Save The Words is asking everyone to adopt a word that has fallen into disuse and save it from falling out of the English language. I have adopted Snollygoster, a definition can be found here, which is a word that describes almost everyone in our congress. Anyhow, there are many words without homes, if you [...]
So the enforcement of the new children’s toy safety law has been put off a year. Good. This was a terrible law and was about to ensure that the only winners were the Chinese, who the law was supposed to protect us from. This was an incredibly poorly written law and was about to have [...]
Great article on vacation spots for Summer of Fear fans, 10 Shark Infested Beaches. They have got some pretty broad definitions of beaches, listing two of them as Oahu and Maui, but the article is filled with summer of fear goodness including this great video of two sharks dry gulching a surfer. You know god [...]
Snow Dog Originally uploaded by Tancread Our dog is a mutt, a happy rescued stray. We think he is part Husky, but nobody really knows. That said, we know he loves snow and cold weather. This is as he sat in our yard looking over his kingdom in a snow storm.
Ok, I missed this on in the paper but it was pointed out to me by Stacey. A zoo keeper at the Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo was attacked by a Jaguar this week. Sounds like a pretty bad attack, according to Wikipedia* Jaguars attack by trying to punch through the target’s skull, which I [...]
I am not normally a big Bollywood guy but this is awesome. Via Aardvarchaeology
The Guardian has a thought provoking series this week on 1000 novels everyone must read. The list is very UK flavored, not surprising for a UK paper, but it has a lot of good stuff in it and doesn’t miss out much I would have added in the categories I have read the most in [...]
Many of you are probably tired of last year’s big internet meme, Bears in Ill Fitting Hats, but David Malki wants to make sure we wrap it all up properly by telling the stories of the bears themselves. Yes I know they were everywhere and even your Grandmother is making Bears in Ill Fitting Hat [...]
Thanks to a news story about how UK nurses are being savagely mauled by squirrels the UK Mirror has also posted up its
The plane crash today in the Hudson river with everybody on board surviving was a miracle. Like all miracles I think it had some help. The strict requirements for pilot training helped here, the pilot kept his head and did an good emergency landing. The aircraft safety training the crew went through paid off as [...]