Can many humans pitch-in to write a single novel? I’m guessing it’s going to be a tad disjointed. “Crowdsourcing. The Wisdom of the crowds. Social networking. Collaborative enterprise.” works best for wikipedia.
“A Million Penguins is an experiment in creative writing and community. Anyone can join in. Anyone can write. Anyone can edit.”
link (via trendhunter)
Unfortunately it’s non-alcoholic, so my dog will be sticking to Miller High Life. It’s supposedly fit for humans, so I’m guessing it doesn’t taste like dog anus and garbage.
link (via mojo nixon and thanks mr larry)
Some amazing creations. Includes instructions so you can make your own.
Also see these cool olive penquins. A friend made them for a holiday party, they actually looked even better as they also had red pepper scarves.
“FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. — A giant wild hog boasted to be bigger than the near-mythical “Hogzilla” caught in southern Georgia a few years ago has been killed in a suburban Atlanta neighborhood.
The hog hung snout down from a tree Friday in William Coursey’s front yard, not far from where the avid hunter said he shot the beast. He said he hauled it to a truck weight station, which recorded the hairy hog at 1,100 pounds.”
Hogzilla (pictured) was estimated to be about 800 lbs. So add over a third of it’s body size to this picture and that’s this new hog!
“Surumail postcards consist of dried surume squid (Todarodes pacificus), the local seafood specialty. The squid jerky is flattened and vacuum-packed into the shape of a postcard, and an adhesive label is included for the postage, delivery address and a short message.”
A Japanese post office sells them for $3, but it’s unclear as to whether they are available outside of Japan.
link (via pink tentacle)
Having some time to kill on Saturday, I visited Seaworld. Having never been, I expected the usual Disney crap. For the most part I was right, $70 tickets, a high amount of asians and strollers. I was happy to see that almost every exhibit stressed helping the animals. Even the dogs and cats in the pet circus (which had cats and rats living in peace!) were adopted from local animal shelters. Then there was Shamu.
They went very spiritual with the show. Four large, sometimes twirling, video screens told the story of the trainer who had a killer whale encounter as a child and grew up to surf the likes of Shamu in an Orlando pool! A series of odd dances and chants creeped me out. On the way out of the stadium SeaWorld employees offered necklaces featured in the ‘Believe’ video. Unlike the original hand-carved version, these had a very visible ‘Made in China’ sticker.
update: Anheuser-Busch had a lot of signs around Seaworld. They were major sponsors, along with SouthWest Airlines and some others companies. Today I accidentally failed an age check on Bud’s crowntown.tv, it redirected to a page of Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks, which included a banner of Shamu’s Believe show.
Confused Texan Craig Baker held pig races and a cookout to protest an Islamic association’s plans to build a mosque next to his property. Apparently he first got angry when they asked him to move his cows off their property. He thought they also meant off his own property. Despite conceding that the muslims weren’t after his land and the association stating the pig race doesn’t offend them, Baker said it had gone too far and he’d be a laughingstock if he cancelled the event. Kind of backfired.
Be sure to check out the video for easily the hottest woman I’ve seen sporting a burka.
Off to Lake Louisa for the next two days (yes the best camping in Florida is in the dead of winter).
Then on New Years Day, heading into Orlando for the Capital One Bowl. Still debating whether a badger or a razorback would win if they met in the wild.
You’ve probably heard the story about the world’s tallest man saving the dolphin by digging in it’s stomach, but believe it or not, it’s been done before!
from a veterinarian acquaintance:
“Been there done that-over 20 years ago. I used to work at a place in CA near SF called Marineworld. One of our dolphins swallowed a long metal bolt after a workman accidentally dropped it into their pool. We called up the Warriors NBA team and their center, Clifford Ray (who remembers him?) came down and stuck his long arm down the dolphin’s throat and pulled out the bolt. And as a bonus he started dating our PR lady-you go Cliff !!”
update: while searching for an image, I found this story covered on deadspin a year ago!
“The chicken is a metaphor for human existence and the egg is a metaphor for the world and the laboratory of the future”
Koen Vanmechelen
Growing up around chickens, I enjoyed “The Accident” Though a little scary and disturbing (largely the cockfighting video).
The below ‘painting’ was made with eggs, feathers (as well as a few other ingredients) and I swear I could smell it.
more pics after the jump
I happened upon this exhibit while looking for food in Miami’s Design District. Titled “The Protectors” and “Animal Powers”
“Peter Seidler exhibits an ecstatic presentation of militarized beings, manufactured objects internalize the pre-industrial order and present material instantiations of immaterial systems. The seed vocabulary for this work connects several systems of language, iconography, and technology in a new turbulence: the language of twenty-first-century science fiction fantasy, the wrathful deities of the Himalayas, contemporary weapon systems, and classical statuary. The wrathful deity statues of earlier eras sought to depict enlightened or uplifted forms of aggression in warrior cultures.”
Presented by Foundation 2021
Two more photos after the jump:
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For now 250 lb, 45-year-old Adrian Apgar is alive, but he’s in rough condition. The alligator has probably already been killed.
link (photo update via boingboing)
Chill to soothe tired eyes and reduce eye puffiness. Warm to relive sinus pressure or just for a nap. The taxidermist stuffed this guy with lavender, chamomile and flax seed(for weight).
Also available in cat.
