Genetics is awesome: Animal hybrids

Okay, so we’re genetically predisposed to want to mate within our own species, right (although some creatures claiming to be humans will mate with anything)? Well, science and genetics seem to be fickle things, and it is possible for some animals to cross-breed.

Consider, for example, the Liger and the Tigon, which come from cross-breeding Lions and Tigers. You’ve heard about those, right?

Now, those are interesting, but apparently, the fun doesn’t stop there.

Apparently, among cats, we have, among others, the Pumapard.

And among our aquatic friends, we have the Wholphin (srsly, that name should be pretty self-explanatory).

Now, even among our equine friends, we have some interesting subjects:

Take, say, the Hinny.

Or perhaps the only other creature with a cuter name than “wholphin,” the Zonkey (aka zebrass, zebronkey, zeass, zeedonk, zedonk, zebadonk, zenkey, donbra, donbri, donkra, zebrinny, clive, zebrula, debra).

Now, someone please try cross-breeding horses and narwhals. Maybe we can finally get man-made unicorns.

 

What-ifs and irreverence

What if Amazon.com’s reader review function existed a century ago?

Read some speculation about what the reviews might have been like.

 

Wholesale Paternity Test

 

**Update: To confirm the authenticity of this post – and for fun – I’d like to add the words of the submitter: “Elayna is insane. She posts all her personal business on Facebook. She recently broke up someone’s marriage, got engaged, and then married to said man all in the same week. Of course now they broke up. She is certifiable.” Indeed!

 

Exclusive pic from the new Ninja Turtles movie

 

Batmanu does not impress PETA

Manu Ginobili caught a bat.

Peta was not impressed. “To bludgeon a 4-ounce animal to death, it takes either a small man or a totally unthinking one—with no respect or consideration for lives humbler than his own. This is a time when athletes in particular need to be on their best behavior around any animal and show that they have brains and a heart, not just reactionary brawn.”
Peta blog take here

 

The next Batman villain?

Apparently, some guy on a motorbike with a knack for the fabulous might be the next nemesis of the Dark Knight.

This guy bears an uncanny resemblance to:

Which begs the question, will any of his other drawings look something like this:

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Meet… Sinestro

“Thaal Sinestro is a fictional character, an alien supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. Created by John Broome and Gil Kane, Sinestro is the former mentor of Hal Jordan and the arch-nemesis of the entire Green Lantern Corps. Sinestro first appears in Green Lantern (vol. 2) #7 (July-August 1961). He is also revealed to be the father of his successor as Green Lantern, Soranik Natu, in Green Lantern Corps (vol. 2) #35 (April 2009). In 2009, Sinestro was ranked as IGN’s 15th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.

The visual appearance of Sinestro was based upon British actor David Niven.”

 

Consider yourself warned.

 

Schwarzenegger Gives California Legislature an FYOU

 

‘Divine’ Denial of Service

I don’t care if it’s “slacktivism” but this Facebook campaign is incredibly funny: launching DDOS attacks on God  by simultaneous prayer

As you may already be aware, recently the Atheist Founation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites were the target of a significant DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which began on Monday 19 October.

This is a call to all non-believers and advocates for freedom of speech to join us in a global co-ordinated minute of prayer with the aim of inundating God (in this context, the Christian god, God, as distinct from the Greek god, Zeus, the Egyptian god, Ra etc etc) with so many useless prayers that it causes his divineness to go offline as as result of our own DDOS (‘Divine’ Denial of Service).

The prayer minute will be at exactly 8pm (Eastern Standard Time) and 9am (Greenwich Mean Time) on Sunday 8 November 2009.

 

The 101 Best Music Videos of the Decade

http://videos.antville.org/stories/1940679/

 

Just so you won’t do it for real

no more reason to abuse the photocopier for the sake of being curious! Everything’s here.

Copy Sluts – from viceland.com

 

Heads or Tails? Depende, ma’am. Pwedeng isa, pwedeng dalawa.

Everyone knows the flip of a coin is a 50-50 proposition.

Only it’s not.

You can beat the odds.

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Coin Flipping = Frisbee

Using a camera from the Stanford engineering department that snapped 1,000 frames per second, they determined that the laws of basic mechanics play a large role. Coins flipped from a thumb don’t merely rotate around their axis, but they also spin like a Frisbee.

The degree of that Frisbee spin depends on the motion of the thumb.

The more Frisbee spin, the longer the side facing up stays facing up when the coin is in the air.

Read the article here.

 

testicle google search

 

this man: Mr. Dreamsurfer

nakita mo na ba siya before?

“In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist’s desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.

From January 2006 until today, at least 2000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, in many cities all over the world: Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Dehli, Moskow etc.”

Other people dream about “this man” flying with them, comforting them after a tough day, or even taking them out to dinner and having sex with them.