Scribal Terror

This used to be my ringtone

But it wasn't nearly as entertaining.

Jellyfish Shooter

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I don't know what this stuff tastes like, but it couldn't be as disgusting as it looks.

Eyeball injections

Having just experienced a vaguely creepy but reasonably painless procedure  involving a couple of injections in my left eyeball, I found this threat from an animal rights group against an animal experimenter a bit bizarre to say the least:

"Rosenbaum, you need to watch your back because next time you are in the operating room or walking to your office you just might be facing injections into your eyes like the primates, you sick twisted f---."

I keep substituting comparable procedures like "having your blood drawn," and "getting a flu shot" and finding they just come up short in the fear and trembling department. If these people really want to scare the crap out of this Rosenbaum person, they ought to threaten him with something that really hurts, like a mammogram.

"Stronger"

Kanye West does an Akira impersonation.

Buono appetito

Michael Gilleland of Laudator Temporis Acti has discovered that lasagna comes from the Latin word for chamber pot.

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Great "What's My Line"

If network television were this much fun any more, I might watch it.

Noctilucent clouds

Live Science reports:

A new NASA satellite has recorded the first detailed images from space of a mysterious type of cloud called “night-shining” or “noctilucent."

The clouds are on the move, brightening and creeping out of polar regions, and researchers don't know why.

"It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why or what it means," said atmospheric scientists James Russell III of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. "These observations suggest a connection with global change in the lower atmosphere and could represent an early warning that our Earth environment is being changed."

The "Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere” (AIM) satellite first imaged the noctilucent clouds May 25. People on the ground began seeing them June 6 over Northern Europe.

The clouds form 50 miles above the Earth’s surface, in an upper layer of the atmosphere called the mesosphere. The puffs of water vapor and crystals appear during summer months above the Northern Hemisphere's pole as well the Southern Hemisphere’s pole in summer.

Here's what they look like from the ground:

Happy Birthday, Mel Brooks!

He's 81 today. Bits & Pieces has a list of his movies, plays, etc. So, what's your favorite Mel Brooks line? We can make a list of them here.
Photo from the Mel Brooks Movie Site

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