Monday, July 13, 2009

I'm predicting a ménage à trois


Male Magellan penguins Harry and Pepper have been together since 2003. The pair nested together and even incubated an egg laid by another penguin in 2008, but their relationship hit the rocks earlier this year when a female penguin, Linda, befriended Harry after her long-time companion died.

This did not go over well with Pepper, who became violent. The three penguins were separated for some time following the fight. more

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Oh Noes!


LOLcats by Doctor Popular

It's a jungle out there!

And I mean that literally!


I love my garden in the spring but all of a sudden in July it goes crazy and it scares me. Perhaps it was all those Tarzan movies I watched as a kid - you know the ones with poisonous snakes and quicksand and whatever lurked beneath that loincloth. Anyhow I garden at this time of year with trepidation. It is with a faint heart I wade into shoulder high phlox to trim the climbing rose.

I'm not sure what I fear - mosquitoes, rose thorns, snakes and sickly white borer beetles are all realistic possibilities. I am also afraid that I might step on Mr. Toad who sometimes has a beer with Mr. Nag on the patio. I once cut the leg off a toad when I was doing a bit of trimming. As you can imagine this resulted in hysteria and was perhaps the trigger for my acquired garden phobia. The worst and most delusional fear is that the body of one of the beloved spaniels we buried on the property will somehow rise to the surface and I'll be confronted with terrifying putrefaction.
Now you know.

What the Hell Are Young People Thinking?

My curmudgeon friend Don Mills offers more pearls of wisdom, this time in pie chart form.



Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys






This unique and charming exhibition, the first of its kind at any U.S. arts institution, charts the achievements of the Japanese tin-toy industry in the two decades following World War II. See more of The Yoku Tanaka Collection

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Get some perspective


Saturday, July 11, 2009

Malia wears a t-shirt with a peace symbol on it. Right wing scum take offence.


J-Walk quotes from the comments on an article in Free Republic:

  • If the kid starts making political statements then she is fair game. Wonder when she will have her first abortion.
  • Daddy better keep an eye on that thug. I'd hate for Miss Obama to be punished with a child.
  • They make me sick.... The whole family... mammy, pappy, the free loadin' mammy-in-law, the misguided chillin', and especially ‘lil cuz... This is not the America I want representin' my peeps.
  • Abominable.

Waiting Topless

This made me sad.



The Sunday Best » Waiting Topless
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Dirty

How to make a dirty martini.


The catalyst was my love of olives. The martini, for me, was primarily an olive delivery system. So naturally I gravitated towards what is termed the "Dirty Martini", or, as is aptly demonstrated in the comic above by the Mojo The Sock Monkey Eight-Panel Players, a martini with olive juice added. And maybe some trash. More at Bearskinrug

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Love In July


Seen at NOTCOT.ORG

Dance Me To The End of Love


"Dance Me To The End of Love" Leonard Cohen

Friday, July 10, 2009

Home Sweet Home


Brilliant new video from Sweden's finest exports. Those Dancing Days release their debut album in October.
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Panda party


Giant panda Tai Shan checks out his birthday cake at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. The zoo held an event to celebrate the panda's fourth birthday with a frozen cake made from water, bamboo, shredded beets and beet juice. Seen at Jezebel.

Who was the first blogger?


Say Everything, A New Book on The History & Impact of Blogging by Scott Rosenberg

Children In Care




Children's charity Action for Children turns 140 this year. These images show its early days, through the boys and girls it took off the streets, and the buildings it inhabited, right back to when Thomas Bowman Stephenson started it all in 1869.

Surviving Rio’s Favelas

This photo essay depicts the life of favelas, or shantytowns, in Rio, Brazil, as the communities are deteriorated by gang violence.

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Thursday, July 09, 2009

What exactly does he do in the loo?

Laughter was prompted by the fact leaders were, once again, waiting for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to show up and take his place for the official photo prior to today's crucial meetings on climate change.

His late arrival at the London G20 photo op in April had prompted jokes about his having been in the 'loo.' TheStar.com

Tardiness is one fault I have no patience for. It shows a lack of respect for the people one keeps waiting. All the other world leaders have no problem being on time. Another irksome personality flaw is the stubborn refusal to do anything about global warming.

My garden today

A dark corner

A rose I planted years ago with several others. Trees grew up around it and now it's all alone.

Lavender

Lovely lilies

Looking Thru the B-Sides


Looking Thru the B-Sides a short film for Fuel TV network.
www.golden-lucky.com
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Things I Have Written in Cover Letters.

My interests and inclinations, all of them natural

'This position interests me so much because it's a natural extension of my inclinations; I am a museum-goer, a visitor of artists' studios, a reader of books on art, an admirer of artists.'

'I enjoy preparing meals, reading about food and cooking, and writing about it, so working in this capacity would be a natural extension of a personal interest.'

'As a teacher, when I saw a spark of interest in a student − whatever source it arose from − I felt a natural inclination to encourage that spark.'

Read more at McSweeney's Internet Tendency
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Bet you can't guess who these legs belong to


Get the answer at Urlesque

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

janaundjs

Paris street art by Jana and JS.





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James Dean — Driving PSA

Isn't this a wee bit like having Pete Doherty do an anti-drug PSA?

It's a good thing Jim started driving with extra caution. Goodness knows what might have happened otherwise!

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Nightly Falls Illumination

Because the Falls are just down the road a bit and I pass by them regularly I tend to take them for granted. This time lapse video reminds me just how spectacular they are, particularly at night.


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Shub-Niggurath And Her Performing Cthulhus


H/T Miss C Recommends

Monday, July 06, 2009

Edward Penfield Gallery




More at Art Browser

Brigitte Bardot & Dario Moreno


HT Funky Junk Trunk

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Glastonbury 2009



30 great photos of the Glastonbury Festival at Boston.com

The Lives They Left Behind


When Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes closed in 1995, workers discovered hundreds of suitcases in the attic of an abandoned building. Many of them appeared untouched since their owners packed them decades earlier before entering the institution.

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50 Wealthiest People in The World

Looks like 29 of them are in the US.
Visual Economics
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