People as Animals / Animals as People

I remember the times when people were people and animals were animals... here's a reminder.




Photos Via Planet Tampon.

Don't Eat Bison Burgers

Eat Wolf Burgers.

Animal Planet Goes Awry

Weekly Teinou brings you wild weirdities from the animal planet...

Leopard Mauls Alligator: via Telegraph.co.uk








Monkey-Faced Pig Born in China: via Ananova









Wild Deer Interrupts Morning Espresso in Italy: via Telegraph.co.uk

Photoshop Shmotoshop

Ever find yourself in a photo editing jam without the resources to acquire Photoshop? Well, Adobe's Photoshop is not the only game in town any more.

And luckily for us, the great design website LifeClever has been so kind to list some free web based alternatives.

There's also free downloadable programs like Gimp, Image Well, and Google's Picasa that can help fulfill your simple image fiddling needs.

I just tried out Picnik. Check out the results:
Voila! In less than a minute, Polar Bears stranded on disappearing iceberg... becomes Polar Bears stranded on iceberg from stoned Green Peace guy's perspective.








Tip on this post via Drawn!

Harbingers of Disaster

This is a photo taken May 10 in Taizhou, Jiangsu.

2 days before the devastating Shichuan earthquake killed upwards of 35 thousand people, injured 245 thousand, and left tens of thousands more missing, swarms of toads were spotted migrating through different communities in Sichuan province and beyond.

Keep reading...


The same strange phenomenon was obvserved closer to the epicenter of the quake in Mianzhu, Sichuan on May 9.

NY Times has an interesting article discussing the antagonizing relationship between the Chinese governement and the toads, and other natural omens.





And follow this link to another weird PT Andersonesque happening. These rainbow clouds were spotted 30 and 10 minutes before the quake hit, though they have been debunked as unrelated.

You ain't never seen these before...

Breaking Animal News!

Antelope, flying squirrel, goat, you thought you've seen it all. Sorry to blow your mind friendo, but new species were just recently discovered in Brazil.

Including a legless reptile (not a snake!), a "very cryptic" horned toad that's likely new to science, and the Stenocercus quinarius which scientists liken to a "miniature dragon".



More after the jump...

"The lizard—part of a separate evolutionary line from snakes—is one of 14 species believed new to science discovered on a four-week expedition to a 1.77-million-acre (716,000-hectare) protected area in the Cerrado (an extensive savanna shrubland mosaic and the largest ecoregion in the Americas--not to mention the sixth largest in the world. Across parts of southern Brazil, northeastern Paraguay, and eastern Bolivia)."

This comes courtesy of National Geographic.com.