Streaming Eagle Cam 2.0: Baby Eagles in Colorado

Eaglet Alert! More bloody birds! But at least this camera's not overloaded like the one in BC. Three chicks in Fort St. Vrain in Platteville, Colorado. BC ones due any day now; there's some controversy over whether or not markings on the eggs are the eaglets trying to get out.

OT: Who the hell is St. Vrain?

Gawd, I can't believe I'm posting this. I'm really much more interested in Giant Squid, but there aren't many Giant Squid cams. And they're hell on hits! Anyway, those are ugly-ass eagle chicks; quick, somebody Fark me!

Streaming! Eagle! Cam!

Today in Giant Squid News: Photoshoot!

Incredible slideshow of a War of the Worlds photoshoot for a book cover. By Larry Knox, and available here. Sounds dry, I know, but SQUID! SQUID! SQUID!

SQUID! SQUID! SQUID! War of the Worlds Photoshoot

Linkie o’ the Day: Plucky!

This is high on the possibly quite lengthy list of jobs you would not want to perform. Far above Denny's waitress, up in the realms of body bagger and teaser stallion, is the job of cat ball plucker.

It's truly astonishing what you can find just by clicking on a blog title with an old-fashioned word in it.

Such as:

How many of you can put on your resume that you were a cat-balls plucker? I can.

HappyCat! Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! My Balls Are Smooth!

The interesting thing about the hair on a cat’s balls is that the hair comes out in nice clumps, like tiny toupees for wee gnomes. And there’s nothing quite as satisfying as seeing a cat’s freshly plucked sack. And I don’t mean that in a sick way, though I’m sure I just hit a chord with some of you fetishists. I mean it just looks, uh, fresh. It looks like a bald baby’s head emerging from the womb of a freakishly hirsute mother. Like a fleshy orb rising from a lake of fur. Like a bald nut sack on a cat.

Yeah, I'm glad he took the high road with that post. And aren't you glad I did:

No photoillustrations!

Stonefridge; Monument for the Ages

From Sploid. You know it's a slow news day when you've checked Fark, Guido Fawkes, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, the Province, BoingBoing, News of the Weird and the ever-reliable Weekly World News and you only find one story worth posting.

This is it.

STONEFRIDGE!

Most people who visit England's historic Stonehenge monument come away disappointed.

In photographs, the ancient whatever-it-is looks impressive with the sun shining through its stone gates and the majestic silence and all that.

But in reality, the sun never shines at all because that's how England is, and there's a huge freeway right next to the monument so all you hear is traffic, and the whole place is overrun with dirty hippies wearing hooded druid robes.

Luckily, there's a much better option.

This is recycling at its most creative. Truly, the artist should be very, very proud, if for no other reason than it keeps those loopy neo-Druids out of my way. Adam Horowitz is reported to be the artist. Hmmm, isn't he in Beastie Boys? O! How the mighty have fallen!

STONEFRIDGE! (detail)

COLOSSAL…shrimp

No, seriously!

Colossal Crustacean

News comes, via Sploid, that a biologist in Columbia has purchased the world's most incredibly ginormous, huge, lumbering, colossiod, towering

shrimp.

Says the biologist:

"This is the biggest species ever known here or even in literature! The big difference, which could also be harmful for us, is that this species is a predator and it could end native species!"

Nearly the size of a man's foot, this incredible monster was finally landed, after an unnamed and (no doubt) unnameable struggle, by innocent Columbian fishermen, momentarily ignorant of the cosmic shudders sent echoing to the very depths of the abyss where the blind idiot god Azathoth bubbles and blasphemes at the center of the universe for eternity, by their bumbling, oblivious capture of this, the very Fungi of Yuggoth.

Or black tiger prawn.

You say kebab, I say ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.