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The Duck Hunt lamp will go perfect on my Blades of Steel coffee table.

Get yer ass over to one of Olivier's many blogs and wish the old man a Happy Birthday!

The ChipperDemon's April CD release includes a beautiful cover of one my favorite songs of all time.

My personal power-animal, the platypus, has finally had its genome sequenced. Of course we know the platypus is a chimeric combination of a unicorn and one of hell's duck-demons, but did you know:

The sex of the platypus is determined by a set of ten chromosomes, an oddity that sets it apart from all other mammals and from birds...“The sex chromosomes are absolutely, completely different from all other mammals. We had not expected that,” says Jennifer Graves of the Australian National University in Canberra, who studies sex differentiation and is an author on the paper. Instead, the platypus Xs better match the avian Z sex chromosome. Another chromosome matches the mouse X, Graves and her colleagues report

I might start calling shennannigans on Darwin for this one.

"I too live in a small place that at least has high ceilings--or they may be low floors, it's hard to say. My place is overflowing with Malcolm-Jamal Warner memorabilia, so I know what you're going through. If you're living with someone, maybe you could kick them out to make room for your stuff. After I moved my grandparents into mini-storage, I was able to move around more freely."

The top 10 "Wild Card" submission to the New Ideas contest have been selected and now it is up to the internet to select its favorite. Go forth and vote.

Lord offers parenting advice in the form of cartoons.

I've got a couple of friends who grew up in Wisconsin. They love Brett Favre as much as the next cheesehead. Well, that is unless the next cheesehead is a kid who wore the same Brett Favre jersey for 1,561 days in a row.

Evan went on a strange mushroom foraging kick last year. We are all much happier he is brewing his own beer now instead. Let's hope this TED Talk doesn't re-ignite the mushroom flames.