Gadling (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: North America , United States When it comes to viewing wildlife in the U.S., most people naturally gravitate to the western part of the country, where you'll find a wide variety of species in abundance. Places like Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and of course Alaska, have great reputations for offering travelers an opportunity to see a large number of animals in their natural habitat. One...
Total Drek (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Well, it's time for another episode of my largely lackluster feature wherein I rate movies using my own nebulous set of criteria. If this post makes you wonder how many movies I actually watch, rest assured: I really just dredge them up from memory when I need an easy post idea. Aren't you lucky? 30 Days of Night Run Time: 113 minutes Genre: Vampire/survival horror, Alaska travelogue Once sentence...
Golf Blogger (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
In what surely is a case of overkill, the Gourock Golf Club, Renfrewshire, Scotland has hired snipers to take out foxes who were digging up the course. Naturally, the animal cruelty people are complaining, and for once…
Church of the Big Sky (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
So, I took a brief vacation this past week. With the help of a dear friend, I reserved a cabin out in the wilds of West Virginia, just past the small town of Petersburg, right on the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River. The North Fork is a relatively modest stream, stocked with the locally-raised "golden trout." I never saw one of these critters the whole time I was there,...
The Snooper Report (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Written for Pat Dollard... Snooper here … Indeed we were all there. Below are a set of pictures for us all to see. I could not get close enough to get the interviews seeing that the Critters were all going back inside the whole in the wall to vote on some junk… The crowds below represent the untelling of the unconstitutional federal health care debacle: The signs presented are very worth...
Homesteading in a Condo (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I make sauerkraut about once a month, in cabbage season (about July through December). Traditionally, kraut is only made in the cooler months- but since I ferment at room temperature, I'm not constrained by weather. I put up 15 pounds for fermenting yesterday; here's the blow-by-blow: First, I quarter and core the cabbages. I like to quarter first because it makes coring easier. Next, I weigh the quarters....
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Pale rodents are a hit as some folks cash in on the oddities They're not as fearsome as a white whale on the high seas, or as portentous as a white buffalo calf on the Great Plains. But a handful of white squirrels is causing a stir in Maryland.
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
[ Editor's Note: We're not just a (rad) news site -- we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now on our community blogs . ] It’s really easy to be a complete bastard in games that you have no deep...
Booster Shots (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In a fun study published online today in the journal Science, researcher Elizabeth Costello and colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at Washington University in St. Louis report on their cataloging of the 100 trillion microbes that...
On the way to Critter Farm... (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Recently we went on a road trip.My husband had a bit of time off and really wanted to get out in our trailer again. We used to do this a lot - get out in our trailer. This pretty much stopped the moment we moved to the farm. As I began loading our sweet little apartment on wheels, I realized that I hadn't slept in it since August of 2007. Wow. That was pre-farm, pre-chickens, pre-goats,
Compass Points (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I got an email from my son, Rick, in Portland telling me of the hunting adventures of his co-worker... So my Co-worker Tim (He's my mentor I spend a lot of time in the truck with him) is a bow hunter, and a smoker. A menthol light smoker. He's had a number of deer over the years but he's never shot an elk. The General Manager, Ray, would constantly make fun of Tim calling him a butt-hacker and telling...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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Byzigenous Buddhapalian (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
For beloved critters and the children who love them . For all children who must cope with death. For Rob who has suffered a fall, concussion, and facial lacerations. For Brad "who has a particularly yucky bronchial flu thing." For the unemployed , among whom are many friends. For victims of spiritual abuse of any flavor. For the LGBT population of Uganda . For those who vote tomorrow. For...
Irons in the Fire (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
to this story , so of course I had to go read it. Short version, girl hiking in woods attacked by a pack of tricksters, and died about twelve hours later. Nasty way to go, sad story. Until I got to this: "We take a calculated risk when spending time in nature's fold -- it's the wildlife's terrain," Emily Mitchell's statement continued. "When the decision had been made to kill the pack...
mangamaniaccafe.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Title: Beast Master Vol 1 Author: Kyousuke Motomi Publisher: Viz ISBN: 9781421532011 May Contain Spoilers Unfortunately, Yuiko, the heroine in Beast Master, and I have a few similar traits. We are both crazy about animals, and behave like Elmira from Tiny Toon Adventures at the sight of [...]
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switbd | 09/01/2009
SPINY lobsters have become the unlikely inspiration for a robot with a unique sense of direction. Like the lobster, it uses a map of local variations in the Earth's magnetic field to find its way around - a method that could give domestic robots low-cost navigational capabilities...
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