A guy with too much time on his hands has come up with some interesting photos of a fly who is just trying to support his 173 wives and 2,184 kids.
Some sidenotes: The fly is not dead, and the pictures are not Photoshoped.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
A Very Long Nose
This pictured startled me in a way when I first saw it. It probably sounds completely crazy, but I guess I didn’t realize that the elephants trunk is really it’s nose and it has two nostrils. I don’t think I ever thought about that before…. and certainly never saw a picture of the trunk from this angle before. DUH! For some reason I just thought of it as one ‘tube’ that the elephant used to suck up water to spew all over people, and whatever else he uses it for. I know they use it to pick up things and put them into it’s mouth, but still…. I just never thought about it before.
Strange….. I feel so dumb.
It does make a difference. 
Left-handers on roll as numbers triple
Left-handedness has reached record levels, with a more than threefold rise over the past century in the proportion of those using their left hand to write.
A large-scale historical study of handwriting down the ages by academics at University College London (UCL) has found that the proportion of left-handers has gone up from 3% among those born more than 100 years ago to 11% today.
Chris McManus, professor of psychology at UCL, said the surge in left-handedness may be due to a reduction in attempts to coerce naturally left-handed children into using their right hands.
McManus’s team have reinforced the theory that left-handedness is growing by analysing film shot about 1900 which shows that only 16% of those living at the beginning of the 20th century used their left arms to wave, compared with about 24% of people today.
Previously experts had suggested severe discrimination against “gibble-fists” in the 18th and 19th centuries might have caused their numbers to fall - before left-handed numbers picked up again as the fashion for coercing left-handers faded in the latter 20th century.
Even into the 1960s some schoolchildren’s left hands were tied behind their backs to ensure they wrote with their right.
Belgium was for sale
Internet auction website eBay on Monday withdrew an unusual second-hand sale item, the country of Belgium, which had attracted an offer of 10 million euros (13.9 million dollars).
"Belgium, a kingdom in three parts" was posted on the Belgian ebay site as offering "plenty of choice" despite the caveat that it comes with "300 billion of National Debt."
Offered in three parts - Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia - the accompanying blurb said the kingdom "can be bought as a whole (not recommended)."
The vendor also included as added extras "the king and his court (costs not included)."
Ebay spokesman Peter Burin said the site could not host the sale of anything virtual or "unrealistic."
The 'vendor' was named as a former journalist, Gerrit Six. Offering his lot at an initial price of one euro, he saw 26 subsequent bids culminating in the 10 million euro offer on Monday before the auction was halted.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Quick Review: Brave One staring Jodi Foster
I went to see The Brave One with Jodi Foster tonight. If you cared anything about all the Charles Bronson vigillante films of a couple of decades ago, then you’ll like this one. It’s basically the same character. It is violent, but she does a great job of playing the part. I thouroughly enjoed it as did most of the people attending.
Off to Florida for a couple of days....
I’m off for a couple of days to visit my aunt in Florida. I’ll try to post while there. I should return home Thursday night.
Picture at right from my second all-time favorite movie “Airplane”.
Monday, September 17, 2007
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