This Week In Internet: Buffalos, Babies, and a Pre-Announcement Announcement
Feb 02, 2007
Before we get to our regularly-scheduled "This Week In Internet" report, I have to announce something; or, more accurately, I have to announce that I will be announcing something on Monday. It's going to be good! Exciting! Fun for all of us! So please check back early on Monday.*
And now, your links. This week's theme: "E is for . . ."
ENGINEERING:
Engineering girls bare (almost) all
"The
Girls of Engineering 2007 calendar has one stipulation: All the models
are students in Engineering at the University." (via Fark)
EMBRYOS
Custody Battle of the Future
"In the middle of the battle wasn't three children, but three embryos they created together."
ENGLISH ECCENTRICITIES
Wikipedia entry for "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
(via Phylan, thanks)
ENLIGHTENING
In My Language
(via Kottke)
Autistic woman's demonstration of what she calls her "native language," plus a translation in English, as a "
statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not."
EGAD
Woman gives birth to 'giant baby'
"A woman in Brazil has given birth to a 'giant baby' weighing 17lb (8kg) - twice the size of an average newborn." (via
linkbunnies)
Woman, 27, found after two decades lost in jungle
"
A woman who went missing 19 years ago as an eight-year-old in the
remote jungles of Cambodia has reappeared after apparently living rough
and scavenging food for almost two decades." (via Look At This)
ENDLESSLY ENTERTAINING:
Pictaps
Draw something and it will dance for you. (via linkbunnies)
EW:
A town called Feces
Sweet. (via Look At This)
EXPLOSION
Close-up of exploded pop can
"This is what happens when you leave a pop can in the freezer to chill it and forget about it for a while."
EXAGGERATION
Scenes from Sundance
Gwyneth Paltrow is never not annoying to me. (via
overeducated and underemployed)
EXCELLENT
OMGWTFPOLARBEAR
My favorite Cute Overload post in a while, and that's saying a lot.
*OK, I will give you a little hint to tide you over: the big announcement involves 11 people and a bathroom fixture. Seriously.
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