Google-fu yeilds Lobster Moth catapillar. It appears to be insect-mimicry as a defense. WATCH OUT! I’M NOT A JUICY CATERPILLAR! I’M AN ANT! AND I’LL ANT BITE YOU!!!
It’s a combination of the phenomena of Faraday Waves and Plateau-Raleigh Instability. Was covered on io9 previously.
WHAT WAS IT??? DISH!
People don’t choose their turn-ons. Don’t judge. (If you can help it. Cuz some things people get off on are just gross. I feel bad for them!) To paraphrase Pascal, the boner has its reason where reason knows not.
Can I go outside nerd-dom? Red Hot Chili Peppers. Been saying for ten years all crap since BloodSugarSexMagic. Listened to BloodSugarSexMagic for first time in years digging through CDs. Aside from a couple songs it’s mediocre to shitty.
I know! The carousel, the sea monster, the cars, the bizarre guns. I love that place so much, even though it’s like a nightmare by the time you go through it all.
Expensive as he’ll, too, isn’t it?
Devil’s Tower.
When you visit, stay at the Don Q Inn. Theme rooms! An airplane on the lawn! Barber chairs! Why not?
Excellent choice. HOTR is totally insane. It is everything good or bad that you imaging it can be. You will love it, or hate it, or both in some measure. YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. (obvsly I’ve been a few times)
Yeah, but Gambit’s gonna suck.
...two village women — a mother and daughter — find they’re in for some new sexual experiences.
Card sharp is the original term, origin England, someone who is skilled at cheating. Card shark has replaced it in America, mostly, but it also refers to someone who is just plain very good, not necessarily a cheater.
Always winning. (by winning, I mean losing)
The chase/battle scene with the squelching, farting zombie digestive tract in Dead Alive beats the lawnmower scene for me. It chases our hero around the rafters of the building, “looking” around with it’s orifices.
Just in case all this IVF business is getting in the way of the dogma that it’s just a clump of cells, here’s a clump of cells.