Birdy
Posted in nature on July 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The early bird catches the, er … He must be really hungry. (Baghdad pet market.)
Posted in nature on July 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The early bird catches the, er … He must be really hungry. (Baghdad pet market.)
Posted in nature, news on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
my favorite headline of the day.
BBC: Great tits cope well with warming
Posted in Art, found, nature on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
He looks pretty fierce. Look at the sense of determination. Note the sharp fangs and ease of movement through the water.
Found on FFFFOUND.
Posted in books, cooking, food, nature on January 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Before there was Harold McGee’s On Food & Cooking and before Michael Ruhlman’s The Elements of Cooking there was The Grocer’s Encyclopedia by Aretemas Ward. This extensive work from 1911 is available online for free here.
Posted in found, nature, photography, san francisco on July 16th, 2007 No Comments »
So the pigeons lost.
I was walking home from work tonight and I just happened to notice this enormous seagull going after this nasty pigeons carcass. Pretty damn disgusting, but that’s the way of nature I suppose. On one hand, I was kind of cheering for the gull since I can’t stand filthy little pigeons, but [...]
Posted in at work, found, nature, san francisco on July 13th, 2007 No Comments »
These mushrooms magically appeared in a small plant pot at work. They are bright yellow and most likely very poisonous. Please do not touch.
Previously: Bacteria Art
Posted in nature, photography, texas on June 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Hey. Do you like donkeys, but hate the big-donkey mess? Do you love country music? How about animated gifs? Really? How about a miniature donkey farm that produces top quality mini-donkeys (minidonks) named after classic country musicians like George Jones and Garth Brooks? Oh man, have I got a site for you. It’s called Minidonk.com
Tips [...]
Posted in at work, found, illustration, nature on June 14th, 2007 No Comments »
It is hard to imagine anything more terrible than a magical CGI-dolphin jumping out of the ocean playing with some sort of computerized globe.
This came from the otherwise reputable Getty Images
Posted in food, illustration, nature, san francisco on June 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I scanned a lobster bib i got at the excellent Vietnamese restaurant PPQ Dungeness Island. Yes, I am aware that this fine crab restaurant hands out lobster bibs, but who cares, the food is amazing. If you like spending more money on crab and you feel like going to the original, you can go to [...]
Posted in nature, san francisco, video on June 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Keeping the Sea-Life theme going…
Scoop a handful of critters out of the San Francisco Bay and you’ll find tourists from far away shores. Invasive kinds of mussels, fish and more are choking out native species, challenging experts around the state to change the human behavior that brings them here.
KQED Quest link.
Posted in Art, illustration, nature, other people's stuff, yay on June 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Watercolor of feudal Japanese cephalopods fighting. I love it.
Have a look.
Posted in food, found, nature, photography, yay on May 31st, 2007 No Comments »
link.
Via Boing Boing.