Two DC Nation Animal Man shorts

Two outstanding DC Nation Animal Man shorts.

*Previously: Super Best Friends Forever short #2.

*Buy Animal Man toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. NY Times has a long article about Jack White. Here's one gem:

White led the way upstairs to the master bedroom, where a man in a Music City Masonry T-shirt was setting dropcloths around the fireplace. “Whoever lived here before built this ridiculous tan bedroom,” White said, spitting out the word “tan.” He was redoing it in green and black — what he termed “rustic art deco.” He was also installing microphones under the eaves outside his window. Thanks to some quirk of acoustics, he said, “I can’t hear the rain.” He wanted to pipe in the noise to speakers in his bedroom and listen to the rain while he fell asleep.

2. Oops:

Last April, U.S. Forest Service crews planted nearly a million pine and fir trees across thousands of acres scorched clean by the devastating 2009 blaze. Most of them shriveled up and died within months, as skeptics had predicted.
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Much of the funding for last year's reforestation came from the South Coast Air Quality Management District. The district provided $1.5 million from money Chevron gave the district to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions resulting from expansion of its El Segundo refinery. About $900,000 of the total was spent on last year's plantings.

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3. Sock monkey paper doll.

4. Homemade version of Ash's mechanical hand from Army of Darkness. Via.

5. Last chance for this week's two giveways.

Super Best Friends Forever (Short #2)

The second delightful episode of Lauren Faust's Super Best Friends Forever.

Olly Moss plays Draw Something

I'm going to revoke @jock4twenty's nerd card for not guessing this Draw Something doodle. pic.twitter.com/sztoxkA6

— Olly Moss (@ollymoss) April 7, 2012

Glaucus Atlanticus Sea Slugs

Glaucus Atlanticus Sea Slugs:

G. atlanticus is able to feed on P. physalis due to its immunity to the venomous nematocysts. The slug consumes the entire organism and appears to select and store the most venomous nematocysts for its own use. The venom is collected in specialized sacs (cnidosacs), on the tip of their cerata, the thin feather-like "fingers" on its body. Because Glaucus stores the venom, it can produce a more powerful and deadly sting than the Man o' War upon which it feeds.

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*Previously: Rainbow-hued pigeon; giant bat-eating centipede.

Link roundup

1. The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church wears a $30,000 Rolex (a clumsy attempt to airbrush it out of a photo was discovered by bloggers).

2. William Gibson, commenting on this week's news of a woman being rescued by Ryan Gosling:

Encounters with celebrity are our equivalent of being taken under the hill by fairies.

3. Updates on the Prometheus online game, including a description of this starmap.

4. Now available for preorder at the BBTS, a set of the four new TMNT figures.

Disney's Motorcity

I like the look of Disney's upcoming show Motorcity. There's a free iOS game that's reasonably fun (more fun than that free Hunger Games app). And Disney is sponsoring Rhys Millen Racing:







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