I hope that someone gets my Message in a bottle…Sending out an S.O.S.!

Ed Stafford’s brutal trip through the Amazon will be over later this year.  He’s already gotten past the hardest parts and is making his way east.  He’s actually gotten a bit farther than I expected him to when I first wrote the caption.

Pandas are some weird bears.  It would seem that their unusual diet may be because a mutation that robbed their ancestors of the ability to taste meat.

LA Gang Tours are open for business.

Saturn’s Hexagon Storm.  Not to be confused with Crispy Hexagons.

I don’t think his video game wedding was done entirely seriously , but it’s still pretty weird.

Michael Fagan’s chat with the Queen wasn’t even the first time he’d snuck into the Palace.

The Outlawries Bill isn’t really intended as any sort of meaningful legislation, just a symbolic statement.  Namely, it’s a big middle finger to the Queen’s authority (or to be more correct:  a V sign).

Ramchandra Das is a dedicated man.  I can’t imagine spending 14 years digging a tunnel if nobody’s paying me for it.

Cathay Williams, Man by Day!

Dew Drop Spider, Full-time Web Thief!

It always helps to be prepared.  The Vatican’s November meeting on the subject of alien life comes at an interesting time.  Although it’s unlikely we’ll find anything intelligent, we have already located more than 400 planets orbiting other stars.

Birth by bite, what a very shark way to go about it.

The deep sea is a pretty weird place and oil-eating worms are probably far from the weirdest things down there.

Paula Sunshine is a big fan of a rather ancient building technique.  Hair in walls?  It’s a lot less gross than making wool the old fashioned way.

Check out Bob’s collection.

A few places have tried goats to control kudzu vines.

A long wait for an old van.

Commuting to school by plane.