Did you know that 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity?


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Random fact o' the day: there are 22,900 Google results for lolhamster and only 4,090 results for lolgerbil. Those attention-hogging hammies steal all the fun!

One of the few actual gerbil ones actually has a cat in as well:


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Poor crazy Batman. Spoilers for a brilliantly twisted cutscene from Arkham Asylum - Scarecrow's fear toxin creates an alternate scene by scene rehash of the opening of the game, only Bats is the one being dragged back to the asylum. I loved this when I was playing it and someone's very kindly put it on youtube.

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Earlier this week two charming individuals stole several bikes from our secure car park at work, including mine. Since I cycle five miles to and from work each day, I find having a bike makes this cycling process a lot easier. So I went and bought a pretty basic second hand bike from this lovely chap who used to service my old bike: Jake's Bikes. ( Read more... )

I've just moved from a shared house to renting my own little garden flat, still in Bristol, and am now surrounded by boxes and clutter. Not much change there! All went fairly smoothly apart from having a single bedframe delivered by the geniuses at Tesco, which didn't really work with the double mattress they brought at the same time ( Read more... )

Courtesy of lizbuf

RULES:
01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal. [pffft - I say rules are made to be broken; don't feel you have to]
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!


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Hee. I do greatly love xkcd. And velociraptors.


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“Comment to this post saying that you want to play [do not feel at all compelled to join in, I'm just reposting to explain this entry] and I'll give you 5 subjects/things I associate with you. Then post in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.”

lizbuf gave me the following:

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Well it was a nice day, so I felt like going for a bit of a walk and thought I might take my camera along to do some random snapping. I finally paid my dues to flickr so my pro account has been reborn, and if anyone cares to look at my decidedly non-pro results you can see them here: clicky.

( My fave pics are below the cut here. )