"Eunuch Spiders Fight Off Competition"

ABC:

Male spiders castrate themselves so their manhood doesn't weigh them down when they're fighting off competitors, say researchers.

Now you know.

More at Live Science:

CREDIT: Qi Qi Lee 

Caption: "Nephilengys malabarensis male and female showing extreme sexual dimorphism where the much smaller male is resting on the female’s abdomen after escaping from female cannibalism via emasculation during copulation. The self-emasculated male palp (red arrow) is lodged in the female’s epigynum."

Aussie Coroner: The Dingo Did It [updtd]

Wow.

Full story should be here very soon.

Update: Here it is:

Dingo caused baby Azaria Chamberlain's death - coroner 

An Australian coroner has made a final ruling that a dingo dog took baby Azaria Chamberlain from a campsite in 1980 and caused her death. 

The decision was made after Azaria's parents presented new evidence to try to clear their names. 

After the eight week-old baby went missing, they were charged with her disappearance, and mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton with her murder.

She was released when evidence matched the dingo story but doubts lingered.

Extra: Bad dingo.

Photo from here.

We had just one cat all the years of my childhood

Or at least that’s what I thought. My parents told me cats could change shape and color at will.

Jeff Stanley Kicks Ass on "Tidings Cafe"

Gah gah gah, I miss my friend Jeff. This is just such a beautiful - and beautifully honest - song. When he hits that high note - damn.

Destroyer: "Kaputt"

I had never heard of Destroyer before today. Wow.

MickO'Pedia

So wrong it's right:

Lastovo, like the oul' rest of Roman province of Dalmatia, was settled by Illyrians. The Romans conquered and settled the bleedin' entire area, retainin' control until the bleedin' Avar invasions and Slavic migrations in the 7th century, be the hokey!

Main page. (The reason I linked to MickO'Pedias Lastovo entry: I'm researching an article about chimney's, for which Lastovo is apparently famous, and found this page...)

The Mitt Romney Toaster [updtd]

U.S. national politics is so deeply messed up these days that it probably doesn't matter—but this video should be the end of the Mitt Romney campaign. In a sane world he'd be toast now. We wouldn't even have to wait until November—he'd just get out today.

 

Just devastating.

Update: Weird frigging typos fixed.