Dan Osman climbs a cliff as fast as he can with no ropes. He died in 1998. Wikipedia has more details.

The first link comes from Soma. Now before you click on the link a little context is in order. Soma advertise itself as the only English language Kurdish newspaper around. We shall have to take there word for it as we don’t really feel like fact checking that fact. According to the blogger over at Live a Life Worthy…..

On the back page of every paper, these two men have a chat about…well, everything. Their conversation rambles and jumps and rabbit-trails, never to return.

But we think that anyone who has ever followed a conversation in the Ethereal Land will have no trouble following the logic of conversation on the back page of Soma.

Our second link comes from Doctor Bob. Let us just say that some people should not self medicate.

Our third link does not really need to be read in its entirety. We are just brining it up because it articulates a philosophy that we share. Namely….

See, I can be reasonable. All I ask is that the bureaucrats paid to harass me and violate my privacy do it with a bit of irony, and I’m willing to play ball. Irony about the crappitude of the situation gets me in a good mood. Giving orders and pulling the loyal citizen BS gets me in a bad mood.

From Spiegel….

Berlin Zoo had put the carp into his moat to help keep the water clean by eating algae. But the 140-kilo (309-pound) bear shocked onlookers by catching the chubby fish and playing with his live prey until they stopped flapping. Then he gobbled them up.

“He ate them all in just a day and a half,” the zoo’s bear expert Heiner Klös told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “Whatever people may say, he’s a good hunter, and it’s all part of being a polar bear. This shows he’s totally fit. We won’t be placing any more fish in his moat, though.”

Germany’s top-selling daily Bild reported that onlookers were disgusted by the spectacle. The newspaper ran the headline “Knut Embroiled in Carp Scandal” and quoted animal welfare campaigners as criticizing the zoo for letting Knut eat live vertebrates in breach of German animal protection regulations.

If you have never heard of the Blog called “Things that White People Like” your cultural awareness is sadly lacking. In just a few short months the blog has become an overnight sensation.

Its title is misleading. It is all about what yuppies like, not white people in general. But we can forgive them this false advertising because its title is deliberately designed to poke fun at the yuppies reluctance to talk about race. (It works; the comment section always has a bunch of people complaining what a racist he is)

In support of its broader goal of telling it like it is, we thought we would make his post on white people and shorts rant of the week.

This reminds me; I have got to read the books some day. (h/t best blog around)

This clip dates from the 1930s and it comes from the alps. They can’t get hay off of those mountains with modern equipment.

I found this post on the damage a medical transcriber did to her keyboard after years of use to be interesting. I am surprised that the keyboard lasted long enough to take this kind of damage. In fact, if it were not for a lot of comments that talked of similar damage, I would have thought that this post was a hoax.

I knew that snakes climbed trees in warmer climates. But I never thought I would see a snake climb up into a pine tree. And I never thought that a snake would do that just to get away from a rabbit.