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You can see what you’d look like too (if you were graduating from high school sometime between 1950 to 2000 on Yearbook Yourself). Sadly, i do not look so good with what I imagine is the female version of the mullet.

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• Lonesome George is the last known Pinta Island Tortoise. There may never be another tortoise of his subspeices after George. However, George has recently mated with a female of a similar species of Galápagos Tortoise. If the eggs hatch, the offspring would be ‘intergrades’. (via mefi)
• Certain forms of cancer are contagious and can be transmitted from animal to animal:
  

  Cancer is not an infectious disease. And the axiom is (usually) correct. But there are exceptions. Those exceptions point toward a broader reality that scientists have begun to explore: Cancers, like species, evolve. And one way they can evolve is toward the capacity to be transmitted between individuals.

  (via bb)

• The Berkeley Pit, one of the largest Superfund sites, is an abandoned copper mine in Montana that has flooded and become extremely acidic. No plants or animals were thought to be able to live in it, but single-celled algae was found living in the pit in 1995. Since then, more than 160 species of extremophiles have been discovered in the pit. From the wiki:
  

  New fungal and bacterial species have been found to have adapted to the harsh conditions inside the pit. Intense competition for the limited resources caused these species to evolve the production of highly toxic compounds to improve survivability; natural products such as Berkeleydione, berkeleytrione and Berkeley acid have been isolated from these organisms which show selective activity against cancer cell lines.

• Fraternal twins can have multiple fathers. This is known as heteropaternal superfecundation and is rare in humans, but more common in other animals. Dogs and cats can have ‘multiple-sired litters’. (via Jess)
• Viruses can infect other viruses. This supports the idea that viruses are alive. (via ./)
• Bonus random thing: A wholphin is a hybrid between a bottlenose dolphin and a ‘false killer whale’, which is also a species of dolphin. Wholphin is also the name of McSweeney’s DVD Magazine of Unseen Films. We’ve been watching these on KenFlix, and they are awesome. I love the ’secret’ films hidden in the DVD title animations.
  

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Tagged: 5randomthings , cancer , LonsomeGeorge , tortoise , virus , wholphin

LA may have pot vending machines, but Missouri has Tiki Rings!, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.

If only I had some quarters…

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This is a photo of my friend Deep from many halloweens ago. I just wanted to post it here because this photo made my day today. Best costume EVER! :-)

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I think it’s time for our semi-annual lobster event. Killing My Lobster’s new show is at the ODC every Friday through December 8. They were awesome last year. We should go!

More info here.

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Bob, Shag and I are trying to move our book scanning hardware to Ubuntu 7.10 - the Gutsy Gibbon. It’s a ridiculous process, and our hardware is crap. Here are some notes:

• chai:20 (4:20) - Started up the installer app on the live cd. Unfortuantely the screen rez is 800×600, so we can’t see the important back/next/ok buttons on the bottom of the installer panel. What kind of installer requires greater than 800×600 screen rez?
• chai:23 - Somehow, by logging the Live CD user out and fucking with the screen rez, we got the screen to display a larger screen res, but we can’t see the entire desktop on our screen. Moving the mouse around seems to pan the desktop, which would kinda work, if we could see the mouse cursor.
• chai:25 - We are asked for the timezone, and San Francisco isn’t one of the available options. Los Angeles is. However, we opt to move to La Paz.
• chai:30 - It is now officially time for chai.
• chai:40 - We have found that starting a lot of xeyes processes lets us estimate where the invisible mouse cursor should be. There are fifty eyeballs on our screen
• chai:45 - Bob starts playing minesweeper
• chai:48 - Someone figures out that this version of xeyes lets us resize the window, so there is a GIANT EYEBALL staring at me
• chai:50 - Installation done, rebooting!
• Mouse works after reboot! Now to try and scan books!
  

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Tagged: shag , ubuntu , xeyes

lest your butt prints cause irreparable damage…

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Bob sent me an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Neither of us have read the article (although Bob insists that he has read the Journal and even understood several of the words). This particular article might (or might not, we haven’t actually read it) claim that having fat friends can kill you. It includes a pretty animation.

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You know how they have Camel Bookmobiles in Kenya? Well, in Venezuela they have Mule Bookmobiles! Bibilomu-u-u-u-las!!!

via BB.

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Tagged: library

Here is a short video of Zara and Annie snuggling while Ziggy looks on from the saftey of Jess’ lap:

Link to larger version

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Bob, Shag, and I made this SkyMaul-inspired remix of this Attribution2.0-licensed image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nantaskart/61707032/

Hang it in your office!

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Confused? A bit of an explaination:

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via a mefi comment:

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apparently the biggest! in the WORLD! so big that the vortex above it caused several helicopter crashes. there are more pics of this crazy hole over here.

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You know the fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, in which the Tortoise wins the race, but only because of the Hare’s sinful overconfidence? Well, in the story of Tortoise and the Kat, the Tortoise wins because Tortoises are completely fucking badass! See for yourself!

See also:

• Bunny vs Snake!
• Chicken vs Bunny!
• Eight puppys vs Kat!
• Baby duck feeding the fish!

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I remember seeing Mammenschanz on the Muppet Show when I was much younger… It was the strangest and most surreal thing I had seen at the time, and memories of a creepy long-limbed spider-person has been hiding in the back of my brain for a long time. I stumbled upon this MetaFilter post and the memories came rushing back.. So, apparently the Mammenschanz are real and not some kind of half-remembered wonderful nightmare.

The Muppet Show was amazing. I wonder if kids’ shows these days are of the same caliber…

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Shasha recently got a couple of very cute kitty kats! They like to sit on her head!

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We found Ice-Bat at Archimage in Rochester, and brought him home to live with us. We didn’t know how Zara and Ice-Bat would get along, but they’ve become fast friends!

More pics!

Also, don’t let your dog play with things that aren’t dog toys. It is dangerous.

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Peliom didn’t believe me when I told him I saw a bunny attack a snake, so here it is…proof!

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A pair of Great Horned owls relocated to Bernal hill a couple months ago. Bernal resident Art has been taking beautiful pics of The Neighborhood Owls!

(via)

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Spotted while on my bike somewhere near Rodeo Beach today. I didn’t see any frogs though.

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I never understood what pair programming was until now. Glad someone drew a picture for me. (found on Pivotal blabs).

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The Camel Bookmobile in Kenya is the best thing I’ve seen all day! Check out the pictures, video, donation info, and amazon wishlist. They need donations of books in English and Swahili. You can ship eleven pounds of your old books to them for $11.55. (via boingboing)

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My life is saga of bad customer service/customer experiences. This morning, the latest culprit was Time-Warner Cable. Assholes. My plan to decompress from the stress of the day was to pop in a netflix movie and chill out before going to sleep. I had just rented Rang De Basanti, which I had been looking forward to watching for a while. However, when I put it in my playstation, it turned out to be an audio CD!!! They gave me the soundtrack!!! Now, you may say, “Bobslobster, this soundtrack looks pretty good, maybe you should make some lemonade out of this lemon and give it a listen?

Well, Mr. Smart Guy, it just so happens that I just went to India, a country of 1 billion people, and came back with exactly 3 cds. One of which was the SOUNDTRACK TO RANG DE BASANTI!!!!!!!

ARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! NETFLIX. IS. SCREWING. ME.

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