This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a meerkat with a camera.
Image Source: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/64937-meerkats-get-snap-happy
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
NB: the weekly whimsy thread is a stoush-free zone
That now deceased octupus who predicted Spain would win the world cup was, according to this morning’s ABC2 called – Octodamus.
OK, meerkats, everybody get together and…look startled!
that is excellent.
I commend this:
http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2010/10/hanging-around-with-a-baby-orangutan.html
I recommend this for the mid week blues
http://games.adultswim.com/corporate-climber-adventure-online-game.html
Oct 22:
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/pat-oliphant
You’d think that they would at least put a neutral filter on the camera. Meerkats are notoriously unable to protect the front lens element properly.
Dracula by Kate Beaton
The Aeneid (and Zombyes) by Geoffrey Chaucer
[Moderator note: your second link is broken - is this the one you mean?
http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2010/10/aeneid-and-zombyes.html
Stop TEH STOATS! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1097444/A-white-Christmas-Well-stoats-think-so.html
Aperture is far too large, you stupid mongoose.
A very interesting video on the biggest photo art gallery in the world.
C.B.DeMille.
Young Leo Shanahan is telling the Greens party to “grow up”! Leo Shanahan ! Oh, keep ‘em coming, Sonny. *Wipes eyes* Yes, I know this is the whimsy thread, couldn’t think of a better place for it. Gold!
Nice one The Groke.
Fixed that for him. I suspect that the media honeymoon for Mr Abbott may soon be coming to an end and Hockeynomics will be getting increasing coverage. I think there may be a trace of blood in the water and the sharks may soon move in. I wouldn’t be making any plans as Leader of the Opposition just yet Mr Abbott. /end derail of whimsy thread, although this thought does make me happy…
dexitroboper – oddly named though you are, thank you ever so much for redirecting me to Chaucer’s blog(ge).
I’d been checking for ages to no avail, and recently gave up.
“Siena & The Devyce”… GOLD!!!
Currently musing “Stop the Goats” after some research on Ayn Rand “Atlas Shrugged” and its ugly characters and messages, Tea Party in U.S, and emerging protests in Australia over a number of issues (Climate Change, RSPT, MDB Plan, NBN etc). The dark undercurrents that have appeared particularly over the RSPT and the MDB Plan built on sloganeering and inherently inciting posters and actions is worrying.
The Groke, 15.
Is this Leo Shanahan spawn of the notorious pair who have columned for the Murdoch Oz, for such a long time for such little affect?
Ig so, do we stand witness of something rather close to mepotism?
I do fear he may be part of another Dad-offspring pairing a la Devines. (& Maidens?)
Back to Whimsy:
Explaining the internet to a 19th century Street urchin via Tim Sterne on Twitter.
Hint to USian writers: Londoners didn’t refer to shops as “stores”.
Speaking of incredibly cute and heart-warming, as well as amazing.
I must have read a drastically edited and concise version of Moby Dick.
I can’t seem to recall the chapter where The Whale engages in mortal combat with a US Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine, or the part where he destroys an attack helicopter with a sweep of his tail fluke.
It is so good that they remembered to put those parts of Melville’s book into the movie, though.
that’s so cute