Category: Bird Stuff

Medieval WTF

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A long, long time ago this painting made complete sense.

There’s a wood-fired forge, anvils, metal working tools, a peacock, a gryphon(?!) a deer and a bigass possum watching a naked man without genitalia cringe as a woman takes an axe to a parrot while the wind is blowing.

It’s an illustration from a French manuscript entitled The Personification of Nature Making Birds, Animals and People [ca. 1405].

Okay, so Mother Nature had already finished creating The Birds,  The Animals and at least one of The People, but then she realized that the poor guy needed a pecker. If anyone else has a better analysis, post it, because I’m done here.

[Image found here.]

Yeah. I heard you the first time.

grackle

[Photo taken from a cool birdfeeder camera, found here via here.]

Postprandial Hot Links

scaregoose

On 24 January, Mozilla disabled the popular “Web Of Trust” (WOT) add-on to the Firefox browser due to security / privacy breaches. Other browsers that allow the add-on (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, etc.) are affected as well. The problem was verified by a German team last November, and has yet to be remedied by the WOT engineers.

Lightning strikes as seen from space.

Lightning strikes caused by a volcano.

Bears with chainsaws. Some of the images are very cool.

Hunting snakes in the ‘Glades: Professional snake trackers were brought in from India to help with a python problem.

Amazing makeup timelapse [via].

Anxiolytic effect of hepatocyte growth factor infused into rat brain. I typed in some random letters into a Google search to find this gem.

#NotMySuperbowl is hilarious.

[No, that’s not a coyote carcass on a stake in the top picture. It’s a scaregoose. Really. Story here, via here.]

Halloween Demon Duckies

THIS is how you get 8 year old boys to take a bath.

[Images found here; related posts here and here. Oh, and also here.]

WTFunction?

function-rubber-duck

[Found here via here, and TIMB has been officially notified.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 454 – Harris’ Hawk, KongPong & Beach Bull

harris-hawk

king-kong-ping-pong

beach-bull

[Found here, here and here.]

Nature’s Custom Pinstripes

Custom Pinstripes

Yeah, this got posted a day ahead of schedule. Posting a stupid cat pic and a stupid bird pic on the same day disrupts blog karma big time. Lo siento un poco.

[Found here.]

Don’t bicycle and don’t sprinkle fleas on birds.

Don't Do It

NIE SOLIĆ GOŁĘBI is Polish for NO SALT PIGEONS.

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 431 – Pool Prank, Dog Lips & Mr. T’s Adjustable ‘Hawk

Pool Prank

DogFlapping

Mr. T

[Found here, here and here.]

Alfred Hitchcock’s Storyboards

Storyboards are planning tools, cartoon sketches that depict critical or pertinent scenes in animation, movies (and even amusement park rides). It’s an easy editing process for something that has yet to be filmed, but you already knew that, ya? Have you seen any? Check out these thumbnails.

Jamaica Inn 1936
Jamaica Inn 1936.

Saboteur 1942

Saboteur 1942 2
Saboteur 1942.

Vertigo 1958
Vertigo 1958.

The Birds 1963
The Birds 1963.

Marnie 1964
Marnie 1964.

Family Plot 1976
Family Plot 1976.

Alfred Hitchcock used storyboards for all his movies, and there’s a nice collection here [via].