A face only a mother could love … maybe

Presenting the world’s ugliest animals.

I don’t agree with all the choices, but many do have faces that could break a mirror.

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80% is better than nothing

Oh, well. I tried. Really. I made it through eight books and well into a ninth before breaking my pledge to read ten books before buying another. But, last night I couldn’t hold out any longer: I ordered not one, but two books:

• Ian Plimer’s Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science. I’m a deep skeptic regarding the theory of anthropogenic global warming, and Dr. Plimer’s book has been receiving quite a bit of praise for the extensive science he uses to substantiate his criticisms of AGW. I’m looking forward to this.
• Michelle Malkin’s Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies. I’m not Ms. Malkin’s biggest fan by any means, but she’s very dogged when it comes to investigative reporting (as in her research into former Washington Governor and current Commerce Secretary Gary Locke’s foreign campaign contributions). If this book is on that level, it should be fascinating reading. In spite of the lurid dust-jacket copy.

I should really ask the neighbors to move out, so I could turn their apartment into my library. It’s only fair….

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A monument to stupidity

Wow. Just …wow. The narrator of this video has never heard of light refraction, and thinks rainbows in sprinklers are something that happened in the last 20 years due to some sort of contamination. Watch, and be amazed (or appalled):

It’s scary to think that she probably votes, too…

(hat  tip: Ace)

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Something for clown-philes (and -phobics) everywhere

We’ve often suspected our justice system was run by clowns, and now there’s proof:

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Melancholia

To paraphrase Kierkegaard,

“There is nothing so bleak as the memories of futures that will never be.”

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I don’t care if they’re evil – we must have them!

Come on, don’t act surprised. Of course someone like me, who grew up loving old science-fiction movies and Japanese anime, would feel his heart go pitter-pat at the thought of US war robots that feed on the dead:

A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.

Robotic Technology Inc.’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that’s right, “EATR” — “can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable,” reads the company’s Web site.

Now, if only they were giant war-robots….

(hat tip: Allahpundit)

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Macabre map

A map that details where the suicidal leapt to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge:

A map showing where they jumped, by light post

Via the excellent Strange Maps blog.

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Bad mood

Not up, only down.

Not forward, only backward.

Not progress, only decline.

Not better, only worse.

Bah.

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20 scary obsolete surgical tools

While there’s plenty here to make one’s skin crawl, I think my favorite is the skull-saw.

Technorati tags: antiques, surgical tools

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