Monkey Discover

I think it is great that after thousands of years of human habitation they are still discovering new species. You would think that every inch of this earth had been traveled and all flora or fauna has been discovered.

Red-Bearded Monkey Discovered

200TH POST!!!

Its been a long and sometimes strange year this last year. I was surprised a couple of weeks ago to see that I was getting close to 200 posts! And some people thought it wouldn't last;) My post are usually random and pretty much the only thing holding them together is their randomness and I know this. Still think this is better than the emails I would send to my friends with the 10 links to whatever I thought was interesting (10 links is a average or maybe an exaggeration). The best thing I have to post today is a picture of my baby from her 1st birthday! Her party was this last Saturday and all I heard all day from my Mom and Gram was they couldn't believe how many people were at the party. I have good friends and Leigh is well loved and Saturday was a great example of that.

Terradactyl and Dragon Claws

People are so freaking crazy and it totally makes my day! I was looking for some possible deals on furniture for the new house.

Cutest Video Ever!

Top 50 American Road Side Attractions

I love road side attractions and the picture for the link to the story was the Cadillac Ranch in Texas where we stopped in April on the way home from Santa Fe. I don't really have time to look through the list right now, but if I post about it on my blog maybe I can get back to it someday!

Favorite picture I took at the Cadillac Ranch.

Lost Ansel Adams Negatives

Negatives that were bought 10 years ago in a yard sale for $45 are valued today at $200 million! Some of the negatives have never had prints made from them. They are thought to be some of his early work that was believed to have been lost in a fire.

Saving a Sacred Mountain

The Dongria Kondh tribe in India is fighting to save their sacred mountain in India from a British company Vedanta Resources who wish to mine to mountain for bauxite. The story is similar to the movie Avatar except as far as I know the company is not coming in a ginormous robotish suits. Survival International is helping them try the mountain that is elemental to their survival and way of life.

Heart Attack Waiting to Happen

The Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, AZ is home to the Quadruple Bypass Burger which is four patties, eight slices of cheese and a few other things which may not be quite as unhealthy like onion. You can also wash all this down if you can stomach that much food with Jolt Cola. I think I just threw up a little even writing about it. Also if you are over 350 pounds you eat for free! To me that is kinda like rewarding bad behavior. I can't think of anyone that ways that much and is truly healthy. I am not the healthiest eater, but this is a lot of fat, calories and caffeine. It is kinda sad with the high rates of obesity in the US. I saw the burger on a list on Health.com of the 50 Fattiest Foods in the States. I see these type of lists all the time on a variety of websites. Why don't we have the 50 Healthiest Foods in the State?

Doggie CODIS

Researchers are beginning to compile a database of canine DNA to track and prosecute dog fitting. I think anything that puts a stop to this vicious sport (I wouldn't even call it a sport) is great. I hope this also can be used for more projects and lead to more interest and allow it to continue to grow.

War Dogs with Sunglasses

The blog post is about a veterinary hospital at Lackland Airforce Base in San Antonio, Texas for dogs injured in the field. What is really cool though is the picture of the soldiers with their dogs wearing sunglasses! It doesn't say where the photo is from so I am just linking to the story.

Good Luck

In a village in Pakistan there are sacred crocodiles that bring good luck. They were created when a saint left his lice there 700 years ago according to the article on CNN. Pilgrims bring offerings and hold children over the crocodiles for good luck. How do lice turn into crocodiles?

I may need to start watching soccer!

Oh La La
Eye Candy of the World Cup

Dogged Research

Scientific America has a story and slideshow on the Top 10 Canines of Science. The first dog mentioned is Snuppy the Afghan hound pup cloned by Seoul National University.
Woo-Suk Hwang

He is super cute, but then really what dogs aren't cute as puppies? Maybe a hairless chinese crested or whatever it is called.

BBC UK Gallery
Nope even the dogs that are probably the most often winners of the ugliest dogs contests are cute as puppies!

Straight Outta Compton

Ice Cube and the Roots performing "Straight Outta Compton" during a sound check/warm up (?) for the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Questo of The Roots tweeted the video. I came across the video on the AV Undercover site.

Who's Gonna Touch the Oil?

The reporters!

Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program (DARRP)

DARRP's Southeast Region covers North Carolina to Texas and also includes Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

Tramp Tattoo for Kids!

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Dirty Dozen

Environmental Working Group suggests eating organic fruits and vegetables from the "dirty dozen" list. The fruits and vegetables included in the list had 47 to 67 pesticides per serving. The testing was done after the fruits and vegetables were power washed by the USDA. That's right I said power washed! As you can tell the washing them doesn't get rid of the pesticides! The pesticides are higher in these fruits and vegetables because of the skin or the roots.

The Dirty Dozen

Celery

Peaches

Strawberries

Apples

Domestic blueberries

Nectarines

Sweet bell peppers

Spinach, kale and collard greens

Cherries

Potatoes

Imported grapes

The following fruits and vegetables have a stronger outer skin and have little to no pesticides.

The Clean 15

Onions

Avocados

Sweet corn

Pineapples

Mango

Sweet peas

Asparagus

Kiwi fruit

Cabbage

Eggplant

Cantaloupe

Watermelon

Grapefruit

Sweet potatoes

Sweet onions

Must be the Food

“Food poisoning is a very big issue,” Hayward said Sunday. “We have to be very mindful of that.”

CEO of BP's theory of what made several members of the clean up crew sick last week in the Gulf. Couldn't possibly be the crude oil and chemical dispersants!

BP Logo

Greenpeace is raging a war against BP and I don't have a problem with that. They have sent out a call to redesign BP's logo to reflect their current problems. Not only are they in the news for the Deepwater Horizon, but Greenpeace also says they are "poised to invest in Canadian tar sands." According to Greenpeace this is the most environmentally unfriendly oil extraction.