Flickr Photo Download: Platforming

This cormorant is clearly in training to be a game sprite.

It’s easy to forget sometimes that before there was email spam, there was fax spam:

Is it too soon to start making godzilla references? Probably, huh.

In the wake of yesterday’s earthquakes, Japan is today reporting that leaks at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant are worse than first reported.

In addition to a leak of radioactive water into the Sea of Japan, reports say that drums with nuclear waste lost their lids [...]

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Every so often I find myself going for a longish walk; frequently this takes the course of walking somewhere that I would normally use some other transportation to get to; occasionally I just wind up walking nowhere in particular. Today, even though I’ve been feeling fairly sick for the better part of a [...]

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this here yet, but I recently got some pretty awesome (for me, anyway) images of our friend the Egyptian goose at work.

See also the flickr set I just mentioned in the last post. There are some other good shots of the egyptian, along with a sampling of cormorants, egrets, herons, [...]

I’ve been, and I quote here, blog-meme-tagged, by the artist formerly known as Uncle Jazzbeau. I’m supposed to state the rules now, although I’m 100% sure that I won’t be able to remain in compliance with them.

1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits [...]

The BBC news story quotes a local woman, Suad Hussain, who claims to have been attacked by one of these creatures: “My husband hurried to shoot it but it was as swift as a deer”

Are the BBC tapping the elderly to do their translating, or did this woman learn an awesomely old-fashioned version of English? [...]