Oh, look, dear. There's a lion on your porch.

Hello, delicious poodle

Cougars in Massachusetts? If not now, then soon, suggests this Globe article.

Okay, yeah, I'm increasingly hooked on these Glob RSS feeds. I dunno why the damn paper looks so much more interesting viewed through SharpReader than through the reg'lar web.

Update: I feel like I should clarify my own views on the suburbanization of big cats. I think it's great! We need more big scary wild animals in our lives. Personally--and I say this as someone who's never handled a working firearm in his life--if the price of combining sound ecosystems and personal safety is carrying a rifle when I go for a walk in the forest, I'll pay that price with pleasure. Bring it on, as our beloved and respected president would say.

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The Well of Despair

Boston Globe / Ideas / Monkey love

A powerful, disturbing article about the work of primate researcher Harry Harlow, with a totally inappropriate "cute" title.

Squick warning: Describes some chillingly cruel experiments.

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Underwood casemod

mini-itx.com - projects - underwood no. 5

An insane canadian gutted an old mechanical typewriter and built a computer inside, complete with typewriter-key sound effects when he uses the keyboard.

While the paint was drying, I removed the glass topped typewriter keys from the typebars. Each key needed to be hack-sawed from the typebar and then ground down....Thankfully, everything fit.

Points get deducted for his apparently having to lift the machine every time he wants to insert a CD. Points fully restored for the carriage return actually working.

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Zombocom!

Zombocom is my personal definition of "inexplicably hillarious. Warning: requires Flash.

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