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orrrrr hitchin’ a ride on a roomba. i thought cats are afraid of vacuums.

when sea gulls actually look for food that isn’t in a dumpster

looking for chips omnomnom

yay triforce for posting the link to the How-to wiki.

watch the video! it’s true i tell you!

Amy Sedaris was on Dave Letterman last night and talked about her bunbun.

bunny scream but not the scary kind

I don’t want to ruin it for you, but it involves puppies. And puppy napping. And a guy that sings.

from wtf_cute

Some bats have been getting nailed by wind turbines, but not in the typical bloody mass way birds get canned. Folks at the University o Calgary collected 188 bats in Alberta… 90% of them had internal trauma without damage to their outsides. They’re lungs busted. It seems the turbines’ drop in pressure directly by them makes the batty lungs pop, similar to a diver coming to the surface too quickly after a deep dive. The bats are dying from the bends, and they don’t “see” it coming. The turbines are screwing with their echolocation.

This part of the article in NewScientist that got my attention most:

Bats eat nocturnal insects including agricultural pests, so if wind turbines affected their population levels, this could affect the rest of the local ecosystems. And the effects could even be international. “The species being killed are migrants,” says Baerwald. “If bats are killed in Canada that could have consequences for ecosystems as far away as Mexico.”

Well. Crap. One solution to the banged-up bat debacle would be to increase the minimum speed requirement to get the turbines turning.

spotted on wtf_nature.

laura said the empire state building and the clouds surrounding it looked cool, and i demanded a picture. here’s what she sent:

OKAY SO I DECIDED TO GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH “PUUUPPIEEES” AND THEY ASKED IF I MEANT “PUPPIES” AND I SAID YEAH.

first hit:

BUT THE EXCITING PICTURES I FOUND ARE PUPPIES WHO FLY!

cats suck.

from the New York Times

Mike Tattoo, Big Ant, Johnny O, Batso, Sal, Angel, and Des. These hard-asses volunteer at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Toward Animals and scope out areas to prevent animal abuse. Soon they’re going to start visiting public schools to educate kids on being nice to animals.

You can read about them here. I should send this story to my dad for another example of how a lot of people with tattoos actually are not the anti-christ.