Google has released artist themes for your personalized Google homepage. There are a lot of great ones, but I recommend Edward Monkton’s. Yesterday I was greeted with monkeys and this morning this is what I saw:
Which is, you know, awesome. And it has just changed to the Pig of Happiness, so he’s got the full spectrum covered.
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For Annette:
SAN FRANCISCO - What’s black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it’s quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.
Pierre, a venerable 25 years old, was going bald, which left him with an embarrassingly exposed, pale pink behind.
Unlike marine mammals, which have a layer of blubber to keep them warm, penguins rely on their waterproof feathers. Without them, Pierre was unwilling to plunge into the academy’s penguin tank and ended up shivering on the sidelines while his 19 peers played in the water.
“He was cold; he would shake,” said Pam Schaller, a senior aquatic biologist at the academy.
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This is Misha to a T. (It’s why we hide our baseball bat.)
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Today’s Daily Puppy nearly gave me a cute-induced heart attack.
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There is so much about this story that tickles me:
Australia rocked by ‘lesbian’ koala revelation
11:00AM Sunday February 25, 2007
By Roger DobsonFemale koalas indulge in lesbian “sex sessions”, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers.
The furry, eucalyptus-eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual.
See? It starts out funny. Apparently Australia is “rocked” by some lesbian animal behavior. Hee.
“… Some females rejected the advances of males that were in their enclosures, only to become willing participants in homosexual encounters immediately after,” say the researchers.
“On several occasions more than one pair of females shared the same pole, and multiple females mounted each other simultaneously. At least one multiple encounter involved five female koalas.
So then we had the taunting of males, the deliciously ironic phrase “shared the same pole,” and a description of lesbian koala orgies! Wonderful!
“One theory put forward by the researchers is that the females do it to attract males; another is that it is simply hormonal, or that it is a stress reliever.
And then the part of the article that made me want to post about it: A researcher (gender *cough* unknown) theorizing they’re doing it to attract males. I honestly almost ruined my laptop by spitting the coffee I was drinking all over it when I read that statement.
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I typically fall into the “Dog’s aren’t actually people” camp when the topic of clothing for dogs comes up. Aside from the occasional bandanna or (although on the line for me but somewhat understandable) Halloween costumes, I’m not a big fan of putting clothes on dogs. I do understand that sometimes it’s too cold for little dogs though, and I guess I can stomach it. All of this is recognizing that this is completely a personal preference type thing and my own issue. (Insert tiny rant about animals as accessories here.) I’m trying to live by the whole, “To each his/her own” and this squarely falls under that category.
HOWEVER.
You have got. to be. KIDDING. ME.
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Three Bengal Tigers on an Exercise Wheel
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We’re fostering four of these little guys for the next two weeks. We pick them up in about four hours. Let the mayhem begin!!
Update:
Here’s the flickr set that will house all the puppy pictures.
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Kimberly: : When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered.
Jim T: : Wacky.
Jim T: : But awesome
Kimberly: : I wish I could disguise myself as a coconut shell.
Kimberly: : It would be a great way to get out of awkward conversations …
Kimberly: : People would be all, “Where’s Kimberly? She was just here and now there’s just this coconut that’s slowly drifting backwards. Darn.”
Jim T: : That would be a good disguise. Unless someone had a sudden hunger for coconut.
Kimberly: : True. But their befuddlement at my disappearance would distract them from any coconut-related hunger.
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