Bummingherds

wow, the wings on their faces are amazing.

 

 

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Bummingherds

via Cute Overload by Meg on 11/30/10

Check out these gorgeous, tiny-beaked, prosh hummers:

Bird (photography!) watcher Sharon D. sent in this fabulous set, shown with permission, by Tony Markle. You canbuy prints of his work here. All hovertext bird facts are from Wikipedia.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Birds

 

 

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Get Over It

 

 

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Get Over It

via boy culture by Matthew Rettenmund on 11/30/10

Pentagon report on the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell—it wouldn't be a big deal and rumors of the predatory nature of gays is stereotypical.

 

 

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Kenny Scharf Mural on Houston Street Wall

 

 

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Kenny Scharf Mural on Houston Street Wall

via Laughing Squid by Scott Beale on 11/30/10

Last night we stopped by the recently completed Kenny Scharf mural on the wall located the corner of Houston and Bowery in New York's Lower East Side that is curated by Hole Gallery. Previously the wall featured a tribute to Keith Haring, followed by art by Os Gemeos, Shepard Fairey and Barry McGee.

photos by Scott Beale

 

 

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Facebook and Twitter Adidas Sneakers

Ummm... really?

 

 

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Facebook and Twitter Adidas Sneakers

via Laughing Squid by Scott Beale on 11/30/10

Gerry Mckay has designed a series of Adidas Superstars sneakers based on Facebook and Twitter.

[via Om Malik]

 

 

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Treehoppers: bugs that look like Dali designed them

whoa. alien?

 

 

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Treehoppers: bugs that look like Dali designed them

via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 11/29/10

Ecologist and author Jerry A. Coyne writes about the amazing, bizarre treehoppers, which really, really do look like this (they were recently featured in a Nature article on Alfred Keller, who sculpted the model shown here):

The second thing one asks is, "What the bloody hell is all that ornamentation on the thorax?" (Note that the "balls" on the antenna-like structure aren't eyes, but simply spheres of chitin.) A first guess is that it's a sexually-selected trait, but those are often limited to males, and these creatures (and the ones below) show the ornaments in both sexes. Kemp hypothesizes--and this seems quite reasonable--that "the hollow globes, like the remarkable excrescences exhibited by other treehoppers, probably deter predators." It would be hard to grab, much less chow down on, a beast with all those spines and excrescences.

The surreal treehoppers (via Geisha Asobi)

 

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• Artificial butterfly for studying insect flight - Boing Boing
• The Insect Company - Oddities and rarities - Boing Boing
• Science Question From a Toddler: Insect Sex - Boing Boing
• Name this Insect - Boing Boing
• World's Rarest Insect found on Rocky Spire - Boing Boing

 

 

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So cool

So cool!

Miami Zoo Welcomes a Baby Pygmy Hippo

why are pygmy hippos so damn cute

 

 

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Miami Zoo Welcomes a Baby Pygmy Hippo

via ZooBorns by Andrew Bleiman on 11/22/10

A female Pygmy Hippo was born last week at Zoo Miami.  Her mother is 18 year old "Kelsey," who was born at the Baton Rouge Zoo and arrived at Zoo Miami in May of 1993. This is her first baby.  The father is 11 year old "Pogo" who was born in the Toronto Zoo and arrived at Zoo Miami in June of 2009. Pygmy hippos are extremely rare and are found in isolated pockets of West Africa, mainly in Liberia, with only a few thousand remaining in the wild.  They are substantially smaller than the more common river hippos, usually weighing between 500 and 700 pounds as opposed to the river hippos which can weigh close to 8,000 pounds.

Photo credits: Ron Magill taken at Zoo Miami

 

 

 

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HOWTO knit TARDIS socks!

 

 

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HOWTO knit TARDIS socks!

via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 11/22/10

Knitter Tara Wheeler has whipped up these wonderful TARDIS socks: "I knitted up a pair of these a few years ago and they've gotten lots of complements. I've finally written up my pattern, which pre-supposes you know how to knit socks."

TARDIS Socks (via Neatorama)

 

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