Excellent summary by David Michael Green.
If you read only one long, exhaustive post today, read this one, not the one below. Iraq is just a teeeeeeeny bit more important.
Friday pudublogging: Binturong, baby
Say hello to Indah, daughter of Pepper and Emas:
Only ten weeks old, and already she smells like burnt popcorn and corn chips. Oh, how can she binturong, when looks so binturite?
New resident of one of the world’s greatest zoos.
Vivoleum: fuel of the future
Global warming itself may provide us with all the fuel we need:
"We need something like whales, but infinitely more abundant," said "NPC rep" "Shepard Wolff" (actually Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men), before describing the technology used to render human flesh into a new Exxon oil product called Vivoleum. 3-D animations of the process brought it to life.
The idea of using the hundreds of thousands of human victims of climate change as an innovate fuel source was presented with a straight face at a petroleum industry conference. And they weren’t thrown out of the room… well, not immediately, anyway.
Andrew Lloyd Webber loses entire Phantom sequel score
We always knew the cats would get even someday…