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Video: Crow and a kitten -- best friends - Animalia

Video: Crow and a kitten -- best friends - Animalia

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BBC NEWS | Magazine | Please, I want some more

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Please, I want some more

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7...

The annual debate in our family begins in the run-up to Christmas, and is about the size of the turkey. As the chef, I favour a small, naturally-reared bird, and like to prepare it the way the French do, with a flavoursome chestnut, apple, salt pork and fresh herb stuffing, bound together with a couple of eggs.

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids: Scientific American

Bookmarked. Courtesy of Jay

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids: Scientific American

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=t...

Scientific American Mind - December, 2007The Secret to Raising Smart KidsHint: Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life By Carol S. Dweck

Ads that make you want to watch them

Ad Breakdown's pick of 2007
Gives links to the best ads on 2007 on UK TV, which I have copy/pasted below. Some are better than others, and they are all pretty UK based (other than the US version specified) but are just funny!

Sony Bravia rabbits

Skoda Fabia cake

Guinness Dominoes advert

Cadbury Gorilla

The Female Flake

PC World

DFS

M&S Food

WKD spoofs

Mac v PC ads (UK version)

Mac V PC ads (US version)

M&S clothes

Vodafone raining watch parts

Vodafone Time Theft

New Related Link

Mail on Sunday

I still love this one the best ~ Cat Herding!

Tigers are dangerous, mKay?

Tiger attacks visitors at US zoo

One person has been killed and two others injured after a tiger escaped from its cage at San Francisco Zoo.

All of the victims were visitors to the zoo, a spokesman for San Francisco emergency services said.

The Siberian tiger, named Tatiana, was the same one that mauled a keeper just before Christmas last year. It has now been shot dead.

The incident occurred as the zoo was closing around 1700 (0100 GMT). It is not clear how the cat escaped its pen.

Found on [TIG], The Art of the Regift

The Art of the Regift

http://everythingeileen.vox.com/libra...

I'm a regifter. I admit it. I think it's very difficult to not regift, only because I receive a lot of very nice gifts (usually from people who don't know me well) that aren't necessarily my taste and that I know someone else would like to have. And such is the way of the regift. I think regifting...

Interesting and worth remembering. Also very ethically Green, with the emphasis on Recycle :)

Festive greetings 'from Heaven'

A man from the US state of Oregon has stunned friends and relatives by sending them Christmas cards, two months after his own death.

The 34 handwritten cards were sent and signed by Chet Fitch, who died in October aged 88, with "Heaven" given as the return address.

In a message on the cards, Mr Fitch said God had allowed him back to Earth specially to deliver the cards.

But his barber told local media they had planned the ruse together.

Patty Dean, 57, was quoted by the Ashland Daily Tidings newspaper as saying Mr Fitch had approached her with the idea in 1987, saying he wanted to play one last trick on people after his death.

She said he told her a week before his death that she would probably be able to send the cards this year.

The card showed Mr Fitch square-dancing with his wife Jessie, who herself died in 1995.

"I asked Big Guy if I could sneak back and send some cards," he wrote in the card.

"At first he said no; but at my insistence he finally said, 'Oh well, what the heaven, go ahead but don't [tarry] there.'

"Better get back as Big Guy said he stretched a point to let me in the first time, so I had better not press my luck," he ended the message.

"I'll probably be seeing you (some sooner than you think). Wishing you a very Merry Christmas."

Friends and relatives were both amazed and amused.

Mr Fitch's daughter, Tangren Alexander, described the card as "sweet and funny. So much like him".

"When I opened his card, all I could think was: 'You little stinker,'" said Debbie Hansen-Bernard, an old friend.

Story from BBC NEWS: Published: 2007/12/25 17:26:12 GMT © BBC MMVII

Christmas traditions

Phoning my brother in Australia, via telediscount so it is only 1p a minute. OK, this is 60p an hour but we are talking about Australia here!

11 hours difference ~ it is already nearly 11am Christmas day there.

So, Merry Christmas / Seasons Greetings / Yuletide / etc

Santa is on the Radar

NORAD are tracking Santa ~ Currenly he is in Iles Crozet, French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Tentacular Chandelier

Tentacular Chandelier

Fancy something a little different for your home decor?
Fan of Cthulu mythos?
Or of Cephalopods in general, particularly the Octopus?

Get yourself an Octopoidal Chandelier! Comes in a small number of interesting colours, with or without seashell ornamentation and additional lights / crystals.

Just, perhaps, leave the light on for those evenings stumbling around in the dark....

Many more fine tentacular pictures