BBC Madagascar – Lost Worlds 2011 [2 of 3]

With cyanide-eating lemurs, cannibalistic frogs, carnivorous plants, tadpole-eating wasps, tunnel-digging chameleons and house-proud flycatchers, this second episode of the natural history series about one of the most intriguing wild places on Earth, narrated by David Attenborough, features an amazing array of Madagascar’s wildlife.
Over half of Madagascar’s unique species live in the narrow band of mountains and rainforest on the island’s eastern coast. This is the land of the unexpected.
A few troops of ringtailed lemurs have made their home at the top of the coldest mountain on the island, in the Andringitra Highlands. To fight the sub-zero temperatures they have developed thick coats, but can only survive the freezing nights by huddling together in rocky crevices.
Just a few hundred metres lower, the forests are permanently shrouded in clouds. This is the last sanctuary of the elusive, ghostly white silky sifaka. There are thought to be only 200 of these playful and endearing creatures left.
Lower again into the lush rainforests, thickets of 30-metre-high bamboo hide one of Madagascar’s most remarkable animals — the golden bamboo lemur, only discovered a few years ago. It’s extraordinarily specialised, eating just one species of bamboo: a plant loaded with highly toxic cyanide. Every day they consume 12 times the lethal dose of this poison with no ill effects — no one knows how they can do this.
In just a few remote places, luxuriant rainforests reach right down to the Indian Ocean. Big and noisy, strikingly colourful red-ruffed lemurs boss their way around these rich forests, defending fruiting trees from troops of raiding white-faced brown lemurs. Their massive consumption of fruit is vital to the health of these eastern forests, as they are the only way seeds are spread throughout the forest.
The behind-the-scenes Madagascar Diaries feature the challenges of filming the red-ruffed lemurs.

J-dub enters the photo booth

So this happened.

Hipstamatic Southside Chicago

This is a dessert joint on the southside. You should go sometime.

“Homosexuality is a sin, Lacey, and it is in black and white in the Bible”

I found this one day and thought it would be great to post some distant day down the road when I couldn’t remember where I found it.

Zach Anner interviews Oprah!

Did I say Zach Anner interviewed Oprah? I meant, Oprah interviewed Anner. Anner turns it around toward the end. Regardless, this is a great few moments.

We all need Anner.

Be sure to hold out until the end when the editor threw in a cutaway to another contestant’s face who is angry that Anner turned the tables on the interview.

Beck’s & FOX News’ Anti-Christ prophet? – Rachel Maddow

When I read through a thread of discussion on a Christian blog or forum, I can’t make it through. The crazy is mind blowing. Sometimes I’ll be impressed by a believers’ opening sentence, and start gagging with every subsequent sentence.

When I’ve watched clips of Glenn Beck or even turned on his show, I force myself to listen and finally turn it off after having my mind bent from the woo that people think and listen to.

I could hardly make it to the end of this Rachel Maddow clip. I can’t believe Maddow took the time to report on Beck explaining the anti-Christ to his viewers. Doesn’t her reportage somehow give more credence to Beck’s inanity? Then again, you can’t stand idly by while the invisible, unprovable evils in the world are recognized on national television as if its true.

And now I feel compelled to put this stupid clip in front of you.

Our brains must all be sick.

I have sold myself to a devil that doesn’t exist.

Honk.

Via Joe. My. God.

I love to shoot kids

Tonight, Tina and I spent the evening with our friends Mike and Angie. I toted along some photography equipment so I can practice setting it up and tearing it down. The point is to be able to jump into most any situation, shoot quickly and leave.

These were a couple shots I grabbed of their kids Marty and Nora.