Links posted on August 31, 2005
If Walken doesn't do it for ya in 2008 - maybe you'd prefer to vote for someone a bit more resourceful?
Japanoid - if the gas crisis gets worse, maybe you can bring one of these back from Canada, eh?
In case you hadn't noticed, The Onion has opened up all of their archives back to 1996 for free and redesigned their whole site. (Don't worry about poor mrflip, his Onion Premium fees were prorated accordingly). The site redesign includes some new material including polls and a stock ticker and their new approach to excellent streaming premercials that you can't stop is discussed by the publisher.
Now I can finally link back to my favorite article ever: Super Monkey Collider Loses Funding.
My list of truly gnarly insects I've run into around these parts:
1) The dobson fly has a body several inches long and some serious looking mandibles. In real life those fuckers are freaky!
2) toe biters are nasty because they look like giant roaches and deliver a powerful and painful bite.
3) Centepedes like the one found in the tiny picture near the bottom of the page (note that it's from Austin) are friggin huge (that one was 8") and can actually sting you. I've caught one of those before in the chemistry building in san marcos. The thought of one crawling across my stomach at night gives me the willies.
4) scorpions. Nuff said.
5) Tarantulas are friggin' huge, even though the ones I've seen around here aren't nearly as big as they come.
6) trap door spider. Guess that "baby tarantula" I caught wasn't what I thought it was. At least the species is related to tarantulas.
Bush might call for nation wide energy conservation. Hell reportedly a plesant 75 degrees and falling.