“You live in the WHAT house?”

“The Poop House. Shut up.”

[Found here; h/t Nate L.]

Sad Day Baby Ray

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 707 – Doing the Wubba Wubba Dance, Drive-Thru Oil Change & A Moth Ball

[Found here, here and here.]

Predatory Polynoid Polychaete

[Predatory Polynoid polychaete (scale worm) image found in here. Related posts here.]

13 Hair Don’ts

[All found via Reddit.]

Dorkworm of the Deep

Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm Viewed Under An Electron Microscope. Nicholas Gayet 2015

Photograph by Nicolas Gayet of the Paulo Bonifacio lab was a 2015 FEI contest winner.

Polychaetes worms are fascinating. One species are called “Zombie Worms” and includes the Osedax mucofloris, discovered in 2005. Its name translates to “bone-eating snot flower.”

[Image found here.]

Goose Down

[Found here. Related post here.]

Naufrageous Hot Links

Let Your Love Run To Me, Larry Dale (1960)Ennis L. Lower (aka Larry Dale Matthews, aka Larry Dale) had a recording career that ran from 1952 through 1987, both under his own aliases and with other notables, including Bob Gaddy, Paul “Hucklebuck” Williams, Big Red McHouston, Champion Jack DuPree, Cootie WilliamsBobby Bland, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee.

Dog tag.

Please try to explain this.

Jill Trent — Science Sleuth.

Octopi punch fish. Really. They do.

Imagine you’re at a campfire in Alaska.

No more private bank deposit accounts?

Dance Me to the End of Love – Madeleine Peyroux

A mom informed a Fairfax Virginia school board of the pornography in their high school library, so they amended school policy.

Drawbacks Of Electric Vehicles Drivers Overlook [h/t Steve M.]

[Top image: That’s a male Lowland Nyala, and they bark. Image found in here.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Mr. Edison’s Hands

The Only Authentic Photograph of Mr. Edison’s Hands Ever Taken Publisht Here for the First Time. The Spots on the Hands Are Chemical Stains Which Could Not Be Washt off at the Time the Picture Was Taken.
IF THE WORLD WERE CALLED UPON TO MAKE AN INVENTORY OF WHAT MR. EDISON’S HANDS ACTUALLY WROUGHT IN ENRICHING THIS PLANET, THERE WOULD NOT BE GOLD ENOUGH TO PAY HIM.
Copyright by E. P. Co., 1919 All rights reserved.

[Image from Electrical Experimenter Magazine,  December 1919, p. 20.]