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I Almost Filed This Under Octopus October 25, 2010

Posted by stuffilikenet in Mutants.
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but I realized that hands are not feet.

Flying Monkeys October 25, 2010

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[pithy comment here, usually. Today I’m too tired. Cute though, isn’t it?]

Another Harmonic Convergence October 23, 2010

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I found this on BoingBoing.net, which is a garden of delights on weekends. You all read BB, right? Don’t make me come out of your monitor and force you.

Dumbo Octopus Navigation October 21, 2010

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Beautiful, isn’t it? This Cirrate octopus, a bit more benthic than your run-of-the-mill octopus, was videoed off the coast of San Francisco, in the darker, chillier, non-coastal depths. He (she?) doesn’t jet about, but flaps the fins on the side of his head a la Dumbo. Neat.

My Office Park October 17, 2010

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has turkeys

and geese

like other places have rats (we must have rats too, because I see lots of cats in the parking lot).

Violating the Benthic Treaty October 17, 2010

Posted by stuffilikenet in Japan, Mutants, Science.
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The headline is only funny if you have read any of the Laundry series of books by Charles Stross, the best science fiction/horror writer I have ever read. This fish is, however, a true horror from the deep, being found 7 kilometers down in a trench, using a baited camera rig made by a collaboration between Japan’s Ocean Research Institute and New Zealand’s National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research. They found a supporting ecosystem feeding off carcasses of critters from warmer, shallower levels, but no Elder Gods this time.

You will love the name; New Scientist reported it as a Sméagol. The source press release doesn’t use that name, but I like it.

This is my blog, damn it. It’s a Sméagol.