August 26, 2009
August 19, 2009
Spined Micrathena
The spined micrathena (micrathena gracilis), or spined orb-weaver, builds a new web every day and takes it down every night, writes Jeffrey K. Barnes of The University of Arkansas Arthropod Museum: "At dusk, the female ingests virtually every strand of the web except frame threads, on which she remains until morning. She rebuilds the orb at dawn."
This one was just a few feet from my front door.
Full-size version of this is here.
This one was just a few feet from my front door.
Full-size version of this is here.
August 15, 2009
August 14, 2009
August 11, 2009
Top Ten Instantaneous Reactions To The Sentence "Octomom gets two-hour TV special":
10: Is there a punctuation mark more interrobangy than the interrobang? Because a mere "WTF!?" just isn't going to suffice here.
9: I would rather watch my mom get an enema.
8: That's it, I'm moving back to Canada.
7: Just knowing that this is on another channel makes me feel like I'm wasting the $13 a month I spend on Basic Cable.
6: I'm pretty sure it's just going to be a rip-off of Part One of Monty Python's "The Meaning Of Life."
5: Well, if they get Scott Hamilton to co-host and call it "Disney's Clown Car Vagina On Ice" I'm sure it will do well.
4: Somewhere, a production assistant is wondering, "How is spending three weeks changing diapers on someone else's *@$&@$^^#% kids going to help MY career?!?"
3: [Four minutes of head-shaking vigorous enough to cause a contrecoup injury.]
2: Even if only Octomom and her kids watch it, the thing's going to be a ratings HIT!
1: It still can't be worse than that live Rosie O'Donnell thing.
9: I would rather watch my mom get an enema.
8: That's it, I'm moving back to Canada.
7: Just knowing that this is on another channel makes me feel like I'm wasting the $13 a month I spend on Basic Cable.
6: I'm pretty sure it's just going to be a rip-off of Part One of Monty Python's "The Meaning Of Life."
5: Well, if they get Scott Hamilton to co-host and call it "Disney's Clown Car Vagina On Ice" I'm sure it will do well.
4: Somewhere, a production assistant is wondering, "How is spending three weeks changing diapers on someone else's *@$&@$^^#% kids going to help MY career?!?"
3: [Four minutes of head-shaking vigorous enough to cause a contrecoup injury.]
2: Even if only Octomom and her kids watch it, the thing's going to be a ratings HIT!
1: It still can't be worse than that live Rosie O'Donnell thing.
August 5, 2009
Ten Most Infuriating Provisions Of The New Health Care Bill.
10: In addition to free health care, Kenyans entitled to weekly massages.
9: Canadian-style hospitalization rules mandate Labatt Blue I.V. drip for all patients.
8: Tea-Party-related injuries not covered.
7: People of colour not required to sit in back of ER waiting areas.
6: Carrying of concealed firearms by anesthetized patients forbidden.
5: Before being euthanized, elderly patients to be used as test subjects for live organ transplants.
4: Mandatory recycling of bandages and sharing of casts.
3: As cost-saving measure, hospital gowns to be 3 inches shorter.
2: Surgical masks to feature advertising.
1: Poor people will have access to basic medical care.
9: Canadian-style hospitalization rules mandate Labatt Blue I.V. drip for all patients.
8: Tea-Party-related injuries not covered.
7: People of colour not required to sit in back of ER waiting areas.
6: Carrying of concealed firearms by anesthetized patients forbidden.
5: Before being euthanized, elderly patients to be used as test subjects for live organ transplants.
4: Mandatory recycling of bandages and sharing of casts.
3: As cost-saving measure, hospital gowns to be 3 inches shorter.
2: Surgical masks to feature advertising.
1: Poor people will have access to basic medical care.
August 4, 2009
One of these things is not like the other.
"Well, you like that Ricky Gervais fella in the British version of The Office, and you were always talking about how funny he was in Extras, too, so naturally we thought you'd like this movie that didn't have Ricky Gervais in it and was about that airplane crash in the Andes where the survivors had to resort to cannibalism to stay alive."
(Full-size (484x398) image here.)
(Full-size (484x398) image here.)
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