Which means I hope you’ve got everything figured out for tomorrow! I suppose you could get some last minute inspiration from Archie McPhee’s but unless you’re lucky enough to live in Seattle, I’m not sure what you would do about shipping. Then of course, there’s the centralized web location for April Fool’s day including the [...]

Apparently octopi have pretty sophisticated taste – last year the news broke of seizing coconut shells and their distinct class system; are you a one-shell octopus or a two-shell? And now news that they spurn regular tv that most of us still live with but are willing to pay attention if it’s high definition. Makes [...]

The week started with the Ides of March and just got more interesting: You have a unique bacterial signature – did you even want to know that? 116 year old wisteria vine is world’s largest flowering plant When Star Trek geeks get time and fancy equipment you end up with the world’s smallest Enterprise The [...]

I’m not much for scatological humor and really hoping this is the one and only post on the subject. I just couldn’t pass by the recent discovery of the pitcher plant shaped like a toilet that’s actually designed for that purpose, at least by tree shrews.  Just proves you can find just about anything in [...]

Really odd animal fostering – mother hen and puppies Yorkshire pudding may get protected origin status like Champagne Guerrilla knitting is the new trend in urban tagging A King penguin goes goth

It’s time to find out. The first offering on eBay that was strictly matter of fact yielded no takers (even with no reserve.) Not that anyone was that surprised. It takes some selling to make something like this attractive. As I’m getting ready to send ten copies off to the Museum of Bad Art, I [...]

So the exorcised ghost auction I mentioned last Friday has concluded and it turns out the going rate is just under $1000 US per ghost.  Which is interesting given that most people (including the seller)  want to get rid of ghosts not add them to the family. Of course, maybe the buyer just really wanted [...]

2 (not just 1) exorcised ghosts are up for auction Garden zombies hit the market – unclear if these were gnomes before they became the undead A giant pumpkin is being grown as a sailing vessel The gummi bear chandelier has been reinvented in acrylic (but it didn’t get any cheaper)