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Best Mother’s Day present ever

By lauredhel on 2008-05-11 • ( 4 )

So you’ll never guess what I got for Mother’s Day… a new native garden outside my window! This was the previous outlook from my bedroom window: A little bleak, no? More:

Sunday Neato: Earth-bowls

By lauredhel on 2008-05-11 • ( 2 )

Fluidforms “Earth-bowls”. Just pinpoint your chosen location in Google Earth, choose a height scale, and these clever Austrians will make it out of wood for you, terrain and all. [Via Oohsome]

Otterday

By lauredhel on 2008-05-10 • ( 1 )

Caturday is so last month. Here: Otters doing rhythmic gymnastics moves with pebbles. [via gigglesugar]

I nearly forgot: today is International Star Wars Day

By tigtog on 2008-05-04 • ( 1 )

May the 4th be with you. I know, I know. ‘Tis a mightily horrendous pun. Blame silkworm.

New to the blogroll or other bits of the blog

By tigtog on 2008-04-29 • ( 12 )

Here, Have A Kitty Amnesty Internationals Irrepressible Info campaign That new widget in the sidebar allows us to help “undermine censorship by publishing fragments of censored material” from some of the many websites around the world which have been censored… Read More ›

One more for the tigtog-is-a-freak category

By tigtog on 2008-04-22 • ( 8 )

You are a dog Or maybe you are a mosquito, you certainly can’t be human. The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 21.1kHz Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear!

Eccentric Eye on the World: Moustache and Beard Championship

By tigtog on 2008-04-21 • ( 1 )

Footage via Reuters, of men competing for the most “extravagant” look (no journalist commentary) at a competition organised by the Eastern Bavarian Beard and Moustache Club. Jury member Thomas Zauener explained that there were “different categories: natural beards, moustaches and… Read More ›