Animadversions.

That’s how many new blogs are created every day - according to the BBC. (Via Lum)
On the one hand, it’s nice to see people taking an interest in… uh… well, whatever the hell blogging’s purpose is. Glorified navel-gazing, I suppose. But the signal-to-noise ratio is starting to get pretty dodgy.
It’d be [...]

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A short list of creatures that scare the shit out of me:

Stromatopods
[Stromatopods] strike by rapidly unfolding and swinging their raptorial claws at the prey, and are capable of inflicting serious damage on victims significantly greater in size than themselves. These two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, rapidly reaching 10 m/s from a standing start, [...]

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