Weekend Blog Cleaning

There is some unfinished business worth mentioning and stories quickly aging, so I want to get those out there:

1) Just when you thought another vacuous museum exhibit would go unnoticed, comes a refreshingly critical review in the New York Times of the American Museum of Natural History's newest exhibit on water. The review and the exhibit (if you're in the area) are probably both worth a visit (as is this article on the recent water shortage in Tennessee).

2) Maureen Dowd handed over her column at the New York Times to Steven Colbert a couple weeks ago and what he wrote just keeps getting funnier to me:

Surprised to see my byline here, aren't you? I would be too, if I read The New York Times. But I don't. So I'll just have to take your word that this was published. Frankly, I prefer emoticons to the written word, and if you disagree :(

Read the full Colbert Op-Ed here.

3) Randy Olson is at a friggin' awesome film festival this weekend in Wisconsin called Tales from Planet Earth. The line-up of sweet films includes Manufactured Landscapes, Microcosmos, Darwin's Nightmare, and, of course, Flock of Dodos.

4) Why did lobster cross the road? To escape their fate on the plate.

Dozens of lobsters destined to be boiled alive made a successful getaway from an Asian supermarket in the German city of Stuttgart. The clawed crustaceans, some of them up to 15 centimeters long, managed to crawl out of their crates, which had been poorly secured with wire mesh, then scurried across the floor of the supermarket and squeezed through the metal shutters covering the front of the store. The front door had been left open by mistake.

Read more on the great lobster escape here.

5) The David Suzuki Foundation, a Vancouver-based NGO, is hiring a Marine Conservation Program Director. Read more about the job here.