Archive for December, 2008

Tuesday
Dec 2,2008

There is a Penguin Gay couple in Harbin, China.

The two penguins are trying to steal eggs from straight birds so that they can become ‘fathers.’ Other birds in the zoo have noticed the deception and are ostracizing the gay twosome. The gay couple placed stones at the feet of parents to try to hide the eggs they stole.

The zookeepers now have to separate the gay guys from the rest of the group to avoid disrupting the community. Does all this sound vaguely familiar? They say “It’s not discrimination. We have to fence them separately, otherwise the whole group will be disturbed during hatching time.”

Tell that to the birds when they start passing around a proposition with the number 8 on it.

Source: Telegraph

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Tuesday
Dec 2,2008

Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace and helm of the world’s most active marine non-profit organization, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is a modern day pirate. Oh yes, you’re reading it right. He’s a pirate trying to prevent Japanese ships from killing whales off the coast of Antarctica and so far, together with its crew they spared more than 300.

Most of the encounters were recorded and Animal Planet decided to air them in a new seven-part, hour-long weekly series starting Friday, November 7. After only three episodes, Whale Wars turned out to be the best performing Friday primetime telecast in the last five years with people showing real interest.

Where can you watch Whale Wars?

If you’re like me and missed the first episodes, don’t worry. You can watch Captain Paul Watson and his crew of 34, battling sea sickness, a helicopter accident, a dangerous encounter with a Japanese whaling boat and a hostage situation, on Animal Planet. There are four episodes at the moment and I’m looking forward for the next one. Meanwhile you can watch Animal Planet on YouTube.

Biofashion Show in Columbia

Tuesday
Dec 2,2008

Juan Herrera, Cristhian Vargas, Ibeth Jaramillo, Angelica Fernandez, and Pablo Dorado are Colombian fashion designers who know as much about fashion as I reckon any other fashion designer does. It looks good on stage but where you going to wear the things? These folks are different, however, because their fashion is all about bio-themed creations.

Cat of nine tails made into a skirt, ivy for stockings, leaves for covering things up, flowers for adornment, bamboo sheaves for I don’t know. Isn’t it possible that some people are trying too hard to capitalize on the eco-friendly trend.

And the problem is still the same – where you going to wear the things?

Images by Sina

Tuesday
Dec 2,2008

There is a good reason why I can’t feel for this woman.

Sometimes, Russian people want to prove they’re tough. One way of doing it is chaining bears to guard their homes, instead of dogs. Not that chaining dogs (or any other animals) is a good thing, but what she does – is SO WRONG. How can people be happy with a bear in their backyard? No more imagination for creating toys and we need to find something that breathes to entertain?

Can anyone come up with a good reason for all these? There’s something wrong about that!!!

[EnglishRussia via Zoso]

Tuesday
Dec 2,2008

The Windspire vertical wind turbine by Mariah Power is a noiseless way of powering your own home for cheap in a sustainable way. Using wind power to spin, this 29.5-foot-tall vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) it outputs 1.2 kW, will cost you some $5,000 and is able to provide 25-30% of the power needed in a typical house. Looking quite attractive it also packs a Wi-Fi transmitter so that you can monitor it online using your own computer. Count the 30% government rebate to the whole thing and you’ll end up with quite a deal.

Meanwhile Mariah Power is working on a larger 3 kW Windspire that – they say – will supply most of your house needs. – via Dvice

Monday
Dec 1,2008

There was a Hummer trying to do the eco-friendly dance in San Francisco last week. The best the H2 could do was say it runs off of E85 Ethanol. Does that count? The price – $63K. My advice to Hummer. Give it up.