Monday Miscellany

Yet another jumble of pics and links and general babbling. Top photo: Big Pink, not very pink today.



The Fremont Bridge, looking north



Fog on the Willamette.



Berries outside the police horse barn at NW 9th & Naito.



A squirrel in the Postal Corner Garden next to the central post office. Finally, a squirrel photo that isn't completely blurry. There were actually two squirrels chasing each other, but all the 2-squirrel photos were blurred. The Postal Corner Garden is an, uh, postage stamp-sized plot of land that I suppose is there to provide a calming, non-disgruntling activity for the postal workers.

Now some links & items:

• Cthulhu comes to Oregon! Yay (maybe)!
  
• Also via the Mercury: "Will it Blend?".
  
• Bojack on Portland McParks.
  
• Another great local history post @ Cafe Unknown.
  
• Houston, Texas (home of Tom DeLay & Enron) doesn't like Portland much, so we must be doing something right.
  
• Two recent Friday cephalopods from Pharyngula.
  
• Also at Pharyngula, PZ weighs in on Pat Robertson's latest hijinks.
  
• Why tsunamis really happen.
  
• Glenn Greenwald on the Saddam execution.
  
• Mondo Schlocko has an Asian horror movie about centipedes. I hate centipedes, so I haven't actually watched the thing yet. So if you watch it, let me know how it is, ok?
  
• Funny beer predictions for 2007
  
• Bacon-flavored whiskey. How cool is that?
  
• What xkcd means. The Ackermann function with Graham's number as the arguments. Yeahhhhh, baby.....
  
• And finally, today's batch of echidna items:
  
  • A post about a kid obsessed with echidnas. I'm certain he's got a bright future ahead of him.
    
  • Pics of echidnas ambling in the bush, hanging out at the zoo, swimming (or possibly fishing), gathering firewood, and being upside-down just for kicks.
    
  • Echidnas: Your only defense against velociraptors. It's on Uncyclopedia, so it must be true.
    
  • Echidnas: Just too damn smart to be roadkill.
    
  • A baby echidna on baaaaabyanimals.