To commemorate the Day After Black History Month, Gawker has posted a handy-dandy guide to Wigger Culture. Don’t know what a Wigger is? Think Ali G…crossed with KFed. Don’t know who KFed is? Lucky you.
And now, we bring you The Assimilated Negro’s Gawker report on Wigger Culture.
Abe and Ike; pretty compelling, no?
Blog posts featuring Giant Squid are precisely half as good for hits as Stephen Hawking singing. Okay, live and learn. Strange that the squid fanbase has a hard time getting online, given all the Worldcom cables just lying all over the ocean floor. C’mon invertebrates, give it up for raincoaster!
For some, it’s the British Museum. For some, Buckingham Palace.
For me, it’s this
It is one of the most mysterious animals on the planet – no one knows how it moves, where it lives, what it eats or how it reproduces. And now members of the public can see one for themselves.
Yesterday the most complete giant squid ever found was put on display at the Natural History Museum’s Darwin Centre in London.
Ain’t nuthin like the world’s largest serving of calamari to get me checking airfare.
I must be. First Diary-x, now this:
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I’ve killed Two Dollar Radio.
And strikey, and killey and eatey. But most of all, Giant Squid (note meek and respectful capitalization, any giant squid who may be reading this) kick assy!
I don’t know why I am so fascinated by these critters, but there is nothing that starts my day better than a hot cup of coffee and a paper on Giant Squid from the Royal Society, particularly if it includes, as this one does, the word “cloning.”
Kewl.
Here, we show the first wild images of a giant squid in its natural environment. Recovery of a severed tentacle confirmed both identification and scale of the squid (greater than 8m). Architeuthis appears to be a much more active predator than previously suspected, using its elongate feeding tentacles to strike and tangle prey.
Extraction, amplification, cloning and sequencing methods follow Carlini & Graves (1999) and Kano & Kase (2004).
The recovered section of tentacle was still functioning, with the large suckers of the tentacle club repeatedly gripping the boat deck and any offered fingers (figure 3f)…The longest giant squid on record was 18m total length (Clarke 1969).
