Joel Veitch {wiki} of Rathergood is a big supporter of Tommy's Charity, a UK-based foundation funding research into miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births. Last year he created the ultra-silly animation Tommy's 12 Days of Christmas to help raise awareness and funds for the organization. Link -Thanks, Bill!
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Joel Veitch {wiki} of Rathergood is a big supporter of Tommy's Charity, a UK-based foundation funding research into miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births. Last year he created the ultra-silly animation Tommy's 12 Days of Christmas to help raise awareness and funds for the organization. Link -Thanks, Bill!
I don’t know what this is, or how to adequately describe it. It's pretty and interactive. It’s from Adobe Japan, and I don’t read Japanese. If you do, maybe you can find out something about it. Go take a look. Link -via Grow-A-Brain
The owner of a Christmas tree farm in east Tennessee found that someone had sawed off the tops of 28 large Christmas trees that were ready for market. The thief took about six feet of each tree, leading authorities to believe they will be sold as whole Christmas trees. The damaged Frasier firs would have been sold for $100 to $150 dollars each to organizations and businesses with high ceilings. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=cp_fj4drqn8h37&show_article=1&catnum=9 -via Fark
Scott Johnson of ExtraLife created a poster identifying 56 Geeks. You may recognize some of your friends here! Link to an image of the full poster. Link to order. -via the Presurfer
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Matt Hempey wrote and produced this song about the inflated value of Web 2.0. It’s a Silicon Valley music video by The Richter Scales. -via Reddit
American cuisine might not be the healthiest on earth, but we love it anyway! mental_floss brings you the places (and stories) behind your favorites, such as hamburgers, onion rings, corn dogs, and root beer floats in the article The 10 Greatest Birthplaces on the Great American Food Trail. Link
Scientists have announced the discovery of a dinosaur “mummy”, a dried hadrosaur with much of its skin, tissue, and bones intact. The find was made in 1999 in North Dakota. The presence of tendons and ligaments give researchers new insight to how dinosaurs moved. Although the hadrosaur was 35 feet long and weighed 35 tons, they estimate he could run up to 28 miles per hour, faster than a T. rex! Link to story. Link to video report.
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This cute kitten is just playing, but he looks like he wants to be Maneki Neko! If that makes no sense to you, see the earlier post Seven Strange Lucky Charms. -via Arbroath
Writer and photographer Shreve Stockton took in a baby coyote when his parents were shot for killing sheep in Wyoming. She is documenting Charlie’s life with her and Eli the cat on the blog The Daily Coyote.
If Charlie demonstrates the need or desire to be out in the wild, there are places around here I could safely set him loose. There’s no question he would survive in the wild just fine - his instincts are very intact (more on this later), and though he is gentle and attached to me and to MC, he is afraid of other people.
From the beginning, I have made the commitment to let Charlie decide his destiny; to do right by him without attaching my own desires to the outcome or interfering with human logic. You can join me in seeing what unfolds.
MC refers to a coyote expert who is helping with Charlie. Scroll down the blog and check the archives for adorable baby pictures. Link -Thanks, Bill!
Immersive Media makes 360-degree panoramic videos. Push play, then mouseover to move your viewpoint left or right while the scene moves. You can also pan while the video is paused. This video is 42nd Street in New York City. Other video demos are available at the site. http://demos.immersivemedia.com/ -via Metafilter
I’m glad to see that the Stormtroopers found other employment after the Star Wars saga. Source -via Unique Daily
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An imaginative begger or a cheap busker? This was recorded at Union Square in San Francisco. -via Arbroath
In a study at Tokyo University, 5-year-old chimpanzees displayed better short-term memory than college students!
Researchers believe that relative youth helped the chimpanzees, so the next step is to match the chimps against young children. http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHIMP_MEMORY?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-12-03-12-
That challenges the belief of many people, including many scientists, that "humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions," said researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University.
"No one can imagine that chimpanzees - young chimpanzees at the age of 5 - have a better performance in a memory task than humans," he said in a statement.
Matsuzawa, a pioneer in studying the mental abilities of chimps, said even he was surprised. He and colleague Sana Inoue report the results in Tuesday's issue of the journal Current Biology.
Researchers believe that relative youth helped the chimpanzees, so the next step is to match the chimps against young children. http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHIMP_MEMORY?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-12-03-12-
The Switch Me salt and pepper shaker has both salt and pepper in the same unit. You flip the switch to change from one to the other. Link -via Dump Trumpet
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