Oh. The two on the right are fingertips, not knuckles. Whew. For a minute there I thought Hawkeye had two left hands, which would have given him a whole different reason for joining the circus.

OMG, Hawkeye’s thumb is on the wrong side of his hand!

I was coming off the DC Beltway on my R65 BMW one afternoon and a rabbit decided it was time to explore the lane. The rabbit was only wounded (by my bike, anyway), and I managed to keep the rubber side down, but it was pretty hairy for a second or two.

True, and humans have symbiotic bacteria living in our guts, but when someone is killed by a tiger, we don’t say, “The tiger killed a colony of bacteria.”

Cute article, if a trifle horrific. Personally, I get more concerned about the fish with more "fishy" teeth, like sharks and barracuda, or poison injectors like man-o-wars, stingrays and lionfish (all of which seem to enjoy the balmy waters of coastal Georgia where I occasionally go near the water).
One small point,…

I was at Disclave that year.
Had to drive my buddy home in Viking costume (and no license) and talked my way past a D.C. police officer who (I suspect) was amazed to find a guy in a tunic and chain mail driving a Buick.

USS Canon, Turbojet powered patrol boat and the most-decorated ship of the Vietnam War.

I was there for the premier (Uptown Theater on Connecticut Avenue in Wash, D.C.) and it was unbearable. Those who had followed the lead-up ads and the storyboard release in Heavy metal Magazine (up to the landing of the Nostromo on LV426) had no idea what was coming.
As a young-ish man at the time (just turned 20), I…

Had a senior moment and visualized this:

Well, related to the D.C./Va. Potomac thing, Maryland claims all of the North Branch of the Potomac with W. Va., and W.Va. has/had some kind of claim to the entirety of the Big Sandy River in its common border with Kentucky.
Back when states were more independent, River borders were apparently set along banks, and the…

Actually, not that unusual. The South Carolina/Georgia border is on the northern bank of the Savannah River.
An unusual anecdote about Savannah (and it's historic squares):

That was Gary Palpatine.
Gary Larson did the Far Side, IIRC.

Polly want a cracker, NOW!!

Seriously, low vocalization for prey detection? They used sonar?
Nature, you are one sick twisted old broad.

Dr. Who (Tom Baker era, "Revenge of the Cybermen"): "That's Cybermen for you; hydraulic muscles and hydraulic brains."

those are probably 17s, which would make her about 30 inches tall.

It had better be a darn short movie, or the stars will dry out and get all crumbly.

And here I thought kairomones were the sound you hear when the Egyptians have another fake election.

I have an Elgin RR watch that is dated 1892 (still works!). Other than that, probably the contents of my sock drawer.
I also have an igneous rock that I am pretty sure is several million years old.