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"Echidnas and the Platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes. The female lays a single soft-shelled, leathery egg twenty-two days after mating and deposits it directly into her pouch. Hatching takes ten days; the young echidna, called a puggle, then sucks milk from the pores of the two milk patches (monotremes have no nipples) and remains in the pouch for forty-five to fifty-five days, at which time it starts to develop spines. The mother digs a nursery burrow and deposits the puggle, returning every five days to suckle it until it is weaned at seven months." - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet

Puggle is such a cute word - anna awesomesauce

A puggle! Cute and disgusting at the same time. And what is the mama echidna doing for the 5 days it leaves the burrow? Is she down the pub, smoking and buying scratch cards with her family allowance?! - WorldofHiglet

"Paul Krugman, who won this year's Nobel Prize for economics, told CNBC that the Treasury Department's move to inject banks with $250 billion is better than the original bailout plan. He said, "In the last six days this thing has come together with a plan that really does address the critical problem of inadequate capital at the banks (and) addresses the need for guarantees to calm the markets down. We don’t know this is going to work, I wish we were sure, but this is a much better. For the first time I’m starting to feel that policy is really getting some traction on the crisis.”" - Dan Hsiao via Bookmarklet

"As for his win, Krugman was skeptical when he got the call from the Nobel prize committee, "My immediate conclusion was that was an obviously fake Swedish accent." Princeton University, where Krugman is a professor at the Department of Economics and in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, feted him yesterday--and John Nash, retired Princeton mathematician, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics, and Hollywood biopic subject, was on hand to help celebrate (pictured)." - Dan Hsiao

awesome - whiteboard

thats great...thanks for sharing! - (jeff)isageek

"If you've been in Norway this past year or so, you may have happened upon The Strømer, an interactive LED wall that turns shadows into light. Based on architect Stig Skjelvik's Dobpler prototype, the display lights up as people move through Norway's Sandnes Sentrum pedestrian tunnel, leaving illuminated trails in their wake. Constructed as part of the city's European Capitol of Culture 2008 event, it's unknown how long the wall will be up." - Chris White via Bookmarklet

"For those of you who have remained resolute in your belief that things will turn around eventually, I urge you to close your eyes, take shallow rapid breaths, and begin freaking out immediately," Bush added. "At this point, anyone who isn't scared to death needs to wake the fuck up—because we're screwed here." - Chris White via Bookmarklet

Vote for Bark Obama or McCanine! - Melody Lan via Bookmarklet

I thought they gave away the signs? - Victor Ryden

When i got my bumper sticker they asked for a $1 donation. - Georgia Diehl

"Transformers was as big a movie in China as it was in the USA, a generation of Chinese men grew up watching the first foreign cartoon to be allowed into the PRC and thus, a cult following has been built up around Transformers in China. One man in Zhejiang province, Mr. Zhu, let his enthusiasm for Transformers get the better of him, he actually built a few of his own Transformer robots out of used car parts, including an old BMW 735i front end, which he bought from a scrap car dealer." - Corie "Viper" Jones via Bookmarklet

and raise a bunch of money from rich folks to pay for the boondoggle. - MikeAmundsen

http://friendfeed.com/e/8800cc... - MikeAmundsen

Small pox are better than large pox, right, Clare? - Gabe

oh, that was a good, needed laugh - Michael W. May via twhirl

ditto what MwM said. funny. - pea♥ is just a girl

My personal favorite is the third one...it is ridiculously small but packs 8 Gigabytes!! - Zee from WeDoCreative via Bookmarklet

The iPod one is really cute. - xero

105. I don't think I can hold out that long. - Kevin D. White

'But she is determined not to let things get out of hand [on her birthday]. 'I'm hardly likely to get drunk and do something silly at my age,' she said'. Too bad, could be her last chance to score. - Sprague D

nuns do live longer.... - anna awesomesauce

WANT!!! But I think I'll put my desk in there instead of a bed. - Rachel L Fox via Bookmarklet

Wicket ftw! - Mona N.

Yeah, but I tweaked the photo wrong. :P - l0ckergn0me

OMG!!! <333 - Anna Haro

Wicket's one of the most adorable dog I've seen. :) - Molly, the Vampy Vampire

"Why, in a nutshell, was our reporting different from so much other reporting? One important reason was that we sought out the dissidents, and we listened to them, instead of serving as stenographers to high-ranking officials and Iraqi exiles. I'm afraid that much the same thing may have happened on Wall Street. Power and money and celebrity, in other words, can blind you. Somehow, the idea has taken hold in Washington journalism that the value of a source is directly proportional to his or her rank, when in my experience the relationship is more often inverse." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

Well put. - j1m

Meow - Nicholas Kreidberg

i'm sorry to hear about spike. :( ps - i called you yesterday. - Corie "Viper" Jones

its lovelyy - anahita

Okay, that's pretty neat/funny. But am I the only clueless soul who had no idea that people took professional photos for *engagements*? I knew weddings, but... - Adam Lasnik

Suuuure, it looks fine and happy now, but you just wait... ...sooner or later, he'll give her a bad coupon. - fac287

@Ryo ..or flee market? :P - Jagtesh Chadha

Cuuuuuute! - Mona N.

greatest thing ever. - Amber aka SDA

Now you just need little cherries and other fruit. Yum. - Anna Choi

The problem is, let's say you are laid off and your kid needs a computer for school. Are you going to buy a $400 Netbook or a $800 Apple computer? I know which one will win in my budget. - Robert Scoble

Interesting...you should pay for quality in hard times b/c that lasts longer but if you are preparing someone for work, the Corporate as a whole uses windows based machines. Ultimately if you buy an apple you have to use windows products on it... - Anthony Farrior

thing is, you're not buying "quality" either.. they're made of the same kit as other laptops by the same fabs that other laptop firms outsource to. In general, over the past 4 years I have noticed *all* laptop manufacturers have been ratcheting down the quality of their parts. We found a massive design flaw with toshiba sat pro L10 and L20's where the hinge snaps off the frame! - alphaxion

I think the Face-Palm Blog would have been more to the point - Rah™

nice one, alan. :) - Corie "Viper" Jones

چرا اخه؟ - shandiz

Reshared from Henru's private feed - Dan Hsiao

Kevin: Yep, that there is two homophones, not a word. I like the way Trebek appears to blame the contestant for.....well, I'm not sure what - j1m

Technically whores are not pleasure seekers, they do it for a living - Shakeel Mahate

Palin as Jar-Jar Binks = FULL OF WIN - Cyndy

Oh I soooooo love things that make me laugh as of late and this is one of them. - Mark Krynsky

HAHAHA... the one with the phones are so nice. LOL. Nut they are all genius. Great. - Ryo

Reality one-ups the Onion: "ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On the eve of a report on a legislative panel's abuse-of-power investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report clearing her of any wrongdoing." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

I think the American people are hungry for that straight talk. - Shawn Farner

I guess they didn't get the report: http://www.adn.com/palin/story... - Gabe

Cute! - BeeLing