I Link To Things So You Don't Have To
Saturday, November 8, 2008 This baby pygmy hippopotamus is both disturbing and deeply snorgle-worthy.
Indulge in all the Harper's Index you can handle.
Darren Rowse's TwiTip has great tips for using Twitter, especially if you're a beginner.
"An Open Apology to Boomers Everywhere" made my heart swell, and I am not even an American.
Have I mentioned this live webcam of a box of shiba inu puppies? They are the happy maker.
I bet that there are at least 50 things you didn't know about Barack Obama.
If you find psychopaths as fascinating as I do, you'll find that John Seabrook's article in The New Yorker, "Suffering Souls: The Search for the Roots of Psychopathy", is a good read.
The poet Langston Hughes says it well with his poem "Let America Be America Again".
"On the outskirts of creation, unknown, unseen 'structures' are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets, a controversial new study says."
Stu Rasmussen might be the first openly transgender mayor in the United States.
A Swiss researcher may have figured out how to recreate the unique sound of a Stradivarius violin by treating the wood of a replica instrument with mushrooms.
Thinking about changing the way you manscape your facial hair? Schick will help you find your new style.
It feels so strange to look at truly old photographs. These photographs of the Paris Exposition in 1900 pull at my gut with the fierce reality of time.
Trees can be freaking amazing.
Wow! Lobsters! Wow! Wow!
I am a participant in NaBloPoMo 2008, a challenge to write 30 posts in 30 days during the month of November. "National Blog Posting Month is the epicenter of daily blogging!"
Reader Comments (9)
this made me very happy, puppies and rhinos - a perfect day.
I could watch that video thirty more times.
Lobsters?! Wow! Can I touch em? No?
1. I love linky posts!
2. At the very start of my then 1-year old's first trip to the zoo, the first thing we saw were pygmy hippos. My son, who didn't quite understand what zoos were all about, saw them and exclaimed an-i-mulls!
I've had a ridiculously soft spot for pygmy hippos ever since.
There's video of the pygmy hippo here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/nov/07/baby-hippo
I am working on my top secret plan to kidnap it from its crack whore mother. Persephone is helping. Anyone else in?
Wow, great links! Puppies, Obama facts, lobsters--who could ask for anything more?
I *did* watch that video thirty times!
Just found your blog. Like it. Going to add it to my blogroll. Woo!
Loved my linky trip to paris, the puppy box, and the lobster fridge Then I gave my husband a fu manchu. Oh, how I love linky travel.