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