Archive for August, 2008

A real macropod

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Bigfoot found - for real?
If this is true, it’s earth-shattering stuff.
Bigfoot in a freezer?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
BIGFOOT BODY FOUND
DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a
PRESS CONFERENCE
to be held on
Date: Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: From 12Noon-1:00pm
Place: Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto (A Crown Plaza Resort) 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306
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Recent environmental news

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Brown tree snakes destroying more than just Guam’s birds
A brown tree snake
In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators. Unchecked for many years, the snakes caused the extinction of nearly every native


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The Stewed Thoughts match-making service

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

This is a message directed at the hundreds of single guys who read this blog daily. A good friend of mine… Well, we’ve only just met recently, but she’s sent me a couple of dozen emails since last night so it feels like we’ve been friends for ages… Anyway, this lovely young woman - Oksana


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SMOT - spam message of today

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

From: Emmett Ochoa
Who do you turn to when the only person in the world that can stop you from crying, is exactly the one making you cry?


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An interesting take on climate change

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Some people are apparently welcoming climate change. Grape growers in Austria (note: that’s a little country in Europe, not a huge mass of land keeping the Indian and Pacific oceans separate) have found the warmer conditions to be quite beneficial.


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Picture of a modern-day thylacine?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

A striped mammal has been photographed by a camera trap set in a remote forest. Is this the sole surviving thylacine? Unfortunately not, as this Edge of Existence blog post shows.


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Google Maps Australia gets StreetView

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Search engine giant Google has today introduced StreetView into its online mapping system. While users have long been able to view maps and satellite imagery for specific locations, StreetView now allows users to go on a virtual tour of many streets by providing images taken from car-mounted cameras.
Have a look at this example. Click on


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Tortoise Porn

Monday, August 4th, 2008

In the Galapagos Islands, there lives a lonely boy. Well, he’s at least 60, so we can’t really call him a boy. He’s lonely not for want of trying on the part of his neighbours. Many girls have been offered to him, but he’s refused all of them. That is, until now. Possibly.
Lonesome George, believed


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