Best Whale Ever | July 22nd, 2010
You mess with the whale, you get 40 tons of that whale all up in your grille.
For real, this is the most whaletastic boat-ownage since the wreck of the Essex.
(Image from South African EPA via NPR.)
Blog category: Oceans
Whale Show I Will Sadly Miss | March 4th, 2009
I hope all of you can watch this blue whale show for me, as I’ll be on the road:
Kingdom of the Blue Whale | National Geographic
I like the site, and particularly can’t get over the hypnotizing tail animation on the homepage.
Whales: as always, mad cool.
Of Bacon, and the Ocean Equivalent of Bacon | October 7th, 2008
My friend Bill sent me a link to BaconToday.com, which I now know as the Internet’s finest source of bacon information. (Seriously, that is a professional-looking site, particularly for one devoted solely to bacon. Nice job by 500 Yards Media, whoever they are.) The specific link he sent was this page on bacon cinnamon rolls, which is perhaps the greatest food idea I’ve come across in the past ten years. I remain forever grateful to Bacon Today.
Also, now that I’m living on my own in Ann Arbor, I can once again eat kipper snacks. These are some of the foulest-smelling foods ever put in a can, and as such The Wife is quite vocal in her desire that I not eat them in the house. But man, are they good. Once you fork off the slimy herring skin, the smoke flavor really does render them the bacon of the sea.
Weird Northern European foods: a staple of goodness.
Squid Blog | April 30th, 2008
The colossal squid in New Zealand is being defrosted and studied right now, and the lab set up a blog:
While this squid is most fascinating, I can’t help but agree with this BBC dude that the catching of really weird deep-sea animals is a bad sign: it means fisherman are going further and further into the ocean to satisfy our ravenous fish-eating appetites. And I know I will be pissed if tuna steaks cease to exist.
Whales | November 20th, 2007
Two stories:
1. A whale swam so far up the Amazon River that he gets to take a boat back to the ocean.
2. Another whale got trapped in fishing lines, but freed itself and bailed. I got caught in that stuff scuba diving one time and it took me a long time to get out, even with my human brain.
If whales are riding in boats and solving complex logic problems, we can’t be far off from talking whales who establish their own civilization. Who knows what they’ll say and do? Not me, but it promises to exceed everything, ever, in awesomeness.
Tuna – Too Good | November 11th, 2007
The Washington Post ran this thought-provoking article about the dearth of bluefin tuna in the sea. I’m not cool with that, because tuna is awesome.
As much as I love tuna sushi, I’ll think twice about ordering it now. I like my oceans healthy and full of awesome fish, so the whales have somebody to eat and intimidate.