In our ongoing quest to find the fansite of the most pathetically non-fansite-deserving thing or entity in the world, we have come across, thanks to BoingBoing, a uniquely strong contender.
The only real quibble is it's not technically a site, but rather a Flickr tag.
Still, a strong showing nonetheless, for something it's almost impossible to imagine someone actually giving a rat's ass about.
Flickr photos of airline spoons.
Well, the original eagle cam is done for the year; no hatching eggs means a lot of disappointed readers (and not a few conspiracy theorists, I might add) so the Hornby Island team has found a new nest, with chicks, near the Swartz Bay ferry terminal on Vancouver Island. FYI This is the ferry that takes people to Vancouver from Victoria…only it's not really very close to Victoria…it's complicated.
Anyway, the link is the same: Streaming Eagle Cam Swartz Bay this time.
And here's a pair of Peregrine Falcons in Harrisburg, with chicks.
And my previous posts on eagles:
Streaming Eagle Cam 2.0 Baby Eagles in Colorado
Eagle Chick on Santa Cruz Island, California
and
My Original article on the Eagle Cam; perhaps these new eagles are the ones Christi and I spotted in the story here.
Well, this is the end of hopes for eaglets from the famed Hornby Island pair of baldies.
A week ago, one of the eggs went missing without a trace, and this Thursday morning the last remaining egg was found crushed, with no sign of a chick within.
Scientists think the pair may be simply too old to raise a pair of viable eggs to chick stage, although they allow it could just be bad luck. Theories as to what happened to the other egg include predators such as ravens, or the parents inadvertently or deliberately pushing it out of the nest. Apparently, on occasion eagles will decide a certain egg is not viable and will delete it. No traces of eggshell were found on the ground, but another predator or scavenger could have made off with the egg-coated snacks.
"At 11:24 a.m. the eagle got up and the egg was completely broken. I looked as closely as I could but could see no evidence of a chick hatched successfully or of a dead chick," wrote Carrick in an e-mail.
"The parent [female, I believe] looked at this central area for a while and then sat back down just like any other time. We'll have to wait for a while longer."
And here's the eagle cam, for what it's worth now. Just a plain ol' pair of empty nesters.
He's been out of competition for weeks; are Barbaro's owners going for the Triple Crown? I hope so, damn thing hasn't been won in almost twenty years because of greedhead owners skipping the Preakness because it's too close to the Derby and any horse who runs only one stands a better chance of winning. A well-rested horse who bypasses the rich competing races and concentrates, can make history this year. Especially if he has this much talent.
PS Damn, no bourbon for Mint Juleps! But with this on YouTube, I can have Derby Day any day I feel like it!
Let's hope not. Martha Mata Vasquez is the Botox Killer. Her charge has just been upgraded, from the piddly "manslaughter" to actual murder, based on new evidence. Currently being held in Monterey County jail with bail set at $1,000,000, Martha has been toddling all over Northern California giving so-called "Botox Parties" where, instead of actually delivering the deadly poison to the nerves as she was hired to do, she instead injected her victims with cooking oil. It's cheaper, at least in the short run. And there's little risk of victims going to the police and admitting they'd done something so stupid. If they didn't care about appearances, they wouldn't be buying cosmetic medical procedures in the first place.
No-one wants to look bad.
Olivia Castillo just wanted a perky butt. If she thought Botox would give it to her, she didn't understand the first thing about Botox: it's what you give something when it won't stop perking, and you don't want it to. Yes, it can keep your nipples down. It could keep Colin Farrell down in a nudist colony. It can keep anything down, frankly, if you use enough of it in the right place. But Olivia didn't really care about the details, she just wanted a nice butt.
So she paid a total stranger to inject her with substances she didn't understand, in the uncertified and unsterile surroundings of a friend's living room. And died of an embolism as a result.
Man, what ever happened to Tupperware?
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