Immaculate Komodo Births

we've seen it before. It has reached our shores...

via Dave Barry

Also via Mr. David:

"RUSSIAN boffins could be one step closer to creating a time machine."

What an age!! Advancements on all technological fronts!!

Finally Dave links to this

rhapsodic artistic interpretation of this woman

she was Saddam Hussein's first wife. That masterpiece
earned the artist 2,000 pounds.

Mr. Barry never dissapoints.

Er--wait. One more link from Dave. "The first people in Britain to be charged with interfering with a dolphin."

Nuke Sub

Interesting first hand account of a sub mission (the Sculpin) during the Vietnam war.

via Ultraquietnomore

Year of the Rat

Eat up!!! Lovely video from NatGeo.

Also see this video regarding an 1872 law which allows mining companies to purchase federal land at 5 dollars and less an acre...

Performance Per Dollar

The new 2009 Corvette zr1. Six hundred-ish horsepower and 200-ish top end. Also a uv clear coating component to display the carbon fiber weave which sets manufacturing back $60,000 a gallon!!:

"There’s even a secret ingredient in the clear-coat for the carbon fiber body panels that costs $60,000 a gallon, G.M. said. Caution: Use sparingly – that works out to $900 worth on each car."

That car for 100 grand-ish should embarrass some more exotic vehicles...

Obama Winds

In Indonesia.

Shocker.

via Boortz

Update: Yikes!!! The computer was very slow yesterday and yet I was slower. The heading should not include that "d."

Eastern Hemlock

Richard Preston, whose book "The Wild Trees" I look forward to reading or listening to, had a compelling article on the woolly adelgid ravaging the Eastern Hemlock in the Dec. 3, New Yorker. It's not available online, but well worth the read if you can acquire it.

American Chestnut

Joey Chestnut

Happy Pancake Day

It's today.

Via Fark

For Adam and Jimmy

Via Free Market Fairy Tales:

The prospects are beyond bleak viz a viz the current talent roster.

Cameras

Over at Wired. I have really enjoyed mine, actually I will take a moment to try and post a photo I haven't yet, just because. It's not great, but I like it nonetheless. Actually maybe that has been posted.

Spider Vs. Bat

A video for those holding on until Halloween.

Global Warming

will increase the predations of the undead. No joke. via Instapundit.

I have mentioned the menace before.

Michael Colameco

Has a decent radio and television program. I like food. I realize that I'm out on a limb with that statement, but I will stand by it.

Also regarding food, here we have cheeseburger in a can...yum. It's all true.

Glenn also mentions the closing of the Yankee Doodle. Rats.

Update: I have noticed some activity on the Colameco reference and I feel I should add that my dry endorsement may come up short with those unfamiliar with me. He's actually pretty cool and I like the shows much. "Decent" does not do him justice.

So there.

Update: Here is a link to the Colameco show.

Update to the update: Oops. I do realize that last link is superfluous. I will poke around and find more to link... I really like his stuff and he rescues Sundays from radio hell...God Bless that man...

New Shrew

and it's a biggie.

Changing metal surface colors using lasers. This is very cool and no doubt will be everywhere soon.

Which made me think of this, where gold is given other colors.

Also GPS-wielding pygmies save the day. Video.

Which made me think of Ota Benga...More here, and here is Phillips Verner Bradford's official OtaBenga.com site with a Benga synopsis!

Previous shrew link.

Ground Hog Day

Is tomorrow. Here is a brief history. Here is another with a record of every known groundhog outcome.

OED Compact

I want one.