“Baby goat on a skateboard.” This sentence is, I feel, a sentence we’ve all been missing from our lives, without ever realising it. Need a new exclamation? Or a new “your argument is invalid” dismissal? “Baby goat on a skateboard!”
Tag Archives: animals
Nabokov’s Butterfly
Random Wikipedia fact of the day: The Karner Blue [butterfly] was first identified and named by novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karner_Blue
St Roch’s Dog
A random Facebook post led me to read up on Saint Roch, or Saint “Does this look infected?”, as I’ve been calling him since seeing his statue in a Paris museum. Roch’s claim to fame was in a miracle escape from plague, assisted by a local mutt: …he would have perished had not a dog […]
Plight of the Penguins
The ad’s more entertaining than the exhibit, at least the part of it I saw.
Cat Love
A friend posted this on Facebook, and while everyone without cats will find it pointless and schmaltzy, everyone with cats has read the entire thing whilst nodding and smiling. My favourite: The vibrating foot-warmer feature is awesome. http://blogs.catster.com/the-cats-meow-a-cat-and-kitten-blog/75-reasons-to-love-cats/2011/12/23/
Pointy Death
A post that’s more worthy of the USS Indianapolis anniversary, rather than Pearl Harbor, but wow: My palms were sweating just watching this. You can hardly blame the guys for swearing, either (though I would like to slap the one suggesting they shoot it) – that boy’s enormous. Half of me thinks it’d be a […]
The Biggest
And another thing that makes the Internet great: Wikipedia’s collection pages are an interesting way to kill a couple of hours. This is a list of the largest living organisms, from the Great Barrier Reef to tiny insects, with every taxonomic category in between. Fascinating stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organism
Pan sapiens
Initial genetic studies characterised the DNA of chimpanzees (common chimpanzee and bonobo, collectively) as being as much as 98% (99.4 in one study) identical to that of Homo sapiens… In the seminal Nature paper reporting on initial genome comparisons, researchers identified thirty-five million single-nucleotide changes, five million insertion or deletion events, and a number of […]
Montane White-Eyes
I was at a bird show yesterday, and amongst the rows and rows of same-looking cage finches were these little beauties. Tiny and eye-catching. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montane_White-eye
Photoblogging and Text to be Eliminated?
http://getsatisfaction.com/stumbleupon/topics/photoblogging_and_text_to_be_eliminated From a user: I won’t be using SU any more. I’ve been taking SU to task for a long time now, and this result is not altogether surprising. You can also find my tumblr and posterous links on my borderline page. They are both great for blogging and have different features and demographics. Better […]