These folks can help you out:
We are an online community of naturalists who enjoy learning about and sharing our observations of insects, spiders, and other related creatures.
We enjoy the opportunity to instill in others the fascination and appreciation that we share for the intricate lives of these oft-maligned creatures.
And, they have great pictures, e.g.,:
Giant Redheaded Centipede – Scolopendra heros (Click on Image for full size: 115K)
Via i-pets.com
…with some odd side effects and interesting lessons.
The good citizens of New Jersey will probably not thrive without their government as they’ve been trained to believe it is necessary instead of educated to live as free human beings.
As to the some of the side effects and lessons:
Yep, ol’ corzine would probably more than cover the $4.5 billion shortfall by simply closing down all the non-essential functions.
Via Blonde Sense.
Some wierd, some offensive, some disturbing, some NWS, and some, well, decide for yourself. There are more linked in the comments.
Via Metafilter.
There’s lot’s of bio-partying happening today: the 10th Circus of the Spineless at Science and Sensibility and the Carnival of the Dogs at Mickey’s Musings join the Friday Ark in end of June celebrations.
We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?
We will add your post to the list if you do one of the following:
Of course, if our staff goes on strike then we will link only those posts someone tells us about. Time permitting we will continue boardings until the Carnival of the Cats goes up on Sunday.
Do link to the Friday Ark whether you use trackbacks or not.
Visit each border and come back regularly Friday-Sunday to visit new boarders.
Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map. (62 shouts as of 06/29)
Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings.
Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 118th edition, 6/25 is up at Life~Florida~Whatever. The 118th edition will be hosted by Watermark on 6/25. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff’s Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants. Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.
Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 26th edition is up and hosted by The Hawk Owls’ Nest. The 27th edition will be hosted on 7/6 by 10,000 Birds.
For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The ninth edition is up at Burning Silo. The 10th edition will be hosted today by Science and Sensibility.
Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.
Cats
Note for Haloscan Users: Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted “too rapidly” by the same host. I don’t know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I’m sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh….