Link roundup

1. Flickr posted a collection of fennec fox photos.

2. What impact did the tsunami have on Apple's ability to keep producing iPhones etc? They claim it had "no supply or cost impact."

3. Portal turret Easter egg. Also, an explanation for who the bald guy is on Valve's splash screen.

Image roundup

A few gems from Reddit:


Motivational dog.




Dog and raccoon.




Intriguing museum sign.




Instructional sign at Costco.




Baby hedgehogs.

*Buy motivational posters at Amazon.

Image roundup

A few gems from Reddit:


Big dog, little dog.



If you ask Domino's to draw a dragon on your box.



Polar bear cub attacks.



House with built-in waterslide.



Apparently the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.



The beer store at the end of the rainbow.



Not a caterpillar.

More (cheap) hearts to go around!

I know that you all have been seeing pink and red everywhere now, but I have more to share. I want to share some cute cheapies with you that end/disappear tomorrow (so tomorrow should be the last day to get it).

Existence sim is having a event where Piddle, SMP, Miseria, Kozmetika, and BOOM have sale prices on most items marked with a pink or red balloon, and/or just pink or red (it varies on the store). Anyway, there is also carts of items on sale of pre-releases or exclusives for those stores. I'm wearing BOOM set that is only 50L! (also comes with strings not worn and another bra + another pair of shorts, a dress)

See that little kiss on my boob and my cute nails with a heart on it? They are from RezIpsa Loc The nails come in a pack of several different kinds for 50L (for all 10). As for the kisses, there's 10 in total (red and pink, and various spots) as well, and you can play a gatcha for 5L per play, or buy the fatpack for 50L.

Finally, I know you are wanting to know where my cute shoes are from! They are a prelease from Willow that is only 60L for today and tomorrow in this color only! I write way too much, sorry.

Others:
Hair: Exile
Skin: *CandyDoll*
Eyes: .Insufferable Dastard.
Poses: (with love and squalor)

Baby anteater

The San Francisco Zoo has a baby giant anteater.

*Buy plush anteaters at eBay.

Video of a Fennec Fox eating carrots

Video of a Fennec Fox eating (and playing) with carrots. Via The Daily What, which just launched a spin-off blog.

*Previously: Mozilla's Fennec logo.

*Buy plush fennec foxes at Amazon.

Cute, slightly menacing puppy

Puppy with coal black eyes via.

Link roundup

1. Video of a cat cuddling with a teddy bear.

2. "Satellite images indicate North Korea might have suffered considerable casualties when South Korea returned fire after the North shelled its frontline island last week, a lawmaker said Thursday." Via.

3. "Todd McFarlane worked Felix the Cat into issues of his comics as a treat for a friend of his." The reason why is pretty interesting.

Link roundup

1. Rose George spent five weeks on a container ship and wrote a great article about it. For example:

After Suez, we enter pirate waters. Channel 16 is suddenly listened to much more carefully. Channel 16 is the official emergency and notification channel with strict codes regulating its use. You use Channel 16 to call someone, then you both agree on another channel for further conversation. In practice, that often fails, particularly in calm waters where there isn't much to do, and where pirate-provoked tension needs release.

The Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean, these are the seas of name-calling. Here, it is common to hear Indian voices yelling out, "Filipino monkey!" The captain finds this unpleasantly racist, but the Filipino voices generally retaliate. "Indian, I can't see you, but I can smell you!" There is no way to tell who is calling, so bored watch officers clog the airwaves for fun. When piracy started up again around 2004, there was a period when pirates would play music over Channel 16 just before they attacked, both to unsettle seafarers and to stop ships communicating with the shore.

The second mate has spent many a night listening to weirdness. Around these parts, he tells me, you also hear ghostly voices shouting, "Mario! Mario! Mario!" It's not just him: Friends of his on other ships have made posters about the ghostly Mario-shouter, but no one knows who it is. I don't think they want to know. Strange things happen at sea, and so they should.

2. Firefox set up a live webcam where you watch the Firefox mascot (a red panda). I highly recommend the highlight reel and meet the cubs videos for cute overload.

3. There's a house in Southern California that's full of explosives. It's so dangerous, the authorities are going to build a wall around the house, evacuate the neighbors, spray the area with flame retardant, close the nearby freeway, and burn the house to the ground.

*Buy plush red pandas at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Photo of a rolled up hedgehog.

2. Celebrities including Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, and Usher have vowed to not use Twitter and Facebook again until Alicia Keys's charity has raised one million dollars.

3. This woman is totally lord of the jungle.

*Buy baby animal calendars at Amazon.