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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Distraction 158: Mini Sirloin Burgers (Tiny & Bold)
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Distraction 157: Stump - "Charlton Heston"
"Lights! Camel! Action!"
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Distraction 156: Walt Whitman
"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
- Walt Whitman, 1819-1892
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Distraction 155: Bilateral Gynandromorph Cardinal
This bird is clawing its beak (since it can't thumb its nose) at standard bird convention. It's male on one side and female on the other.
Interesting and very similar to stereotypical human behavior:
"While observing the cardinal, he noticed that male cardinals would try to chase it out of their territory as soon as they saw it. Females however, were not bothered by it."
Read more here.
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Distraction 153: Egypt!
Egypt has been in the news a lot lately. Sure, there's all that talk of revolution, but some cool archaeological junk is going on as well.
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