What’s the well-dressed professional assassin wearing nowadays? Clothes that reflect his own essential traits of cruelty and ugliness, his abberant values and black dead heart - that’s what! You might not be a hired killer, but with the Dorcus line of Jackal Jackets you can stride onto the tarmac with a look that says: Women fall at my feet. Granted, they are usually bleeding heavily from the exit wound, but that's your style, tiger..

Note: price does not include sociopathic world view, Swiss bank account or significant dermatological scars whose humiliating disfigurement no doubt prompted your choice of career. Not available in British Caledonia at the moment, where they are still rather touchy over that matter with the visiting diplomat.




Don’t think we listen? Oh, we listen! We asked you, and you, and you: what’s the fresh new look for the season? And the answer always came back the same: you want to look like an aging French gigilo trying to blend into a harlequin convention.

Here our man Yves contemplates his next move. Dinner at the Ritz? The Opera? Servicing a married man who will throw the money at him afterwards and get angry? Je ne sais pas! Whatever the night demands, make sure your waistband is equidistant from crotch to nape. And keep a hand in your pocket where you keep the knife. The streets c’est froid, mon ami - but stylin’!

...from the Dorcus collection

1st Photo of Rare Rodent (Uncooked)

A feast for the eyes only, this is the first known Laotian rock rat to be photographed not on a skewer. It was a little over a year ago that a Wildlife Conservation Society scientist announced the discovery of the rodent species in a Laotian market. (See "New Rodent Discovered at Asian Food Market" [May 16, 2005].)

...from National Geographic

Lano and Woodley Farewell Tour

Drove down to Wollongong last night with Dale and Ben to see the Lano and Woodley final show. Lano and Woodley are an amazing comedy duo, in case you weren't in the know. They've actually been performing together for 20 years, which is something I didn't realise. It was great. Some very funny stuff.

Dale is a friend of mine from Melbourne that I 'met' when he was a customer for a company I was doing tech support for. We'd stuffed up the support for the laptop of one of the general managers of the company he was working for.. Anyway he the guy at their end, and I was the guy at our end. Over the course of a couple of weeks of nutting through these problems over the phone we actually became friends. So this was how we 'met'. We didn't actually meet face to face for another 3 years or so. That was when I went snowboarding in Jindabyne for a week and then went to hang with him in Melbourne for a week afterwards. Cool guy.
Hi Dale. Great to see you again. See you in another couple of years, as per our schedule ;)

Selfless, sensitive, altruistic? It's the cleaner fish

FISH are displaying random acts of kindness in the laboratory. A new study finds that some fish are altruistic simply because they want to earn a good reputation.

University of Queensland researchers say that until now only humans have been thought capable of acts that do not directly benefit themselves.

Dr Lexa Grutter said the interaction between cleaner fish and client fish is a well-known symbiotic relationship in which cleaner fish remove parasites from client fish. However, some cleaner fish are cheats and only remove mucus, which they prefer.

In the study, cleaner fish that were more trustworthy were sought out by client fish who wanted to avoid exploitation, she said. "Our research shows complicated behaviours in cleaner fish, where the benefit of co-operation was not reciprocated directly but instead gave them a good reputation," Dr Grutter said.

"This may be the important intermediate step to the more complex form of indirect reciprocity that humans are able to play, where each act is altruistic."

...from smh

oh man, look how expensive bananas are now...

oh man, look how expensive bananas are now...
Originally uploaded by zogg Jones.

Since Cyclone Larry wiped out 90% of Australia's banana crop, what was under $4 a kg is now this.
I love bananas... but right now, i can't get no banana-y love.