More animal madness: there are apparently a couple species of non-native carp which are starting to appear in Missouri rivers, and are causing problems, because they like to jump out of the water:
A state fisheries biologist motoring near Columbia had a filling knocked out of his tooth by a high-flying fish that struck him on […]

This is sort of funny about a zoo in Rochester where like this orangutan hugged a zookeeper and wouldn’t let him go for a long time, and then finally did, and the staff shot him with a tranqulizer gun. According to the article’s concluding sentence: “The orangutan was knocked out for up to four hours, […]

Apparently, doctors in Beijing just operated on some little baby who had a “parasitic third leg” growing out of her back. They say that it was from her undeveloped twin, which fused with her earlier on in their fetal development. And that the parasitic third leg was draining away nutrients from her - basically, the […]

My brother came into town last night. While driving back and forth from our sister’s place, we talked about all kinds of stuff. I was telling him about the article I wrote about superheroes and whatnot the other day and talking about how Batman/Wolverine was my favorite character. And he was saying that his was […]

Stole this straight up from As Above. It’s about how blogging is like how ants find food, and release pheromones so that other ants can find the trail and the food source. “Good bloggers are like ants: they work hard to find news, and then they drop weblog-pheromones so that other bloggers can get in […]