Possibly an improvement; an interview with the Tribune‘s Social Media and SEO editor, Amy Guth, is online at Gizmodo in a post entitled, Q&A With the Chicago Tribune Editors Who Put a Cat on Their Homepage.
Animals
Animals, Weird Tales
Wild Peacocks Terrorize Timid Residents of Crybaby Town
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
CNN reports from Union Gap, Washington, where the hypersensitive genteel residents of that six-thousand-person town are sweating out a few wild peacocks. I’m not sure what to make of it — when I look at a map, Union Gap, Washington is plainly part of America. And yet, and yet, America’s the place that confronted and…
Animals, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Who’s The Best Drinker?
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Robert Krulwich compares the drinking techniques of cats, dogs, and pigeons. Looking at high-speed videos of dogs and cats, he concludes that cats drink more efficiently than dogs, but that a group of pigeons beats both mammals: Say what you will about sloppy dogs or elegant cats, these three [pigeons of Brisbane, Australia] are the…
Animals
The World’s Happiest Elephant
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Animals, Weather
Ice Cream Eating Woodchuck
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
You may understandably have some disappointment with Punxsutawney Phil’s forecasting ability this year (over 81% of FW poll respondents said he was criminally liable for bad forecasting). Well, groundhogs and woodchucks are the same animal (Marmota monax), and you might want to see how contrite this groundhog/woodchuck is about his erroneous prediction from February. He’s…