I've seen two of them in Mendocino County since we moved here in '95. Very cool. Once while driving and the whole valley lit up like daylight. The other I was walking the dog at 2:00 AM and the sky was so clear it left a faint but visible trail.

I think what's being challenged is at what point do you delineate avian from non-avian dinosaurs. basically, does flight define the transition? There's no reason that wings (Edit: feathered bird's wings that is) should have had their early development driven by the goal of flight, so at what point do you call it a…

We have a resident raven pair we feed, They have an uneasy truce with the local scrub jay band. When we put out food for the ravens, they often specifically perch to eat their food juuuust out of range of the cats or dogs because the cats will not take them on, but the jays will not get that close to the cats so the…

we were in BC, which has the same laws, and had a pod of orcas come up around our sail boat and ogle us for a while. The local whale watching boat and Fisheries people who were there were actually quite jealous. You CANNOT approach whales, but if they approach you, it's their choice and all OK provided you do not…

Not really a surprise if people use the anonymity of most online forums to let their basic trollish nature free. I am however slightly more (and it's a pretty slight slightly) surprised when people do so on social networks where their identity is rather less obscured. The fact that you can regularly find trolls being…

This whole idea, combined with the illustration, is so weirdly insanely wrong it crosses right into awesome and has made me happy.

...aaaand I was just adding another reference for people who might be interested in material exploring possible social aspects of the evolution of this sort of technology. Period.

David Brin's "Earth" features a society wherein virtually everyone has access to TruVue goggles which not only record everything seen but upload it instantly.

Maple-bacon anything, anything at all.

Thought it was you but was not sure based on the way it was listed in notifications. Thank you for star restoration. :)

Awww! Cuddly!

Ooooh! Thank you to whomever for the star! My Twitter account got hacked and took my ordinal, years old io9 account down with it. Sniff. The internet suddenly felt very lonely and cold. :|

We'll see. I've got some blood reds germinating, some giant/mammoths ground sown too. I bought seeds for giant reds but I don't count on things living up to the ads until they actually do.

Whatever praise for this great photo and pithy comment I was going to make was nudged out of my brain when I saw that the sponsored link ad popping up was for a wedding photographer:

The trite response is the obligatory "Well, better my own than someone else's..."

And THIS is why I click over to io9 first thing when I get my computer on. These are fantastic.

The thing is, good or bad, they don't need you or I or any adult or even teen who sees the movie or might to buy them.