From boingboing.net we find a video of a thick fuzzy patch of moss on a tree.

Oh wait!

that’s not moss!.

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGG!

You’ve seen the Blendtec commercials where they put all sorts of cool stuff in the blender and let ‘er rip?

Well, here’s the same concept, but from a toilet manufacturer.

Three and a half pounds of dry dog food. 18 large hot dogs. 20 golf balls.

WILL… IT… FLUSH??!!

I had no idea that one of my favorite movies as a teen was actually a parody of a 1950’s film.

We must have seen Airplane! a dozen times by the time I graduated high school. After seeing these clips, I don’t think I could watch Zero Hour! all the way through without reciting dialogue from Airplane!

An interesting concept from a group in Britain.

Their plan is to tax non-customer-related transactions that the banks do. All the speculation and things that ended up causing the problems in the last few years would be taxed at .05% per transaction. The end result would raise hundreds of billions of dollars.

Personally I think they are being a little naive to think that this won’t simply end up being passed on to the customer in higher fees and interest rates, but the video stars Bill Nighy, and that means it’s okay in my book.

As I’ve posted before, we’ve been looking into getting a dog for quite a while now. We finally picked her up on Wednesday.

Her name is Diva. She’s a labradoodle that was just retired from breeding. She’s going to be 5 in June.

Her mother is a medium standard poodle, and her father is an F1 labradoodle, so she’s 3/4 poodle, 1/4 lab.

She got a bath to get her smelling like a dog instead of like a kennel full of dogs. Wow, does her hair hold water…

Then she spent some time soaking her feet, which are a little raw (we’re guessing from the concrete floors at the breeder).

Here she is!

She’s always that mellow. We’ve never heard her bark. She will let us examine her paws, play with her food while she’s eating, examine inside her ears, just about anything without a fuss at all. She already walks on a slack leash (no dragging us around!). She sleeps through the night in her crate at the foot of our bed. She never jumps up on anyone or anything. We can’t believe how great she is.

Now if we can just get her to “do her business” in the right place in the backyard…