Various Distractions

With work inconveniently being, well, a lot of work, I haven't been blogging. But a meeting this afternoon got cancelled. So here are a bunch of distractions that I've been slowly accumulating for the last few weeks but haven't had the chance to blog.

The world's largest earwig bug has been found in Germany via maps.google.com (hat tip to Boing Boing):


From a technical point of view, I have no idea how this image could have gotten there. I assume a very tiny bug got caught in a satellite camera and died. Or the eugenics crazy Germans are experimenting on creating the uber-man again, and they decided to go with an insect this time.

This is the best political ad that I've ever seen, attacking Representative Brad Miller (NC-13):

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics I actually read on a regular basis, comes a list of the Top 10 Occupations with the Largest Projected Job Growth, 2004-14. Wondering what they might be and if your job is on the list? Well here's a hint: 7 out of 10 suck. Which falls generally within my current economic projection that 70% of Americans have lousy jobs.

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Columbia, Maryland local Aaron McGruder has decided that the Boondocks comic strip will most likely not return to the funny pages. He wants to devote more time to the Boondocks show on Cartoon Network instead. For those of us who don't stay up until 2am on weekdays to watch cartoons, this is very bad news.



Here are some pictures of the house I want to buy in Tampa Bay:




That is all for now.