Police find missing gnomes!

Police find missing gnomes cache

Two women have been charged after the discovery of more than 40 garden ornaments thought to have been stolen from homes in Central Scotland.

The Museum of Non-Primate Art

New Zealand art and science at it's best: MONPA.

The alarming animal kingdom

Giant hornets, bird eating spiders, hummingbird-eating prating mantis and huge, ugly scorpions.

It's enough to make you want to hide at home.

Mind bending image from Nasa

From the last shuttle mission, a mind bending self portrait.

WLOTD: The Rastafari movement

The Wikipedia again shows me how little I know: Rasta, Zion and Babylon.

Venomous mammals

Poisonous mammals. Surprisingly there are at least four: the Cutting Hare, the Platypus, various types of Shrew and the Solenodon of Haiti and Cuba.

Platypus venom may have it's uses.

Update: "Their cousin called monotreme"

Touched by His Noodly Appendage

Fisking the "War on Terror"

It's not completely convincing, but Fisking the "War on Terror" is a great summary.

Hu is the new leader of China

Condi: Hu is the new leader of China.

George: That's what I want to know.

Condi: That's what I'm telling you.

George: That's what I'm asking you. Who is the new leader of China?

Cambridge in Colour

Wonderful photos of Cambridge

Via Metafilter

WLOTD: The Wikimedia Commons

The Wikimedia Commons is a project that provides a central repository for free images, music, sound & video clips and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, used in pages of any Wikimedia project.