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Philology and esoterica: scribblings, ravings and mutterings. O&P's Current Pick: Odious' Links:
The Little Bookroom
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary
Nine Scorpions Peculiarities:
Inspirations
References
Worthy Miscellany
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
This is one righteously pissed off birder. Odious and Peculiar heartily approve! Hat tip: Chas. Labels: birds, Bloody Good Sunday, May 12, 2013
What it's like to be swallowed by a hippo Also, sweet justice: Houston teen who found himself with a slew of severe injuries after the ashes from the cigar he was smoking mixed with the “combustible mixture” in his pocket while he and a friend were going to “blow up turtles.” Labels: Africa, Bloody Good, mammals, oddities, reptiles Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Pagan wild men of Europe: they remind me a bit of Kachina costumes in this neck of the woods. More here, though you'll have to navigate within the site on your own: look for Wilder Mann. Via Chas, of course. Labels: ethnography, Europe, folklore Monday, April 08, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Images of a giant squid in its natural habitat! Who says there's no good news these days? They did it by means of near-infrared light: beautiful images of a beautiful animal, even if it's just a little one. Labels: Bloody Good, cephalopods, oceans Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
As on many things I like, I tend to glut myself on Interactive Fiction, then ignore it for months on end. But Bee is well worth anyone's time. Labels: Bloody Good, IF, literature, words succeed Thursday, December 20, 2012
One of the perks of living in New Mexico (and we need a few!): a low profile on this map of natural disaster risk. Tornadoes are quite rare, earthquake risk very moderate, hurricanes sound kind of nice around here. We just have some hail and a couple volcanoes to live with, and our volcanoes are the mild type that might spit up a small cinder cone every few thousand years, not looming behemoths like Rainier or Shasta. The map doesn't include forest fires, which would give the Rockies a much stronger showing, but it's really only a relatively small number of homeowners down here for whom wildfire is a serious worry. Our main afflictions are drought, wind and idiocy, which I suppose I'll take over tornadoes and earthquakes. Labels: cartography, New Mexico, the West Friday, December 14, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
I love that some web administrator for the USDA saw fit to illustrate a rather P.C. news release from the Forest Service with an image of the, errr.... striking One-Hung-Low pictographs from the Middle Fork of the Salmon:  My larger version:  Labels: Bloody Good, Idaho, rock art Tuesday, December 04, 2012
NOAA answers the question "Why don't we nuke hurricanes?" Via What If? Labels: explosives, idiocy, meteorology Monday, December 03, 2012
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