped, and then took off leaving it writhing in the right hand lane. I pulled over and dragged it off the road before the rest of the traffic reached us. She kept trying to get back across the road, so I spent the next twenty minutes wrestling it to the ground. She did get one good kick in that knocked the wind out of me. I was pretty sure I broke a rib, but it seems ok now. It died just as the police arrived, which was good because I really didn’t want to watch them shoot it. I’d like to think I may have prevented an accident, but in hindsight pinning a deer down in the breakdown lane probably wasn’t a very good idea. I felt really bad for it. But like any good blogger, I took a photo (warning: dead deer). Tuesdays are supposed to be for coonhound blogging, so I’ll mention that Creole was going berserk watching the whole thing from the car.
If you’re already uneasy about capital punishment, Trial By Fire may push you further into the against it camp. It’s today’s long read and it’s a fascinating account of arson investigation techniques and how flawed conventional wisdom about this is.
Meat is murder on the environment.
"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."
The Big Picture remembers Apollo 11.
Timewaster of the Week: No Funny Business. It’s a pretty good comic.
Albino Monday: Black bear in Montana (thanks Hans).
This week’s Green Thing is the city of Berkeley, which is trying to go solar.
Six intriguingly shaped communities as seen on Google Maps.
Cosmic Evolution could possibly be the coolest website you’ll ever visit.
Morford: Ten million bloody plastic eyeballs.
The ten oldest cities that are still inhabited.
Cool pumpkin carvings.
The ten best ghost movies, vampire movies and werewolf films.
Unpopular halloween costumes.
Pet Corner: Here are some cats in costumes.
Creepy halloween party foods.
These are the worst candies to give out at halloween.
Geek Stuff: USS Enterprise costume for dogs.
Cool Site of the Week: The Acid Cow has a collection of dead fly art.
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