Short and sweet this week. Nothing mind-bendingly weird this time, but still some good oddities. And a very disturbing video.

Microchip saves rare Cambodian turtle from landing in Chinese soup pot: NPR had a story on the return of the turtle to Cambodia. It sounded like an old spy film, with the two parties meeting on [...]

My Tivo’s been having a bit of a problem lately: recorded material can tend to stutter when I’m playing it back, and it seems a lot slower than it used to be. It’s an older model: a Philips Series 1. The opportunities to transfer the lifetime service on it are few and far between [...]

Well, things started our weird this week, but then made a left turn into just silly. I got to browsing Lego related stuff for some reason and just couldn’t stop.

Really Weird Stuff

Not Bigfoot, just a guy in a shaggy outfit: If you see Bigfoot driving a car, IT’S NOT BIGFOOT.
Tooth of the Lock Ness Monster?: [...]

Spoilers, ho!

Last night, I saw Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. And, truly, it should be called “Spielberg’s” because no one else could take an apocalyptic event and make it all about a guy reconciling with his kids. Unfortunately, it’s that famous Spielberg schmaltz that once again torpedoes the movie.

Firstly, the good. The special [...]

Yep, I took the MIT Weblog survey and so should you!

More weird stuff happening all over, as usual.
Nature Run Amok
Animal and shark attacks seem to be on the rise:

Grizzly kills couple in Alaska
Shark kills teenager at N. Florida beach
Boy stable after 2nd Florida shark attack

Just Plain Odd

Wickerpedia

Monsters!

Boffins create zombie dogs (Thanks to Ken): Zombie dogs, check!
Bog Mummy Mistaken for Murder Victim: Mummy, check!
Rare ‘lobster’ baby [...]

We get some nice turtles around from time to time, and it’s always nice to find baby turtles, since it usually means that there’s a mother turtle out there and possibly more siblings. We think this one is about a year old. There’s no amusing story with this guy, however: we almost stepped on him [...]

Ah, much much better. My previous Slingbox appeared to be deeply flawed: no sound, then no picture. However, after exchanging the unit and re-connecting it, all appears fine. This time, both the video and audio came up immediately and it all looks great!

With a working unit, the connection and setup was quite painless (though I [...]