Picture: 30 Rock: Vending Machine

I just wish the vending machine worked in my office more than 20% of the time (and of course if it didn’t have junk loaded in it, but I would be lying if I didn’t say there weren’t a few healthy options).

Quote: Hubert Reeves: Nature and God

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.” — Hubert Reeves Photo: Julia Ceasar, Stocksnap

Video: Hunter S. Thompson: Hell’s Angels Outtakes

PBS animated some old interviews from Hunter S. Thompson on his time with the Hell’s Angels. Photo: Mitch Hell, Flickr

Philly kills hitchhiking robot

A hitchhiking robot that successfully navigated its way through Canada has been destroyed. In America. In Philadelphia. According to HitchBot’s creators: hitchBOT’s trip came to an end last night in Philadelphia after having spent a little over two weeks hitchhiking and visiting sites in Boston, Salem, Gloucester, Marblehead, and New York City. Unfortunately, hitchBOT was […]

Video: Russian domesticated foxes

So… Russia attempted (and seemingly succeeded) in domesticating wild foxes via selective breeding. Via Wikipedia: The result of over 50 years of experiments in the Soviet Union and Russia, the breeding project was set up in 1959[1] by Soviet scientist Dmitri Belyaev. It continues today at The Institute of Cytology and Genetics at Novosibirsk, under […]