This small caterpillar with bold yellow and blue markings scares off its predator.
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Monday, May 31, 2010
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How to start a small business
A man goes to his bank manager and says "I'd like to start a small
business how do I go about it?"
The bank manager leans back and clasps his hands together on his gut and
replies "Buy a big one and wait."
business how do I go about it?"
The bank manager leans back and clasps his hands together on his gut and
replies "Buy a big one and wait."
20 things you never knew about Shakespeare by Robert Gore-Langton
Was he gay, straight or just sex-mad?
The sonnets are often cited as evidence of his bisexuality. He may have been in love with his patron the Earl of Southampton, the Earl of Pembroke, or even the playwright John Fletcher. “The fact is he was married and had children,” Jonathan Bate says. “But he imagined in his work every type of romantic and sexual love. It is probable Shakespeare, once in London, would have tried anything.”
“If you’d asked him if he was gay he’d have been totally bewildered,” Simon Callow reckons. “But his work is drenched in sexuality to an extraordinary degree and his plays cover the entire waterfront of human sexual expression. As Leontes says [in The Winter’s Tale]: ‘I am a feather for each wind that blows.’ Whatever he was, at parties he would certainly have gone home with the best-looking person in the room.”
Did his marriage to Anne Hathaway involve her father’s shotgun?
Quite possibly. He was 18 and Anne Hathaway was 26. The parish records for Stratford-upon-Avon show that over the 50-year period of Shakespeare’s life he is one of just three men in the locality to marry before the age of 20 and the only one whose bride was pregnant. He was so young, in fact, that he needed a special Bishop’s Licence, on which his name is spelled Shagspere.
Did he keep a pet?
If he did, it certainly wasn’t a dog. He hated them, especially fawning spaniels. “Dogs have very negative associations in the plays,” Bate says. “The murderers in Macbeth are compared to a list of breeds of dog.” The one dog to get a (non-speaking) part in the works is Crab, in The Two Gentleman of Verona, who lifts his leg in a dining room.
From Times Online/continue reading
The sonnets are often cited as evidence of his bisexuality. He may have been in love with his patron the Earl of Southampton, the Earl of Pembroke, or even the playwright John Fletcher. “The fact is he was married and had children,” Jonathan Bate says. “But he imagined in his work every type of romantic and sexual love. It is probable Shakespeare, once in London, would have tried anything.”
“If you’d asked him if he was gay he’d have been totally bewildered,” Simon Callow reckons. “But his work is drenched in sexuality to an extraordinary degree and his plays cover the entire waterfront of human sexual expression. As Leontes says [in The Winter’s Tale]: ‘I am a feather for each wind that blows.’ Whatever he was, at parties he would certainly have gone home with the best-looking person in the room.”
Did his marriage to Anne Hathaway involve her father’s shotgun?
Quite possibly. He was 18 and Anne Hathaway was 26. The parish records for Stratford-upon-Avon show that over the 50-year period of Shakespeare’s life he is one of just three men in the locality to marry before the age of 20 and the only one whose bride was pregnant. He was so young, in fact, that he needed a special Bishop’s Licence, on which his name is spelled Shagspere.
Did he keep a pet?
If he did, it certainly wasn’t a dog. He hated them, especially fawning spaniels. “Dogs have very negative associations in the plays,” Bate says. “The murderers in Macbeth are compared to a list of breeds of dog.” The one dog to get a (non-speaking) part in the works is Crab, in The Two Gentleman of Verona, who lifts his leg in a dining room.
From Times Online/continue reading
Sunday, May 30, 2010
"I mean, how hard can it be to find someone who has stolen a million bees? Surely he’ll be in a hospital, swollen beyond all recognition and moaning the low moan of deep, relentless agony." By Jeremy Clarkson
Alarming news from the north. Last week someone broke into a field on the outskirts of Knutsford in Cheshire and stole a hundred mummy and baby sheeps. The farmer’s wife is distraught as one of the stolen animals was a pet. And they took its new lamb as well. It’s all just too heartbreaking for words.
And it’s by no means an isolated incident. Just a few days earlier in Lancashire, a farmer in Ramsbottom — I’m afraid I’m not making that up — woke up one morning to find that someone had half-inched 271 of his flock. Meanwhile, in Wales 200 were nicked, a similar number went missing in the Borders, and in Cumbria alone 15 farmers have been targeted. It seems, then, that up north, sheep are the new bullion.
It’s not just sheep, though. In Tamworth, Staffordshire, someone has been nicking piglets; in Norfolk Mrs Queen lost £15,000-worth of cows; and in Shropshire some chap rang the police the other day to say someone had stolen 800,000 of his bees. That’s on top of the 500,000 bees that were stolen from Lothian last June. At this rate I may have to think about fitting a burglar alarm to my tortoise.
So what’s going on here, and, more importantly, why has no one yet been caught? I mean, how hard can it be to find someone who has stolen a million bees? Surely he’ll be in a hospital, swollen beyond all recognition and moaning the low moan of deep, relentless agony.
I want to catch him, frankly, because stealing someone’s bees is a bit like stealing someone’s eczema flakes. What exactly are you going to do with them?
From The Sunday Times,continue reading
And it’s by no means an isolated incident. Just a few days earlier in Lancashire, a farmer in Ramsbottom — I’m afraid I’m not making that up — woke up one morning to find that someone had half-inched 271 of his flock. Meanwhile, in Wales 200 were nicked, a similar number went missing in the Borders, and in Cumbria alone 15 farmers have been targeted. It seems, then, that up north, sheep are the new bullion.
It’s not just sheep, though. In Tamworth, Staffordshire, someone has been nicking piglets; in Norfolk Mrs Queen lost £15,000-worth of cows; and in Shropshire some chap rang the police the other day to say someone had stolen 800,000 of his bees. That’s on top of the 500,000 bees that were stolen from Lothian last June. At this rate I may have to think about fitting a burglar alarm to my tortoise.
So what’s going on here, and, more importantly, why has no one yet been caught? I mean, how hard can it be to find someone who has stolen a million bees? Surely he’ll be in a hospital, swollen beyond all recognition and moaning the low moan of deep, relentless agony.
I want to catch him, frankly, because stealing someone’s bees is a bit like stealing someone’s eczema flakes. What exactly are you going to do with them?
From The Sunday Times,continue reading
Change your cat's bell to save birds
They are also calling for owners to give their cats garishly coloured collars and to install sonic devices in their gardens to scare their pets indoors.
The advice is contained in a new guide produced by the British Trust for Ornithologists (BTO) which aims to reduce the impact of cats on garden birds.
Cats are believed to be responsible for the deaths of 55 million birds in Britain every year and have been blamed for contributing to the long term declines of garden birds like the house sparrow.
Populations of other garden birds, such as the robin and dunnock, are also said to suffer from predation by cats.
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Darth Vader's Facebook: Spans all 6 Episodes, funny as hell!
Luke Skywalker Sorry about your star dad.
22 January, 4 ABY at 19:04 · Comment · Like
Darth Vader No problem, I'm one of the good guys now.
January 22, 4 ABY at 19:21
Luke Skywalker Well, let's not forget that you killed millions of innocent people, including women and children. Hell, you remember the young Jedis?
January 22, 4 ABY at 19:41
Darth Vader Yeah. Yeah. OK. But enough about me, let's talk about you. What are you gonna do now that the Empire is destroyed and that you basically have no reason to live? You know, no girlfriend, no job, etc.
January 22, 4 ABY at 19:57
Luke Skywalker YOU NEVER SUPPORTED ME
January 22, 4 ABY at 21:21
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
Dennis Hopper dies
Dennis Hopper, the Hollywood hellraiser whose screen performances in such films as Easy Rider captured the spirit of a generation, has died at the age of 74.
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Why would a man who drives a Rolls Royce need to borrow two hundred dollars?
A man walks into a bank and says he wants to borrow
$200 for six months. The loan officer asks him what
kind of collateral he has. The man says 'I've got a
Rolls Royce -- keep it until the loan is paid off
-- here are the keys.'
Six months later the man comes into the bank, pays
back the $200 loan, plus $10 interest, and regains
possession of the Rolls Royce.
The loan officer asks him, 'Sir, if I may ask, why
would a man who drives a Rolls Royce need to borrow
two hundred dollars?'
The man answers, 'I had to go to Europe for six months,
and where else could I store a Rolls Royce for that
long for ten dollars?'
Friday, May 28, 2010
Discovery News : Florida Coast: Hot Spot for Shark Attacks
That is 21 percent of the global number of shark attacks during that time, according a new study.
But before we get carried away here, rid the image of the terrorizing Jaws’ shark from your mind. “Calling them attacks is probably a misnomer because the consequences are usually no more severe than a dog bite,” George Burgess, the director of shark research at the University of Florida, reported.
Far from the 10- to 20-foot intimidating giant white sharks that make Hollywood go ga-ga, the Florida coast line sees a lot of smaller shark traffic.
Such sharks include species like spinners and blacktops, which are often less than 6 to 7 feet long, Burgess said. Meaning at 6 foot 8 inches, Lebron James would dwarf most of these fishy predators in the water.
These types of sharks generally prey on small fish (not human flesh).
So why do these shark "attacks" happen? Because humans distract and confuse the sharks.
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Discovery News Videos: Prehensile-tailed Porcupine
Nature's pincushion, porcupines can make anyone a little nervous. But at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, Jorge Ribas meets Clark, the Prehensile-tailed Porcupine, who's more interested in snacking then sticking anyone with his quills.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Insomnia - One liner jokes
Insomnia: Inability to sleep until it is time to get up!
Why it is that the one who snores always goes to sleep first?
Husband: “Honey, I have a terrible insomnia.” Wife: “If you go to sleep, it won’t bother you!”
Insomnia is what you have when you lie awake all night for ten minutes!
Insomnia is the triumph of mind over mattress!
He is such an insomniac that when he falls asleep, he dreams he is awake!
My insomnia is so bad, I can`t even sleep on the job.
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Why it is that the one who snores always goes to sleep first?
Husband: “Honey, I have a terrible insomnia.” Wife: “If you go to sleep, it won’t bother you!”
Insomnia is what you have when you lie awake all night for ten minutes!
Insomnia is the triumph of mind over mattress!
He is such an insomniac that when he falls asleep, he dreams he is awake!
My insomnia is so bad, I can`t even sleep on the job.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The Haunted Household by Christoph Niemann
Maintaining a home is an uphill battle. For quite some time Iʼve suspected that little goblins are sabotaging my efforts.
We try to keep our place tidy. I broom the floor, I sit back, relax and ponder my good work, yet …
… a few seconds later …
ta-dah! One of those little beasts jumps out to mock me.
more hereChristoph Niemann’s illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Newsweek, Wired, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration. His work has won numerous awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club and American Illustration. He is the author of many books, among them “The Pet Dragon,” which teaches Chinese characters to young readers, “I LEGO N.Y.” and, most recently, “SUBWAY,” based on “The Boys and the Subway,” the first entry of his Abstract City blog. After 11 years in New York, he moved to Berlin with his wife, Lisa, and their three sons. His Web site is christophniemann.com.
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