Via urbpan : Nice vermin PR article on Cracked. Points of interest (to me, anyway): 1. I have kept two of the five critters on the main banner as pets (three if you count the E. coli .), and I spent a good year with mosquitos (albeit dead ones). Now I just need to make friends with some wasps so I can win the vermin bingo. 2. The first mosquito photo is not a mosquito . It's a crane fly...

If you're wondering about the sudden interest in healthy foods, there are two main reasons. First, I've become a vegetarian (at least until I can find a source of cruelty-free meat. Even then, I may give up on beef and pork). I blame this entry for my vegetarianism: http://urbpan.livejournal.com/833099.html (No hard feelings, urbpan .) Also, the idea of Community Supported Agriculture has...

urbpan ran a nature walk this past sunday. here are a few of the pictures i took. hooray the catbirds are back! there's also an art exhibit going on in the park right now (through the end of june). this piece is my favorite.

Muddy River , Boston Welcome, to anyone who may have found this comm in the lj spotlight! Feel free to join, and to post pictures, questions, discussions, links, etc. We mostly post pictures we took ourselves, and if you do that, please indicate what city the picture was taken in. You can also tag your post with the name of the city, and the name of the plant or animal in the picture (if any)....

Our little community is about to be in the livejournal spotlight! This is a nice, good thing, but we should brace ourselves for about 20 posts a day of blurry cellphone pictures of cats and tulips in people's back yards. I've been through this before, and it's kind of overwhelming, but it's kind of fun too. We can direct bug and spider queries to whats_that_bug and entomology and...

My wife's coworker gave her a redwood burl .  If, as seems increasingly likely, we move to Portland , and the burl survives and grows into a happy little plant, would it survive outside?  Would it become a little sequoia in our yard? The current natural range of the tree stops at the southern coast of Oregon.  What is the limiting factor that prevents it from living in the Portland area, or for...

Today is a cephalopod day. I showed an image of a "dumbo octopus" to thetotorocatbus and he said, " Grimpoteuthis !" Of course I had to rush off and read more about the genus. Google is my best friend. After 10 minutes of speed-reading and speed-surfing, I discovered the following not-so-related fun things: Trilobite cookies by Mr. Velocipede ( Flickr ). Ammonite pastries...

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(This is a review I wrote some time ago.  The BBT link to it is not working, so I'm republishing it here.) If they can put a man on the moon, why can’t they send a whole crew up to the sun to die horribly?  In Sunshine , our closest star is dying, and so naturally a giant bomb will save it.  Send a space ship up with an explosive the size of New York and load up Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, and...

Forgot to do this first thing on the 1st - d'oh Top Commenters on drhoz 's LiveJournal (Self and anonymous comments excluded from rankings) 1 tzisorey 1171 2 calafin 985 3 wirrrn 623 4 myrystyr 538 5 mrteufel 338 6 kateorman 262 7 ralmiska...