many things

animals:
1) cute, making friends w other animals:http://letsbefriends.blogspot.com/
2) not cute, eating other animals:http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/death-is-milliseconds-away/10927


cartoon (from hip hipster trio: andrew bird, chris ware, and this american life):
http://www.booooooom.com/2009/05/12/quimby-the-mouse-chris-ware/


sometimes it is just fun to reminisce about star treks of yore:

http://movies.ign.com/articles/980/980062p1.html



consider also these awkward family photos:
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

gross

this post about parasitic worms is one of the most disgusting things i've ever read:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-horrific-parasitic-worms/10497

dutch tulip fields

ummm, who knew? who knew a countryside could look like this? i didn't:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29388274@N07/2746649399/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1942657/The-week-in-pictures-May-9-2008.html?image=4

depressing, disgusting, purifying

a depressing, but very cool statue in nyc:
http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=615

a man with two penises and an actual third leg. this can't be real, can it?
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/man-with-two-penises/9439

plants that can purify the air in your home:
http://webecoist.com/2009/04/08/air-purifying-plants/

four links

1) what the world looks like through the eyes of animals:
http://webecoist.com/2009/01/14/animal-vision-color-detection-and-color-blindness/

2) why I am more productive outside of the city:
http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/01/memory-improved-20-by-nature-walk.php

3)real love and anti-love potions. really honest to goodness:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/science/13tier.html?_r=1&em

4)this article is scary, but it provides a balanced look at why the bombing in gaza isn't helping anyone:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/opinion/14goldberg-1.html?em

smart kids, helpful pets, and gorey tips on being deflowered

in reverse order:

edward gorey wrote a weird-ass book about women being deflowered:
http://community.livejournal.com/found_objects/3699822.html?page=1

animals are so fucking awesome i can hardly handle it (dogs are the best):
http://webecoist.com/2009/01/05/disabled-animals-pets-rescue-owners/

these kids are already more successful than me, and it makes me feel a little happy and a little sad:
http://razoo.com/articles/Five_Kids_Who_Made_the_World_a_Better_Place

design and artstuffs

3D graffiti art seriously blows my mind. how do they do that? :
http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/29/top-10-3d-graffiti-artists-in-the-world/

glow-in-the dark solar powered mason jars:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/994a/

easy/cool snow sculptures that we can do a-plenty this winter in chicago:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/8-incredible-snow-face-sculptures/5310

and, spiders are probably the best designers. here's how a spider builds her web:
http://bitsandpieces.us/2009/01/05/how-spiders-make-their-webs/

snowflakes!

seriously amazingly beautiful

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photos/photos.htm

mexican walking fish

looks like a creature from labyrinth:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/ubercool_mexica.php

crazy awesome art

this artist paints things invisible; it's rad:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/incredible-camouflage-art/4793

these artists grow trees into useful living furniture:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/trees-grow-furniture/3224

environmental graffiti is a good blog, eh?

aminals

i love 'em

http://webecoist.com/2008/08/24/strangest-endangered-species-and-animals/

cool bugs

cool bug #1 (a hot-pink catydid):
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/the-strangest-camouflage-in-the-world/3058

cool bug #2 (covers itself in pretty things):
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/amazing-technicolored-coat-of-the-caddisfly/3971

Math and Nature

Link #8: We've heard about fractals occurring in nature and Fibonacci and all that jazz, but never have the photos been so dazzling:

http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/