My land

What ever happened to the dinosaurs?

Sundew

Earth is heaven

One world.

Right now.

Eden

h/t PG.

Oh hai. Ceiling cat can seez you, rly!

Invisible perfect waves made physical

h/t Monkeyfister.

Kitteh

Monkeyfister has more on the history.

Every particle has free will within its bounds

Chickens.

All the dreamers are waking

Independence Pass closed today

Bonus points if you can identify the music.

Earth

(h/t)

Down by the sea

When cats attack

(h/t Phydeaux @ Phydeaux & Phriends)

A Dream of Organon

Recommended reading.

Hemp for victory

Ninja Warrior (squirrel edition)

(h/t Ellroon @ Rants from the Rookery, who is worrying about Squirrel Qaeda)

Mary-Kate Olsen is all grown up

I’m happy.

Related post:

• Because women don’t smoke pot, part 2

Fractal landscape

Click image to zoom out.

earthquake

Update: Close but tiny.

USGS estimated magnitude 2.7.

Looks harmless? Was it made in China?

MSNBC (hat-tip Bryan @ Why Now?):

WASHINGTON – Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys — including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters — because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.

The worldwide recall being announced Thursday involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August. It is the latest in a wave of recalls that has heightened global concern about the safety of Chinese-made products.

The recall is the first for Fisher-Price Inc. and parent company Mattel Inc. involving lead paint. It is the largest for Mattel since 1998 when Fisher-Price had to yank about 10 million Power Wheels from toy stores.

Poisoning Big Bird is not nice. Boo.

How many children have been exposed?

Related post:

• Do I have to paint you a picture (with lead paint)?

And now for something completely different

Try it, you’ll like it.

earthquake

Probably small. I’m heading back to bed, updates later.

Update: Here’s the USGS report:

Magnitude	4.2
Date-Time	Friday, July 20, 2007 at 11:42:22 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Friday, July 20, 2007 at 4:42:22 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	37.807°N, 122.188°W
Depth	5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Region	SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
Distances	4 km (2 miles) ENE (69°) from Oakland, CA 4 km (3 miles) ESE (113°) from Piedmont, CA 7 km (4 miles) SW (234°) from Moraga, CA
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 0.1 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.3 km (0.2 miles)
Parameters	Nst=226, Nph=226, Dmin=3 km, Rmss=0.12 sec, Gp= 32°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=3

Most recent previously felt quake:

• Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D (circa 1680) is not meant to be equal-tempered

What are you smoking?

Hat-tip Monkeyfister.

Recommended viewing:

• Judge the tree by the fruit thereof

“Emotion-free crisis management”

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.

How does it feel to be a psychopath? Oh, that’s right…it doesn’t feel…at…all.

That boy needs therapy.

Share and enjoy?

Playing with food

Hat-tip Phydeaux Speaks.

Recommended listening:

• Sufjan Stevens

And now for something completely different:

• The Richard Bruce Cheney fansite.

Pascal’s gambit

Hat-tip Monkeyfister.

Do you like milk?

Recommended viewing:

• Is milk good or bad? Yes.

Be fruitful, and multiply

“Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.
Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.
But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

I has a programming language

Example code:

HAI
  CAN HAS STDIO?
  I HAS A CTR
  I HAS A BREAK
  VISIBLE “YO! HOW MANY KITKATS U WANT BETWEEN 1 AND 100?”
  GIMMEH BREAK
  IM IN YR LOOP, UPPIN YR CTR!!1 TILL 100
    IZ VAR SMALR THAN BREAK?
      YARLY
        VISIBLE “KITKAT #” N CTR N “!”
      NOWAI
        VISIBLE “CYA!”
        LMAO
    KTHX
  IM OUTTA YR LOOP
  VISIBLE “CIAO.”
KTHXBYE

What if God smoked cannabis?

Related posts:

• Judge the tree by the fruit
• For the want of a reply…

One world

Permaculture: The Garden of Eden

[Zoom]

Will it work?

Do plants grow?

Hat-tip Monkeyfister.

Is milk good or bad? Yes. Definitely, or not.

Hat-tip Chester.

San Francisco

Even “reasonable conservatives” forget the first half of the second amendment

Jon Swift has an idea:

It is the Second Amendment that makes our country free. A Global Second Amendment would make the world free. Nuclear proliferation could be the key to making the world safe for democratic proliferation.

We’d have to accept a Nuclear Regulatory Body, being necessary to the security of a free World.

Related posts:

• RKBA:
• Regulate the militia.

And now, for something completely different

Pug bowling.

Hat-tip Phoenix Woman.

Recommended viewing:

• The little ones understand, and laugh

Things to hear and read

Collective intelligence.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?

ABC News (hat-tip Monkeyfister):

As President Bush took a question Thursday in the White House Rose Garden about scandals involving his Attorney General, he remarked, “I’ve got confidence in Al Gonzales doin’ the job.”

Simultaneously, a sparrow flew overhead and left a splash on the President’s sleeve, which Bush tried several times to wipe off.

Here’s video (hat-tip Melissa McEwan):

Well, it doesn’t quite match ABC’s telling.

Etz Chaim

[odeo=http://odeo.com/audio/12377753/view]

Heal the nation.

Chickens chickens chicken

Chicken Chicken.

Chicken Chicken:

• Chickens chickens chicken

Support the family farmer, save the earth, listen to Willie

Too cute

Hat-tip Sobchak Security, by way of Skippy.

Recommended viewing:

• Wednesday catblogging

Make way for an interspace bypass.

Claire Wolfe, driftglass.

Please handle with care. Not suitable for all audiences. There is nothing to see here, please move along.

Not Recommended listening:

• Roygbiv

Related post, which would be a good place to go instead of here:

• Respect

And a totally unrelated post, which you should not bother with:

• Black market goose liver doesn’t sound like a very good idea.

Is that a bustle in your hedgerow?

The arboreal articulture of Axel Erlandson.

Hat-tip ggwfung.

Recommended listening:

• To Bedlam and part way back
• As the Leonids fertilize the earth…

Right fucking now.

The joy of hemp

Shockwave video.

Hat-tip Tanya.

There is a season turning now.

Recommended viewing:

• Now is the time
• Must see TV
• Imagine peace
• Intervention

This could be heaven right here on earth.