i’m really enjoying charmedbetta’s photostream.

doesn’t this remind you of the scene in the truman show when jim carrey finds the wall?

heartbreaking.

ok, one more fish post.

title: “guppy graphic standards”

the best.

“The long and trailing tail of the veiltail is delicate and can be easily damaged. Veiltails are also susceptible to low water temperatures. Telescope-eyed veiltails have difficulty competing for food with more active goldfish.”

Oh, also, they are not good swimmers.
Yikes.

How to do a Gorilla portrait

“I approached the glass with a submissive posture, looking down at the ground and backing up with my hand out. The gorilla loved it. He had never seen a human act like a polite ape before. He came right up to the glass and posed for me while I did this half-hour portrait. He watched me draw with a professional interest. Every ten minutes or so he wanted me to show him how I was coming along on the sketch.”

Design for a Living World is a landmark exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York that opens an important conversation between conservationists and designers about the potential and legacy of natural materials. Presented by The Nature Conservancy and co-curated by Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton, the exhibition has commissioned 10 designers from the worlds of fashion, industrial and furniture design to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials from a specific place where the Conservancy works.

Closes early 2010!

The New York Times ‘Idea of the Day’

More Wikipedia articles are written about fictional places like Middle Earth than about many countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia, a new map reveals. Behold the “terra incognita” of the Internet…

Giving up hope? Or planning for the inevitable?

Newly Discovered Enzyme Could Create Crops That Thrive in Dry, High CO2 Conditions : TreeHugger

The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt This book is awesome.