Carnivalia, and an open thread

We just had one of these!

Well, just to flesh it out a little more with some random links, here are some photos. I was told the second one made someone think of me (warning: body modification!). And, jebus help me, for some reason I thought this photo was very sexy. Or appetizing. I don't know, something in the midbrain flickered.

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Oh, and several of us sciencebloggers were interviewed for an article by Eva Amsen on "Who benefits from science blogging?" It doesn't mention the benefit of people sending you pictures that tickle the cingulate.

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By Friend Fruit (not verified) on 15 Sep 2006 #permalink

Has ScienceBlogs been hacked? When I click on the logo in the upper right, I get redirected to google.com.

Same when I enter the url directly. Someone messed up the ScienceBlogs front page.

That body modification stuff grosses me out.

quork, that's really weird. But you can click "stop" right before the page redirects. I wonder what's wrong.

But you can click "stop" right before the page redirects.

It seems my network connection is faster than yours.

No kidding. My Internet connection is quite slow. But that has its upshots sometimes.

I can download spam, popup ads and malware at amazing speeds!

The scienceblogs page is fixed now.

meeresbilder (http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,437266,00.html)

Beautiful pictures! I can't help but think that Photoshop or something was used to adjust the colours, though; they're so vivid.

Some googled/wikipedia/altavista attempts at translation:

  1. Pyjamaschnecke: Chromodoris quadricolor, a nudibranch
  2. Rote Seeigel: Red Sea Urchin; Pazifischen Seewolf: Pacific Seawolf
  3. Polypen einer Steinkoralle: Polyps of a Stony star corals
  4. Fangschreckenkrebs: Mantis shrimp; Kugelfisch: Pufferfish
  5. Röhrenaale: Heteroconger (a species of conger eel.)
  6. WeiÃbandputzergarnelen: Pacific cleaner shrimp (I think)
  7. Australischer Fetzenfisch: Australian Leafy Sea Dragon
  8. Kardinalbarsche: Cardinalfish
  9. Steinkrabbe: Stone King Crab
  10. Pazifischen Riesenoktopus: (Crikey! Some sort of weird eight-tentacled sea monster! Who knows?)
  11. Krabbe: A crab (dunno which species. Maybe they don't either?)
  12. Riesenmaulhai: Megamouth Shark
  13. Zwergtintenfische: Bobtail squid. (The cuteness!)
  14. Eishai: Greenland shark, aka sleeper shark
  15. SüÃlippen: Grunts
  16. GroÃaugenbarsche: Bigeye fish
  17. Steinfisch: Stonefish. (Friendly, eh?)
  18. Irish-Lord-Fische: Irish Lord (Top o' the mornin' to ye! Hey, that's what it's called.)
  19. Irish Lord (same species as above)
  20. Spiegeleiqualle: Fried Egg Jellyfish
  21. Spinnenkrabbe: Spider Crab
  22. Juwelenzackenbarsche: some sort of grouper
  23. Mittelmeer-Haarstern: Mediterranean featherstar (a crinoid); Röhrenwurm: tube worm
  24. Krötenfisch: Frogfish
  25. Antennen-Feuerfisches: Radial firefish (I think)
  26. Adlerrochen: Eagle ray
  27. Seepferdchen: Sea Horses
  28. Echte Karettschildkröte: Hawksbill turtle
  29. Partnergarnele: Partner(?) shrimp; Felsengoldrose: Rock gold rose Anemone
  30. Fischläuse: Fishlice; Cabezon - same in English (aka bullhead)
By Owlmirror (not verified) on 15 Sep 2006 #permalink

I may be politically incorrect but ever since Bill Dembski put up a picture of Denyse O'Leary on his blog I stopped going there. She's just too ugly to look at, and I don't like throwing up my lunch everytime my eye wanders over the page and catches that ugly mug! Ugh! Yuck! !

By Zohn Smith (not verified) on 15 Sep 2006 #permalink

I think we had a dish that looked like that at dinner last night.

By jeonjutarheel (not verified) on 15 Sep 2006 #permalink

I spoke to a fellow who spent three months in Korea on business. I asked him what was the weirdest food he ate while there. His answer -- live octopus. Apparently, you need to dip it in lots of sesame oil so that it dosn't grab onto your throat on the way down. Vigigorous chewing also helps.

A quick search of your site (for "Royal Society") suggests that, despite being mentioned a couple of times already in other places I frequent, this item has slid under your radar somehow:

http://www.royalsoc.co.uk/news.asp?id=5165

The complete archive of the Royal Society journals, including some of the most significant scientific papers ever published since 1665, is to be made freely available electronically for the first time today (14th September 2006) for a two month period.

Here is a useful site exploring the news that is considered not news by the major media. Some scientific subjects are included. Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006.

http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2006/index.htm

8, 10, 11, 22 are interesting on science or environment. 19 is just shocking.

15 is about conservative McCarthyism in the universities.

The "Go directly to Google" error on the Scienceblogs top page is back. Someone should be docked some serious nerd points for this.

since this is an open thread, I recommend everybody to go and look at this:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Science/story?id=2455215&page=1

watch the video - it's truly astounding. The shark that walks on its fins in particular. It's just spooky watching it.

The whole thing reminds me of snorkeling in Maui a couple of months back. Damn, I wish I could go and do that again right now...

By Millimeter Wave (not verified) on 17 Sep 2006 #permalink

Holy shit (and I choose my words carefully). Right after watching that uplifting video at ABC I pointed to in my previous comment, I had to go and find this:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2455343&page=1

As above, watch the video. Really, watch it.

As I said at the beginning, holy shit. Interpret that how you will...

By Millimeter Wave (not verified) on 17 Sep 2006 #permalink