From earliest memories, "DB" recalls drawing superheroes, monsters and having a particular obsession with rendering a "perfect human skull".
This one above is called "Holy Nightmare." Glad to see that Dave’s managed to become an accomplished artist by drawing monsters, no less! Link – via Mira y Calla
Sherlocco has a neat little generator that allows you to "brand" your own fully functioning search engine (in reality, it’s Google under the hood!): Link – Thanks Tim Wells!
The Stratosphere Giant, the world’s reigning tallest living tree, seems to have lost its title — to not one but three contenders.
Like the 370-foot Giant, the three trees are coast redwoods. They were discovered this summer in Redwood National Park near Eureka by a team of California researchers who spend most of their free time bushwhacking through North Coast forests in search of taller and taller trees. …
The tallest of the three new finds, a redwood named Hyperion, measures 378.1 feet. Next in line, Helios, stands at 376.3 feet; Icarus, the third, reaches 371.2 feet.
Redwood experts say the discovery is a bit surprising considering that so much of the state’s redwood forests have been logged.
My wife is a teacher of young children, and I’ve spent a fair time of late sitting on undersized chairs admiring the alphabet charts on classroom walls. Typically ‘A’ will stand for Apple, ‘B’ for Ball. It occurred to me that ‘I’ for Indian, one I remember from my childhood, has been replaced as it is no longer politically correct to refer to native/first/indigenous Americans as Indians.
Lacking any tact or decency, I therefore determined to create an alphabet using only subjects that, while they might have been unremarked a few decades ago, are now outside acceptable usage.
This website has been making the rounds on the Internet lately and deservingly so : Link – Thanks Martijn!
Why use traps or poisons to get rid of those pesky gophers and moles, when you can *explode* them out of their burrows with the Rodenator?
The Rodenator Pro™ uses a controlled mixture of propane and oxygen that is injected into the rodents burrow. A built-in, self contained ignition system then ignites the mixture, creating an underground shockwave or concussion that instantly eliminates the rodent and collapses the tunnel system of most burrowing rodents species.
And it just got approved for use in Montrose, Colorado to clear its airport runways of prairie dogs. The quotes are just too good to pass up:
Ron Dent, a representative of the Colorado Airport Operators, said airports around the state could benefit from the tool. He runs the La Plata County Airport and said prairie dogs are a problem.
“We can shoot the dumb ones, but the smart ones duck when they know we are coming,” Dent said.
Before approving the Rodenator, Wildlife Commissioner Robert Bray said he supported the technique but wanted people to be properly trained. He said the device has the potential to cause significant damage.
“I just have visions of Caddyshack and Bill Murray,” Bray said.
Nearly 70 years after it was written, Hitler’s best friend August Kubizek’s book The Young Hitler I Knew was finally published in English in full:
… it contains, for the first time, the full story of Hitler’s teenage obsession with a pretty girl called Stefanie Isak — whose surname has clear Jewish origins.
And although Hitler’s distinguished biographer Sir Ian Kershaw has rightly dismissed Hitler’s feelings for Stefanie as ‘a juvenile infatuation’, the passion with which Hitler stalked her and fantasised about kidnapping and committing suicide with her lets us glimpse the mentality of the person he was destined to become.
Furthermore, August Kubizek’s account reveals that Hitler was utterly unconcerned as to whether the girl after whom he lusted was Jewish or not.
Staff at a South Korean amusement park says a 16-year-old male Asian elephant named Kosik can make sounds imitating up to eight Korean words, including "sit," "no," "yes," and "lie down."
The pachyderm produces human-like sounds by putting his trunk in his mouth and shaking it while exhaling – similar to how people whistle with fingers in their mouths.
It seems that the elephant is trying to create solidarity with its trainer by mimicking his words.
Spectrograms show that Kosik’s voice frequency is very similar to his keeper’s when he makes human sounds with 94% accuracy!
It is unclear if Kosik knows the meaning of the sounds he makes.
Those years of washing your face with the same side of the soap that’s been responsible for lathering up your behind are over.
Our Arse/Face Soap is lightly perfumed and comes in a pack of two. Its striking black and white colour scheme means it’s easy to keep tabs on while in the bath.
After all, you wouldn’t want the ‘Face’ side accidentally coming into contact with your, ahem, other side, would you?
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