BlogBites

April 22nd, 2005

Analysis of the data reveals that 87% of glaciers have retreated and that the change from advance to retreat has occurred progressively with latitude. RealClimate  

The other advantage of this fabric is that bamboo is a readily renewable resource that does not involve pesticides to grow. MetaEfficient  

How can we expect to make any real progress towards sustainable development when our leaders are still fighting the Scopes Monkey Trial? sustainablog  

April 21st, 2005

Given that the Bush administration would likely approve a merger of the entire Fortune 25 into a single corporation, we’re quite confident this transaction will go through. Daring Fireball  

One can only hope that they all end up in some Holiday Inn version of hell where they are forced to do covers of Collective Soul songs. (Backing band: Collective Soul.) Izzle! Izzle pfaff!  

A new age of peace, love, brotherhood, and respect for human life is declared, and all are to love one another as they blah blah blah. Observance is optional. Fafblog!  

So, animals that have a caecum typically practice coprophagy, consumption of their own feces. Rhosgobel  

April 19th, 2005

Before I went, I had read about Ampersand Duck’s ability to resist buying a volume of verse titled “She Vomits like a Lady”… crazybrave  

As a gesture of good will and incredible perversity Wal-Mart exhumed the bodies and is storing them in refrigerated trailers waiting for permission from the Hawaiian State Government to re-inter the remains on site. Fluffiest Blog in the West  

April 18th, 2005

If you will excuse me now, I am going to get in my car and drive to Antarctica and begin my new life as a fugitive, volunteer Polar Bear fluffer — an enticing prospect given how today’s been shaping up. dot.bench  

The only thing worse is when someone insists that everyone give them cash so that they can get “sky miles” on their credit card, then they leave a shitty tip for the server when the rest of us have given them 30% . Covington  

Then you wonder if, wah lao, in a few years time I’m gonna be driving an old Mercedes, wearing a gold bracelet, and having trouble seeing the belt on my pants from where I’m standing.
I’ve since sold my Mercedes. My Very Own Glob  

Because, naturally, she’s recently had the tip of her finger bitten off by her leopard and it disappeared from the hospital to which she had gone seeking reattachment. Respect The Box.  

April 16th, 2005

If the plentitude of blowjobs is part of the Clinton legacy, millions owe the former president a debt of gratitude and an annual pilgrimage to the Clinton Memorial Library in Arkansas. James Wolcott  

In case you were wondering, the scientist in charge of the ESA’s Ice and Oceans Unit is named Mike Drinkwater. Just thought you’d want to know. A Complete Waste of Time