two out of three from Worth1000, and one stolen off a research website that must remain anonymous, for secrecy-keeping purposes, like. Can you find the real animal in the following?
The Punk Wasp
The Gay Hermit Crab
The Medusa of the North
Category Archives: Science
video from the grave: the Tasmanian Tiger
This is Benjamin, the last Tasmanian Tiger, also called a Thylacine. It died in captivity in 1936, which is a god-damned shame. Such a beautiful, intriguing animal; do I hafta explain the coolness factor here? It gets the Squid tag.
Like Nessie, Caddie, and Bigfoot, sightings are occasionally reported, but recently they’ve even been reported by confused tourists who had no idea there ever was such an animal, or even such a legend. Veddy interesting…
Alas, the video is skewed somehow, so the URL is here. Here’s a consolation pic:
Let’s try this again:
and here it is again, being annoyed by one of its keepers. ‘Nuther consolation pic. Nice dentistry, eh?
dance like a monkey
by the New York Dolls. Via BoingBoing.
SysAdmin Appreciation Day
Ladies and gentlemen, start your wireless devices.System Administrator Appreciation Day is coming up on Friday, the 28th of July.
Let’s be sure to show them all just how much they mean to us. No, not by forgetting they exist until a problem happens; that’s what we do every day!
from the site:
Get a cool gift for your favorite SysAdmin & help support SysAdminDay.com at the same time!
Cookies! Brownies! Beer! Wine! Fruit Baskets! Steaks! Electronics Gadgets!
Your SysAdmin will be so happy.Check out all these great gift ideas. When you
make a gift purchase from one of the merchants below, you will be helping to support this website. Note: You must click on the banner below and then actually make a purchase. Remember, you are suppose to be getting a gift for your SysAdmin.
We at the raincoaster blog suggest ESL lessons.
Operation Global Media Domination: award-winning roundup
I’d like to thank all the little people…before they turn on me.
Also the Generator Blog, from whence I stole this Web-award generator. Hey, no sense in waiting for the grass to grow, eh? I thought I’d give all those web-awarders a helping hand. That’s right; raincoaster is always thinking of others. So put your feet up, guys. I’ve gotcha covered.
Meanwhile, in Operation Global Media Domination news, I am happy to report that I have cracked the top 89,000 on Technorati, out of about 45 million blogs, and only since the second-last day of February, when I started the blog. Mother would be so proud. Thanks are particularly due all those Brits who have mistaken me for one of themselves, and a True Patriot at that. Look, I hate Tony Blair as much as any of you, but I also have extremely mixed feelings. It’s…it’s complicated, okay??? Oh yeah, and somebody came to the blog looking for BoJo Porn; try the Times.
The posts most responsible for this rush to the cranial summit of the blogosphere are, of course, Beautiful Agony and 101 Bottles of diet coke, 523 mentos, and 2 mad scientists. Baby Eagles are still big in parts of Cyberia, and some poor, demented dude keeps hitting the blog every damn day looking for Charo porn and finding only a cool, Up With Queers music video. Speaking of gays, Ernest and Bertram went viral for a day or so, landing on a couple of forums across the ocean until the bandwidth got bustickated or whatever it is that happens to bandwidth; short form, E&B viral campaign snipped in the bud, dammit!!!
The latest potentially-viral stars are a couple of YouTubers: Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager, the sad tale of Darth‘s loserish brother’s humdrum life, and Paris Hilton stewing, nearly nekkid, in poop soup. Then there’s the Found Porn Slideshow, always a big hit with the Neanderthals.
The only serious post that’s showing any longevity is From Israel, With Love, the Update which is good as the MSM and much of the blogosphere including BoingBoing seems to have got the story substantially wrong, even after corrections.
So that’s all for this edition of Operation Global Media Domination, other than to say that going offline for a few days actually increased the hits. When I went on vacation, my “take it for granted” number of hits was 300. Now it’s 650.
I should take more vacations.
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