bat gives Gene Simmons tongue envy
This is one of my favorite juxtapositions ever. Read more about this bat, which has the biggest tongue in the world (relative to its body size), on National Geographic News.
posted by Mason Inman at 7:13 PM
Monday, January 1
This is one of my favorite juxtapositions ever. Read more about this bat, which has the biggest tongue in the world (relative to its body size), on National Geographic News.
Archives
Bookshelf
Quote of the however-long-
it-takes-me-to-find-another
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"I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
âJonathan Safran Foer getting Buddhist in his novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Rocking my iPod of late
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See what I'm listening to via
Flicks: Yay or Nay
- Yay!!!: Das Experiment: this depressing but moving film holds lessons for recent prison abuses in Iraq (read my post on this)
- Yay: In the Mood for Love: tender and moving, but it didn't blow me away, like it did a couple of my movie buff friends
- Yay: 2046: the sequel of sorts to "In the Mood...," I liked this one better; edgier and with an existential sci fi story embedded in it.
- YAY!!!: Me and You and Everyone We Know: read my review here
- boingboing: David Pescovitz is co-editor of this directory of wonderful things.
- inky circus: Anna Gosline, Anne Casselman, and Katie Law are the triumfemate behind this science-and-culture blog
- Slashmark: Mark Husson is an unrepentant Star Wars fan.
- Yingpow: Catherine Meng is a poet, music connoisseur, wandering worker.
- Allmusic: helpful bios & discographies, and more authoritative and comprehensive than Amazon
- Discogs: same kind of thing as Allmusic; started with electronic music, but now branching out to rap & indie rock
- Freedb: an independent archive of CD album info
- NewsGator: an online news aggregator that helps you pluck the diamonds from the manure, at home or on the road
- Powell's Books: the best used bookstore in the world. (disclaimer: I used to work here, "The City of Books")
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force yourself to take breaks:
Time Out!
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Bittorrent client:
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movie player:
VLC media player
(avi, mpeg, ... )
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internet phone:
(now you can get a phone number in countries around the world! i have two: U.S. & U.K.)
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unlock protection on songs
from the iTunes store:
hymn
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grab album images online
+ add them to iTunes
(mac only):
clutter
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transfer files to a web server
with this ftp client
(mac only):
cyberduck
My peeps
Links I actually use
Freeware I swear by
The Measure of All Things
My blog is worth $0.00.
How much is your blog worth?
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