One small slurp for gecko, one giant bite for lizardkind!

@Scotchdrnkr: love your comment!

What nc says about structuring the site is fascinating-- I wonder what would work better to surface some of the excellent older content?

The mayor of a town in Sicily is offering old stone houses for one euro (about $1.38 today) if you promise to fix them up:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/09/a-villa-for-one.html

Reminds me of the story I read in The Onion last week, "Brave Mountain Lion Fends of Group of Hikers":
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/brave_mountain_lion_fends_off

The Zadar Sea Organ is awesome, and the Croatians didn't demolish a cemetery to build it. The sound comes out from holes below the steps:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2006/10/cravable_croati.html

Thanks Alex!

@Matt: The Springfield Tire Fire is indicated by an arrow in the lower southeast corner, next to Little Lisa's Recycling Plant.

I didn't realize Rommelwood Military Academy was so close to downtown Springfield. And I like knowing where Noiseland Video Arcade is, not far from the Turn Your Head and Coif beauty parlor.

Did you know the right answer to the trivia question about how many minutes the actress Margaret Hamilton (who plays the Wicked Witch of the West and Miss Gulch) appears on screen during the movie? I guessed wrong.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/2008/08/12

No wonder Megan Carpentier isn't taken seriously as a political blogger-- she blogs for GLAMOUR, the magazIne that perpetuates the notion that shoe shopping and wearing cosmetics. are vital issues for women.

I know some intelligent women who blog and who are taken seriously, such as brainy, outspoken economist Megan McArdle whose blog, Asymmetrical Information, now appears in the Atlantic:
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/ She's worth reading.

The video says one red panda pup died, but the other's still alive.

Both great ideas!

There's an article on the National Geographic site called "Animal MInds" about animals with memory skills, communication skills and tool-making skills that we previously thought were limited to humans:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/animal-minds/virginia-morell-text

Here's a National Geographic story and photo gallery about the Fongoli chimps of Senegal who make pointed sticks that they use to spear bush babies in tree holes:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/chimps-with-spears/mary-roach-text

Oh, cute photo!
Some people at my office spent hours making this Peeps diorama for the Washington Post Peeps contest:

http://ngm.typepad.com/pop_omnivore/2008/03/jeepers-creeper.html