See, now this is what I’m talking about. A mayor in New Zealand crushed several other competitors in a mayoral pole dancing competition. Not only has Tim Shadbold been named NZ’s hottest mayor he won for his constituents 1000 $1 tickets! You can check out the video here, hopefully. It kinda worked only a little [...]

Categories: animal rights · breakfast links

Sad. Heath Ledger died yesterday, I’m sure you know already. Gothamist has a decent writeup of the facts. Y’know, the first thing I did when Scott im’d me the news was wonder what it meant for Dark Knight. Is that wrong? Does that make me a bad person? Of course Scott pointed out that deceased [...]

Categories: animal rights · breakfast links

by ronin
While I make no promises as to the frequency and quality of my posts while Felix is out cavorting this week, I will, at the very least, try to not make too much of a mess. Continuing Kirk Unit’s Asian theme and combined with Felix’s love of all things 4-legged and furry, I [...]

Categories: animal rights · crazy · japan

So check it, max hubris points out this article on some dutch researchers trying to grow meat in a lab. You know, meat for eating. So far they’ve not grown anything very meatlike, but it’s something they’re pursuing and could turn into reality at some point in the future. The notion is that lots of [...]

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I’ve always been interested in folding bikes - a luxury for any teeny nyc apartment. But they’ve always seemed pretty unwieldy to me, enter the Suitcase Bike (via treehugger). It’s a little, er… dorky looking, but I think it’s a step in the right direction. My questions are how much does it weigh and what [...]

Categories: animal rights · breakfast links · solid state

UPDATE2: Check out The Green Guide’s recommendations.
UPDATE: Check out the ASPCA’s recommendations on how to deal with this. Read the whole thing if you’ve got a cat or a dog, but here’s something to take note of right away:
Based on information made public by the FDA this week, the ASPCA recommends that you should not [...]

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They’re going to exhume Houdini’s body to try and prove he was murdered by a cabal of psychics. You can’t make that up. Apparently Kulash and Sloman published a book “The Secret Life of Harry Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero,” that no one bought, because it was completely speculative. Whoops, sorry, I guess [...]

Categories: animal rights · video

I don’t know if these ads are playing on TV but apparently Coke has hired two actors to Punk Coke’s own lawyers. Check out these three videos. I love watching how each one reacts. Initially I thought the third guy would be out of a job, seeing as how he was like, “Yeah, we’ll start [...]

Categories: animal rights · breakfast links · video

The future is now! Seriously, they’re making a Hypersonic Space Plane. That definitely must mean it’s the future - I’m sure I wasn’t expecting to see anything that assembled the words hypersonic, space and plane into a single noun anytime in my lifetime. I could definitely go for a plane that, travelling at mach 25, [...]

Categories: animal rights · breakfast links · the future