A great example of the intrinsic supercoolosity of the underwater world. You’ve probably seen the octopus at the end before, because it was all over the net two years ago (and on Pharyngula last year) but it’s worth watching again. The part with the mating squid explains so much, don’t you think?
Bear porn.
You know you want it. It makes you feel dirty and all tingly inside, and the rougher and rawer it is, the better you like it. Here, in lieu of a real, effort-taking blog post (since I’m currently under the weather and, it feels like, Mount Olympus as well) is a random selection of naked, underage panda bears in compromising positions for your amusement.
and the immortal nekkid kiddie panda bear wrestling vid:
bonus hawt teenage panda-bear-on-panda-bear action:
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Next year what will it be? Return of Under the Planet of Invasion of the Jellyfish?
As our more protoplasmic readers will be aware, we at the ol’ raincoaster blog have long been fascinated by all things gigantic, digusting, potentially fatal, and aquatic. So we were on the Japanese Invasion of the Giant Jellyfish like deep fried on calamari.
As the swallows return to Capistrano once per year, so too the Giant Nomura Jellyfish return to the teeming waters of the Sea of Japan each Autumn, welcomed by divers and attacked by fishing companies, much as the gentle harbour seal is persecuted from one end of the sea to the other. How petty! What are a few nets, a few spoiled, poisoned, and slimed catches, when compared to the awe-inspiring sight of these throbbing, pulsing masses of brainless protoplasm, lurching quietly through the ocean depths? As the great George Bernard Shaw said, great beauty justifies any sacrifice, and a true artist would slay his own grandmother to create it; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.
Manabu Nakamata, a 38-year-old diver from Nagoya and an admirer of the monster jellyfish, says, “They are surprisingly hard to the touch. They are big, and extremely impressive.” Big indeed — Echizen kurage can grow up to 2 meters (6 ft. 7 in.) in diameter and weigh up to 200 kilograms (440 lb.) each.
But what’s a Japanese giant misunderstood monster story without some doomed-to-fail, high-tech weaponry, the use of which teaches valuable, and humbling, lessons about science’s essential futility? Eh? I ask you that!
In the latest move in the war on jellyfish, Fukui prefecture is developing new and efficient weapons designed to pulverize those that threaten their shores.
Oh, this should end well.
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As our devoted stalkers are aware, some time ago the ol’ raincoaster, through no fault of her own, joined the ranks of the gainfully employed. It was a Teeny disruption, which, like so many an apparently-minor event, began a slide down a slippery slope; she may even end up respectable one day!
In the course of such employment, she not infrequently stumbles across posts of genuine interest, sprinkled between the millions generic “Britney Does Something Scandalous/Angelina Walks On Water, Gives It To Dehydrated Africans” headlines.
This post by the Mr. Henry on the Manolofood blog is just such an one.
Walrus. Fucking. Turducken. Sushi.
Aged walrus fucking turducken sushi.
Pass teh bucket!
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