If your taste runs more to birds, there are some interesting chimeric jays as well.
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We got a squirrel-free bird feeder a little while back, and since putting it up have been attracting huge numbers of these little greyish-brown guys to the yard. We've got some more interesting birds as well-- there's a pair of cardinals, and a couple of blue jays as well, but more often than not…
In the English language, the term "bird brain" is often used in reference to intellectually challenged individuals. This is, of course, based on the notion that birds are dim-witted creatures whose behaviour is largely based on instinct.
The main assumption is that a six-layered neocortex, like…
As I write this, I am preparing for a trip up north. As we drive north we will follow the ecotone between the prairies and the deciduous woodlands, then track the ecotone between the prairies and the coniferous woodlands. Then we will make a turn and drive into the coniferous zone, cross the…
Crows are smart. Anyone who watches them for a while can figure this out.
But that is true of a lot of things. Your baby is smart (not really). Your dog is smart (not really). Ants are smart (sort of).
It takes a certain degree of objective research, as well as some serious philosophy of…
How long before Jim Tanger spouts some nonsense on this thread?
are you provoking me?
Nice. One of my favorite SNL characters from back in the day.
Interesting as it is, I'd even more like to watch them making the swords.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/6mb592
So Tim/Jim:
If the universe could not possibly have "come from nothing," if "a creation must have a creator," then who or what created God?
i already talked about creation before ( http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/04/another_texas_compromise_wit… #71 ) but here it is again
God told me the truth about it! he was created by the big bang! (a whole bunch of times!) but his magick powers are! and when he masturbated it landed on earth and mixed in with some stuff like lava... but it was godly and made little people calle d bacteria and then god had sex with them and the babies where part god and so they improved on the orignial (random mutations) and the better ones survived and god is insatiable and had bunchs of sex and the little peoples had sex with each others and kept mixing their god particles until better peoples came out and after longs year (like 6,000! but they are god years so good luck counting that many nanosexonds HAHA!) and now humans have the most god particles and we are closest to what he looks like (TOLD YOU GODS IMAGE!!!) and when we are like 99.9999% he will have sex wwith her and make a BIG BANG (bang her booty HAHA!) world explosion NEW UNIVERSE!!! baby god to start process over!!! OMG! and he had sex with mary and jesus got his magic walk on water power! but jesus was celibate and didnt pass his genetic god particles on... DARN!!
Thing is, even after that, people are going to debate Tim as if he's real.
At:
http://phineasxjones.com/illustration/art.php
wondrous art.
Click on the image to see the expanded version. WONDROUS.
People! Tim is not Jim!!!
I think...
HAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!
I vote Tim for a Molly, but if he wins he has to reveal his true identity.
You Darwinists are so hung up on your religion of nothingness that you think that comments can be written by nothing at all. Course he's real, you need an agent to write something like that.
You won't admit design for anything, will you? Sheech.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/6mb592
@#12
BAM! i is proofs! yay
/bow
Back on topic:
That is completely made of win. I want an entire comic book series starring this thing. Preferably created by Ben Edlund (creator of The Tick.) And then I want a blockbuster movie based on the comic book.
NOW, dammit! Or I will unleash my samurai octopus hordes on you!
i agree with #14 this picture makes me tingly (in the upper back part of my brain) i wish these could be real.
/sarcastic
maybe the will evolve...
HA!
Japanese people are weird.
Did no one see the Octophant or the octoskeleton on the home page of the link above?
That'd make a great tattoo for BA.
in soviet russia, sushi cuts you!
or feudal japan?
who is BA? That would make a kickass tattoo, I might have to jock your idea and get it.
@TKottow: Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy has to get a tat because of a bet. http://is.gd/rpYk
Alright, "Revenge Of The Sushi"!
Hi, thanks everyone and glad you like the prints. (Ok, maybe not thanks to the off-topic kooks...) So, yeah I made those and I would be too remiss if I failed to point out that they are for sale. And also, please, it would be so much better for everyone involved if you bought a print rather than getting a tattoo...
But mostly, really, thanks PZ, et al.
(Oh, and PZ, did you get the Squidleton print some fan of yours bought for you a while back?)
It even looks a bit like John Belushi
John Sushi?
Bwahahaha!
@E.V. #17
The Octophant was featured on Pharyngula a few months (years?) ago, and at some point shortly after its release PZ should have received a Squidleton print.
On the other hand, Phineas, is there *really* no chance for a reprint of the Octophant? I missed all of them and I'd really like one :(
There will be an a new Octophant design some day. I just don't know when.
Are reprints so completely out of question? I understand you can't exactly run huge initial series as it would be far too dangerous, but I'm pretty sure Octophant reprints would sell (at least one copy anyway)
I love the pic. I lived in Japan for a bit. Very sensible allocation of legs offense versus mobility.
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"How long before Jim Tanger spouts some nonsense on this thread?"
Fourteen minutes by my math. Which shows a remarkable degree of self-control for a dirt-bag.
Then again only one minute between the evil one's name being mentioned and a response. He is obviously very twitchy, and completely unaware of his tiny yapping dog lack of control and reactivity. So, perhaps, the gap is not attributable to self-control but to him taking thirteen minutes to come up with what he thinks is a suitably stinging response. Any non-stoned middle school student could come up with better in five minutes but I suspect he is 'being all he can be', doing the best he can with ... um ... limited resources.