Category: Odd
Fang Blenny
I presume that’s the skull of a fang blennie, and one species injects an opioid venom to mess with their predators’ brains.
The fang blennies have, generally speaking, evolved into rascals. Their ancestor probably used its fangs to scoop flesh out of bigger fish, much like the non-venomous bluestriped fang blenny does today. It’s a visual mimic of a cleaner fish, which allows it to get in close without raising an alarm. Then it strikes. “A total asshole move, of course, since that bigger fish is going to take this out on the next innocent cleaner wrasse it encounters,” says biologist and study co-author Bryan Fry of the University of Queensland.
Holy Crap. I want one.
This disturbs me.
[Found on a small cutting board in our kitchen.]
Syncopated Polyrhythmic Hot Links
Mark Twain’s study was designed to simulate the pilot house of a Mississippi steamboat.
Rogue Punctuation Nazi strikes after-hours in Bristol, England. He specializes in fixing apostrophe errors on business signs.
Need a Computer Science paper at the last minute? This generator is for you.
I knew that rebooting and hitting F8 gets you into safe mode for trouble shooting. Here’s what the other keyboard function keys do.
“The Frog Survey Letter” went viral a couple years ago.
Never heard of Hooverball? Now you have.
Click “play.”
Like early jazz? You’ll love this free download of 1920s recordings. It’s six hours of syncopated awesome.
[Top image found here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No.478 – Hare Transporter, Prep School Flappers & Buster Keaton
Yoneji Inamura’s Contribution To The World: 20,000 Beetles
Although [Yoneji] Inamura created several sculptures out of beetles, he spent 6 years in the 1970s constructing this one, which has become his masterpiece and the largest sculpture he ever made. When it was done he donated it to the city.
The sculpture, made from rhinoceros beetles, winged jewel beetles, drone beetles, longhorn beetles and other types of local beetles, depicts the senju kannon bosatsu (1000-armed bodhisattva), a popular Buddhist deity in Japan.
[Click on the smaller images to enlarge. More here, found here. Somewhat related posts here.]
Well-Balanced Photography
Monday Morning Already? Woof.
[Found here.]
Meretricious Rhadamanthine Hot Links
Johnny Rotten weighs in on Briexit… and Donald Trump.
Roger Daltrey weighs in on Briexit… and Donald Trump.
Earliest known definition of “cocktail” as a beverage appeared in 1803. The actual origins of the word are disputed; here’s one analysis.
Groucho Marx once hawked cocktail napkins.
Ever wonder why cocktails are served in different glasses? Me neither.
No idea what the 1927 Jiggling Chair was supposed to remedy.
Attempted Escape of the Maniac from The Wild Witch of the Heath, 1841.
This is mildly amusing. Move your curser, then do it real fast.
From the You Gotta Be Kidding Me Department:
Cloned Woolly Mammoths are planned to be introduced to an Arctic Siberian park in order to stop “global warming climate change.”
Horrific April Fools Day pranks of the 19th Century, and some were lethal. More pranks here.
[Top: Original image of the TV-HiFi console hottie found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 