Expert: Bananas could disappear in 10 years
From this article we can glean several important facts, each more alarming than the last.
1. The banana hasn’t had sex in years.
2. The banana lacks genetic diversity and could go extinct.
3. There is an International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain.
4. It’s in France.
5. It’s headed by a man named Frison, which (according to Babelfish) means “clippings” in French.
Drunken birds fly into windows
Now, when they start covering themselves in shaving cream and leaving body prints, we’ll really know something’s up.
Or does this look like it’s going to end badly?
(from Snowmobilers enjoy last unrestricted winter)
Panda porn to cure bedtime blues
Finally, Gigi had something to supplement the issues of Playpanda he had hidden under his bed.
Inserting a link to my Mom’s exceedingly plaid Kindermusik Academy web site in a blatant attempt to get it into Yahoo’s database. Move along, nothing to see here.
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Section: CNN’s Science & Space headlines
Headline: Family keeps pet eel in bath, for 33 years
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It was a 4.3 outside Ridgemark, CA. USGS also has a map indicating where people felt it. (Redwood City is a light blue blob halfway between San Jose and San Francisco.)
According to this map we shouldn’t have been able to feel it at all.
Anybody else just feel an earthquake?
ABCNews NewsFlash currently includes the following headline… Mr. Blackwell Releases Worsted Dressed List. Presumably they mean worst dressed, not dressed in worsted (which is a fabric made from wool yarn).
Perhaps I’m wrong. I’ll be interested to see if they publish a denim dressed list and a chiffon dressed list.
ABCNews runs randomized ads alongside their articles. When I opened the article Love Triangle Leads to Ax Attack, I got the following ad.
Doesn’t look good for Michael Vaughn. (Amusingly, the poor guy who was attacked by his wife’s boyfriend was also named Vaughn.)