I don’t care if it’s not cool anymore, I still love lolcats. Chris found this one – I don’t know who made it but I feel I must post it.

I made this picture today in the new version of Inkscape, making extensive use of the new thin/thicken tool.

From Science magazine news Hobbit Redux? article:

Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg discovered the bones while on vacation in Palau in 2006. (His wife had deliberately chosen a remote, young island because it was unlikely to have fossils on it).

Looks like my Genetics article was overdue for a “good article” rating. I think I’ll work towards getting a featured article rating, the GA reviewer encouraged me to do this…

The double-blossom article was in the Did you know section of the front page for seven hours yesterday morning. It got the top spot, with the pretty double impatiens photo.

… that double-flowered mutants (pictured) were first documented over two thousand years ago by Theophrastus and are found in many popular flower varieties — including carnations, camellias, and most roses?

I made this new wikipedia article in the last couple days and have submitted it to the Did you know
project for display on the main page.

Our kitty Zoe likes to play fetch. She’s always bringing us a little plastic toy or fake mouse and dropping it at our feet. Then she eagerly waits for us to throw it.

But if we pick up the a toy and throw it she just watches or maybe chases it but won’t bring it back to us. So instead instead of training her to play fetch I think she’s taught us to play the game “throw”.

• on Etsy: Monster hoodies

• Words cannot begin to describe The PCR song. There’s even a “behind the scenes” video.

• Assuming you’ve seen the Yes We Can music video, you should check out this john.he.is parody.

• In contrast, a painfully lame Clinton ad.

Someone made a game from this image I made! So cool!!

I just purchased this clock on etsy:

Chris thought it was kind of ugly but let me buy it anyway. Comments contradicting his opinion on this issue are invited. 😉

While reading up on giraffes and acacias on the internet, I noticed that the acacia featured in the original Science article wasn’t in Wikipedia at all – not even a stub! The acacia, Acacia drepanolobium (Whistling Thorn) has a ton of info about it lying around on the internet, so it definitely deserves a wikipedia entry.

I found a creative commons photo on Flickr and the photographer, Martin Sharman, graciously changed the licensing on the photo to allow for commercial usage so I could use it in the wikipedia article. So I made the article, and I think the subject is pretty cool – this tree has a neat symbiosis with several species of ants, check it out.