Internet Breakfast in Your Car

It's amazing what they're putting into cars these days:

Here's a whole set of design questionable car doodads: link

The Lifestyles of the Rich and Liverliving

The Oatmeal is the type of comic that Mr. Spanky can really laugh at. Often with liquids streaming out his nostrils if he's drinking and reading it at the same time. It can be somewhat irreverent: consume with caution kidz. Today the Oatmeal brings us the lifestyle of the parasitic flatworm known as Dicrocoelium dendriticum which is depicted nattily in all its gruesome hilarity!

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Water Balloon Time Warp

A water balloon and a high speed camera. You can't get any more fun that this.

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Don't mess with Bambi's mother

Kidz,

I'm pretty sure that we'd all be curious if we saw a fawn. We might want to touch it. GO would want to take it home and keep it in his room under the bed for fun. This video demonstrates why you have to be on the lookout for Bambi's Mom.

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BP Oil Disaster

I'm pretty sure that most of you kidz have heard about the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. From wikipedia: On April 20, 2010, a semi-submersible exploratory offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded after a blowout and sank two days later, killing eleven people and causing a massive oil spill threatening the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and Florida.

The actual well is almost a mile under water and spewing oil into the Caribbean at the rate of 12,000 - 100,000 barrels (500,000 - 4,200,000 US gallons) a day. This is the worst oil disaster to ever happen in the US. Although BP has been trying to stop the flow of oil since the blowout, they have had no success.

To get an idea of the size of that disaster, there is a site called IfItWasMyHome, that maps the spill onto different parts of the world in a mashup with Google Maps. I've mapped it onto Calgary, Toronto, and San Jose so that you can see just how big the spill really is.

The original spill can be found here. If this isn't a good reason to get us off of oil and onto more sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives, I don't know what is.

Baby Sloths

Tremendous cuteness. Baby sloths at the Aviaros del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica. The babies' mothers are typically are either run over or get electrocuted by powerlines.

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Meet the sloths from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo.

A computer and a telephone went into a bar...

Quote from Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of the C++ programming language for computers:

"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.