Lone Locust Productions

Day: August 16, 2006

  • A Whale of a Tale

    ABC.Net (Australia) => Ancient whale broke all the rules – 16/08/2006

    Recently published: The discovery of a new (extinct) species of fish hunting, dolphin-sized whales in Australia.

    Fitzgerald found that the fossil had specific features in the facial region and the base of the skull that marked it as a member of the baleen whale group, which today includes the enormous blue whale.

    But unlike modern baleen whales, which eat by filtering tiny krill and plankton from water, the fossil whale had teeth. It also had enormous eyes.

    “This animal was capturing big, single prey, which is unusual for a baleen whale,” Fitzgerald says. “It used the front of its mouth to grip its prey and rip it apart.”

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  • How do you use the scoop?

    ick

    Sure, I like to complain about the squat toilets in Taiwan, but at least the expectation is that you use toilet paper. (But don’t flush it, heavens no!)

    This photo of a squatter in Bali really makes you think: How do you use that scoop to clean yourself? Do you fill it with water, bend over and attempt to power splash yourself with it?

    I’ll stick with my electronic Japanese-style toilet seats, thank you.

    On a seperate note, this photo is from Alidarbac’s Flickr Page. I don’t know the guy, but he’s (usually) located in Taiwan, and he takes a lot of really nice photos. His is one of the very few Flickr photostreams that I subscribe to.


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