name the car quiz

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“we eliminated the pool and the ballroom”

Or why I love the onion…

Obama Axes Pentagon Plan To Build Billion Dollar Tank In Shape Of Dragon

secret to a good marriage

this one is for gord

 You have been found out…

news you can use

The last thirty seconds or so with the ‘deputy press secretary’ are priceless….

Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny’s

http://www.theonion.com

ruv, true ruv….

….mixing a little princess bride with North Korea, how bad can it be?

junior goes (virtually) sailing

if junior sailed in meatspace he might look like this?

Being by nature a landlubber –  perhaps reinforced by being employed as ballast whist the parental unit’s enjoyed their sailing excursions back in the day –  I hadn’t considered sailing as an entertaining on-line game until Edward the Corgi sorted me out in this department.

It’s fun, it’s mildly addicting (and goodness knows junior needs no excuse) and you can go get your boat and join the round the world race here…..

if the kingston sheep dog trials met Samsung TV…

… you would get shepherding for the netgeneration.

 

viral funkiness

Doing my part to add to the viral thingy….

Tel Aviv musician Kutiman, who styles himself as a “psychedelic funk architect” has designed and constructed a doozy of a musical mashup. His Internet album Thru You, consisting of remixed youtube music videos completely made out of remixed YouTube footage

its timely – and its fun (go get your own)

clicky, clicky…..

first, evil monkeys, now this….crow muggings!

Crows… what can’t they do?

• The scene: a traffic light crossing on a university campus in Japan.  Carrion crows and humans line up patiently, waiting for the traffic to halt.  When the lights change, the birds hop in front of the cars and place walnuts, which they picked from the adjoining trees, on the road.  After the lights turn green again, the birds fly away and vehicles drive over the nuts, cracking them open.  Finally, when it’s time to cross again, the crows join the pedestrians and pick up their meal.  If the cars miss the nuts, the birds sometimes hop back and put them somewhere else on the road. Or they sit on electricity wires and drop them in front of vehicles.

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• Don’t be surprised if you start to see crows on corners begging for change, or rats along the sides of roads looking for aluminum cans:

Vending Machine for Crows, by Claire Trageser, NY Times: In June, Josh Klein revealed his master’s-thesis project to a flock of crows at the Binghamton Zoo in south-central New York State.  The New York University graduate student offered the birds … peanuts from a … vending machine he’d created… The Binghamton crows quickly learned that dropping nickels and dimes into the slot produced peanuts, and the most resourceful members of the flock began looking for more coins.  Within a month, Klein had a flock of crows scouring the ground for loose change. …

Just imagine if they had opposable thumbs!  Be afraid, very afraid……

On a related note, I seem to remember a news item regarding yet another adaptive behaviour of these most remarkable beasts.  Apparently, crows have figured out how to stay warm above the arctic circle – roost on street lights.  Most street lamps are activated by light sensors which switch on under low light conditions.  Crows have figured out if they roost on top of the lamps themselves, the light will stay on generating warmth in what would otherwise be a lethally harsh environment for them.

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100% workplace safe…..

Word of the Day

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in Germany, much the same. Of course one must learn the language first; so to that end – the word of the day.

Stammtisch: a table reserved for regulars. Found in gasthouse restaurants, often next to the fireplace. A social faux pas for tourists to assume that they may sit at this table even if it is empty at the time.