We know the bunyip as an Australian cryptid whose legend goes back hundreds of years in Aboriginal folklore. Descriptions of the bunyip are varied and murky because it is too scary to observe for long. One of the best known bunyip sightings came in 1879 when three miners went duck hunting at night in Hexham Swamp, near Newcastle, New South Wales. They were startled by a great roar "like that of a lion" and saw two eyes glowing gold. They left immediately. The legend of the Hexham bunyip had begun.
Hexham Swamp is now a part of Hunter Wetlands National Park, and conservationists there are working to protect the Hexham bunyip, which is in danger of going extinct. This is not a hoax like the wild haggis, because experts have identified what creature the miners saw in 1879. Find out what it was, and read about the status of the Hexham bunyip at ABC News. -via Metafilter
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It had formerly been a large stone chapel when that part of the campus was part of an adjacent seminary. It always struck me a bit ironic that the geeks at a technical school now "pay worship" to the computer housed therein.
Programmer to omniscient supercomputer: Is there a God?
Supercomputer: There is now.