The cleverest and funniest picture I’ve seen in yonks, from Mutley James via Charlie Stross:
The comments are equally enjoyable; “Amazing to think that just one hive of these wove almost the whole of the worldwide web.”
New Forms Most Wonderful
And still the universe surprises us…
National Geographic, February 23, 2009–With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes–topped by green, orblike lenses–in a picture released today but taken in 2004.
The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California’s central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.
Video:
Cute Cute Cute
Comedy Single Double
Well, comedy double really, as it’s a tag team effort.
Here’s the children from the under-rated BBC family sitcom Outnumbered, sticking it to the vicar and demolishing Christianity in less than 5 minutes. Tell us vicar, what would Jesus do?
UPDATE: A topical song from Fry and Laurie. Sadly Stephen Fry isn’t really acting there; unlike Hugh Laurie he really doesn’t have a musical bone in his body.
Limbaughing Under The Bar
From Media Matters via Avedon:
Blumenthal notes that, “Rush [Limbaugh] polls seven points lower than Rev. Jeremiah ‘God Damn America’ Wright and eight points below former Weather Underground domestic terrorist William Ayers.”