i have called animal control, they said they consider skunks to be "pests" and we have to call pest control. they say the same thing about racoons - we used to have a racoon problem but i scared them away. skunks are harder to scare away because they will spray if i threaten them.

anyway the pest control places want $200+ to set traps and they don't guarantee it will work and i just don't have the money right now.

as a matter of fact, i made my comment at 3AM and went to sleep - at 5:15 they woke me up again. i'm so tired of them :(

i live in San Francisco and every night a family of skunks comes into the house (via the cat door).

at first it was cute but now it's REALLY annoying. they make a giant mess, they are noisy, they are stupid, and they STINK.

i would be very happy if someone who wanted pet skunks came by and grabbed them when they came in. i just had one wander into my room less than an hour ago.

this is maybe the most poorly designed infographic i've ever seen

the colors are different so there's no A-B comparison

the smallest numbers are on the largest rings

curved line lengths are hard to compare

whoever made that should be fired :(

bad idea for a bunch of reasons:

1) rubber has to be thin to flex but is in the #1 spot for wear - tire will wear out fast and can't be repaired

2) increases rolling resistance which is biker's #1 worst enemy

3) adds weight to wheel, which is really bad for stability and efficiency

4) most of the time a tire just goes flat and rider still needs a pump. this will only help when there is a slow leak in the middle of a ride - a rare occasion

i'm so disappointed. neatorama has been one of my favorite blogs for years. are you going to start repeating all the other lies that appear in right-wing media outlets? maybe a post about how barack obama is a kenyan socialist?

you've really lost a lot of credibility today with this heinous, disgusting blog post

please don't put dumb fake videos on this excellent blog. that's a quick way to lose my trust :(

syzygy actually isn't that hard - usually people guess vowels first and when they are forced to guess Y, it's a giveaway for anyone familiar with the word

jazz would be hard unless they guessed J, at which point the jig is up

my favorite go-to hangman secret weapon word has always been zephyr

what a terrible idea. this really bothers me so much

i hope it's an art piece satirizing capitalism because it represents everything wrong with where civilization is going - even the most basic pleasures in life aren't considered valuable anymore unless they put a dollar in someone's pocket.

but there is a hidden cost to a bench like this much greater than that little bit of money - discouraging people from enjoying nature, from enjoying their own public places, giving people one more tiny little prod to keep moving, keep busy, be productive. that's why 1/3 of americans are depressed and heart attacks are the number one cause of death and respect for the environment is worse than ever.

from the setup and the kid's reaction i think (i hope) this is fake

it must be fake. there are no spiders that big in real life.

don't tell me otherwise, i don't want to know about it

this same guy is constantly suing game companies.

he sued sony for banning him from everquest and already sued blizzard for wasting his life.

he's either crazy or a lawyer or both

i had pirated it on my wii so i took the opportunity to give them a little money. i can't afford $20 for a casual game i played for a couple hours but $5 seemed justified

the ABZ book is when i realized as a kid shel was more than just a cartoonist, he was a brilliant satirist and humorist. i always planned to name my first kid after shel (boy or girl) because i admire his creative genius :D

i lit about 10 thousand million of those when i was a kid in the 80s... does this mean an imminent death from mercury poisoning for me?????

i spent the first few years of my life in one of those houses. all i remember from it is that my mother says i fell down some stairs into the garage