[link | via 3QuarksDaily]
"Most larvae aren't blessed with a strong set of noisemakers. So it's a safe bet that they must get their parents' attention in some other way. Recognizing that bugs tend to use chemical signals to communicate with each other, evolutionary biologist Edmund Brodie III of Indiana University, Bloomington, wondered if baby insects speak by stinking."
Acrid smell of peas
Dung beetle moms sleep soundly
Roll poo tomorrow
"Beginning in 1998 with injections in his buttocks of Winstrol, a powerful steroid, Barry Bonds took a wide array of performance-enhancing drugs over at least five seasons in a massive doping regimen that grew more sophisticated as the years went on, according to Game of Shadows, a book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters at the forefront of reporting on the BALCO steroid distribution scandal."
Quiet dignity
Smearing creams on my buttcheeks
Fuck off role model
[link | Thanks Kat!]
"If Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan has his way, a new town being built in Florida will be governed according to strict Roman Catholic principles, with no place to get an abortion, pornography or birth control. The pizza magnate is bankrolling the project with at least $250 million and calls it 'God's will.'"
Check the door, it's...Christ?
"Hey, do you have any porn?"
Gotta cut footloose
[link | via BoingBoing]
"This is a my street-legal jet car on full afterburner. The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine and when you want to have some fun, you spin up the jet and get on the burner (you can start the jet while driving along on the gasoline engine). The car was built because I wanted the wildest street-legal ride possible."
On the road of life
There are charred pedestrians
Think small and crazy