Serious monsters

We love the serious study of the bizarre as much as anyone (OK, we love it more than most people) but we don't deny there's room for a little comic relief in the pursuit of secretive animal species. Enter In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Big Foot. This tell-all tome offers up the dishiest dirt on the often elusive, always misunderstood forest dweller. Sure, Bigfoot can't always control his love of eating people, but he has feelings like anyone else, and he's not afraid to share them.

Read more and buy the book at Dragon's Library

Fertile ground

This one strains credulity in a way that goes above and beyond our normal cryptozoology posts. Let's call it cryptobotany. Doctors in Russia claim to have removed a two-inch fir tree from a man's lungs. The video shows a two-inch fir tree nestled inside a surgical incision.

Mostly likely it's hoaxier than that last Loch Ness Monster sighting, but who knows? Maybe his lungs were moist and fertile. Maybe enough light penetrated his chest to nurture a baby evergreen.

Maybe the hospital was short on funds and really, really needed some free viral publicity.

Someone turned my dream from last night into a short film

The coming robot revolution

Skynet hasn't yet achieved awareness, but CB2 is learning to recognize facial expressions. Invented by a team of scientists at Osaka University, this charming baby robot is equipped with moving eyes and tactile sensors, which allow it to interact with its "mommy."

Short article about CB2 on NationalGeographic.com.

Where The Hackers Get Together

PRI's The Takeaway did a nice short video spot on the mixed media hacker collective phenomenon, specifically about NYC Resistor:
"Hacker spaces" are giving geek tinkerers a place to gather, create and collaborate



(My brother is the guy with the bags full of hacked iPods)

People with too much faith in the political process

Or possibly, just realists.

Chinese Vampire Deer Attacks on the Rise!

So they claim that this is no April Fools joke...

Pet owners in Bedfordshire, UK have been reporting increasing numbers of attacks by a population of Chinese Water Deer whose ancestors escaped from a local safari park in 1920's & 30's. The tiny little deer (2 ft tall, and no more and 31 lbs) come equipped with nasty 3.5 inch boar-like tusks which they have been using to ravage unsuspecting dogs who think they are just chasing away Bambi and then suddenly realize they are actually be chased themselves by Bambi's bloodsucking uncle, Count Bambula. Don't f@#k with Bambi!

Read the full article from the UK's Mail Online.