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[Sirenoftitan]

We haven't had birds in a while......

There was a look of mild panic on the face of the steward at the Barbican's Curve gallery when she politely asked everyone to leave on Monday evening."I'm sorry, we are having a technical difficulty," she said.

Half an hour earlier, the only problem had been you couldn't hear the cymbals in Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's exhibition. They had microphones on them, but all you could hear was the guitar and bass. Oh, and the vocals; the soft, busy chatter of the live flock of zebra finches sharing the room with us. They are the players in Boursier-Mougenot's rock band, inadvertently plucking and scraping the strings of the guitars as they perch or take-off, or shuffle along the fretboard while preening.

The day an egg stopped the rock-chick show by Pascal Wyse, The Guardian

[Jaime from Wasilla]

I debated whether this should go in the general non-political humor thread, but since it is more in the tradition of a good cake wreck, I chose to put it here instead.  Call this a cheese-wreck of sorts...

Steve Jobs Cheese Head

It's delightfully creepy.

[Aeroentropy]

I debated whether this should go in the general non-political humor thread, but since it is more in the tradition of a good cake wreck, I chose to put it here instead.  Call this a cheese-wreck of sorts...

Steve Jobs Cheese Head

It's delightfully creepy.

Faintly sacrilegeous, to those of us who worship the Great Turtlenecked One -- but quite talented. And indeed, what better to bring to the ipad launch party!

[daMamma]

 

[Sirenoftitan]

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“Dingoes have been held in a time capsule since they were brought to Australia 5,000 years ago and since then have been running around the continent,” Dr Wilton, a genetics expert from Sydney’s University of NSW, told The Times.

“They have largely been separated from other breeds, there was generally not the mixing we see with other, more modern breeds.”

Modern breeds of domesticated dogs – such as bulldogs, spaniels, hound, retrievers and terriers – originated from the early 19th century in Europe. Another strand of more ancient breeds originated in the Middle East and Asia. These include the chow-chow, basenji, akita, Chinese shar-pei, Siberian husky and Alaskan malamute.

Dingo found to be one of the world's oldest dog breeds by Sophie Tedmanson, The Times

Howl, howl. 

[daMamma]

They are a very interesting and fascinating breed. 

[Sirenoftitan]

Scientists are a step closer to creating a Star Trek-style cloaking device after demonstrating a material that makes objects beneath it appear to vanish.

The material was used to hide a bump on a surface by interfering with the way light bounced off it, making it seem as though neither the cloak nor the bump was there.

The cloak was designed to make objects invisible to infrared light, but the work paves the way for more advanced materials capable of cloaking objects in visible wavelengths.

Cloaking device makes objects invisible – to infrared light anyway by Ian Sample, The Guardian

Ooo!  That sounds like fun. 

[boodog]

Scientists are a step closer to creating a Star Trek-style cloaking device after demonstrating a material that makes objects beneath it appear to vanish.

The material was used to hide a bump on a surface by interfering with the way light bounced off it, making it seem as though neither the cloak nor the bump was there.

The cloak was designed to make objects invisible to infrared light, but the work paves the way for more advanced materials capable of cloaking objects in visible wavelengths.

Cloaking device makes objects invisible – to infrared light anyway by Ian Sample, The Guardian

Ooo!  That sounds like fun. 

Oh it does! Next to time travel machines, a cloaking device is my next most wished-for-but-not-yet-invented-invention-     

[Jaime from Wasilla]

I'm holding out for the transporter and the replicator. 

[futurexpat?]

Cute baby animals drifting off to sleep:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/18/13-cutest-animals-falling_n_501479.html

My favorite is the golden retriever pup on the step. 

[futurexpat?]

And speaking of dogs, as above:

Modern dogs are descended from wolves, but the question has been: which wolves? Now, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles say they have the answer. By comparing the DNA from both dogs and wolves, the UCLA researchers say the first place that domesticated dogs called home was somewhere in the Middle East.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124768140&sc=nl&cc=brk-20100318-0938&ps=brk-mp

[pacos_gal]

Those are just adorable!

I remember when my golden retreiver was about a year old.  I had to get up around 5:30 to get ready for work, which meant she had to wake up and go outside for morning 'business'.   I finally figured out that I had to walk with her down the hallway or she would just drop to the floor and go right back to sleep on the way to the patio door.    Those dogs take their sleep time just as seriously as their play time and either can happen at any time and any place!

[Aeroentropy]

OK - I just had to share this one. I love a gecko as much or more than most, but this is pretty, well, unusual:

Say gecko and most people think of the wisecracking green reptilian mascot in the Geico insurance company television commercials.

They don’t picture a 6-inch-long leopard gecko getting a minuscule CT scan as a pet owner tries to save his ailing longtime companion.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/18/treatment-believed-first-ailing-gecko/

[daMamma]

I'm sure that will make a very interesting and informative research paper for future gecko treatments.  Don't even want to imagine the price tag, but I'm glad GirlyGrrrl is now in good health and doing well. 

[futurexpat?]

Very cool!

[Jaime from Wasilla]

Time for some new Cake wrecks!

The weekend posts on the Cake Wrecks blog are usually about wonderful successes, not wrecks. This weekend they featured science fiction themed cakes.

Sunday Sweets: 2010 Cake Odyssey

Last week, I promised that we would bring you the sci-fi and fantasy cakes from That Takes the Cake, the cake and sugar art show that took place recently in Austin. I have gone through what seems like thousands of photos trying to pick out the coolest and most creative and I think I succeeded. Most of the photos here were found on snarkygurl's Flickr page and a couple were taken by Lynn Moore who should be a professional photographer if she's not already. As with last week, I only know who made a couple of these so, if it's yours, let me know and I'll credit you. On to the sweets!

I dare you to not smile as you look through these. Grin.

[futurexpat?]

Loved them! 

[boodog]

This video of the volcano erupting under a glacier in Iceland is amazing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/03/21/VI2010032102608.html

[futurexpat?]

I saw that yesterday. It's amazing. Iceland truly is the land of ice and fire.

[Gramiam]

Time for some new Cake wrecks!

The weekend posts on the Cake Wrecks blog are usually about wonderful successes, not wrecks. This weekend they featured science fiction themed cakes.

Sunday Sweets: 2010 Cake Odyssey

Last week, I promised that we would bring you the sci-fi and fantasy cakes from That Takes the Cake, the cake and sugar art show that took place recently in Austin. I have gone through what seems like thousands of photos trying to pick out the coolest and most creative and I think I succeeded. Most of the photos here were found on snarkygurl's Flickr page and a couple were taken by Lynn Moore who should be a professional photographer if she's not already. As with last week, I only know who made a couple of these so, if it's yours, let me know and I'll credit you. On to the sweets!

I dare you to not smile as you look through these. Grin.

I, too, claim my geekiness. I got through two verses of "Attack of the Killer To-MA-toes without a single mistake. I adored that movie. Great cake too!