Coffee and Provocation

Pythons across America?
South Florida has a large and problematic feral python population that began with pet releases about 25 years ago. Now folks at the U.S. Geological Survey are beginning to wonder how far these giant snakes (up to 20 feet and more than 200 pounds) might go in their colonization efforts, and the answer is a bit surprising. In the future, we may have feral pythons as far north as Virginia and all across the south and southwest.

Is the Wolf Returning to Massachusetts?
Massachusetts just found its first wild eastern Grey Wolf, after more than a dozen lambs and sheep were slaughtered at a Shelburne, Massachusetts farm last fall. Where did the wolf come from? Nothing suggests the 85-pound animal escaped or was set free by someone keeping it as a pet, and authorities say it may simply be a long-range scout moving south from Maine, Vermont or New Hampshire where there is already a very small wolf population. Wolves can travel 400 miles or more when seeking new ranges.

Whippet Good (the T-shirt):
There's at least person who read this blog who remembers the band Devo and who also has a whippet. This shirt is for him. Mugs, totes, and dog shirts too, of course.

The Hockneyizer: The Hockneyizer will create a simulated collage from any single photograph a-la David Hockney. Very cool -- check it out.

Top Ten Self-Made Mutant Humans: People are the most bizarre animals on earth, and if you want to see some of the most troubled of these souls act out in a public way, simply click here.

The Conservation Report blog is a nice free-wheeling blog of the kind of stuff I like to read about. Check it out.

Oddee is a site that is well done; a collection of the bizarre and offbeat, such as the "20 most fascinating cave paintings," the "7 most beautiful oases," 7 worst plagues in history," etc. Check it out.

Dark Roasted Blend, like Oddee (see above), is a little of a lot of odd stuff. My kind of place. Check it out.

Terrarossa means "red-staters" (sort of) but this web site is really about free-market energy solutions: "Markets and profits, not more government subsidies. Less moolah for mullahs. 'Fear not' as opposed to fear-mongering."

Population Zero is the new National Geographic show that will show you what happens after (and if) we are gone. Lot of things fall down, but pigeons and cats do great in the old cities.

Gundog Magazine is a nice looking web site on exactly what is says it is about. See the nice article on the Brittany, for example, and others on field vet care, etc.