This is something called a “flamingo tongue.”  Click the picture for a life-sized image.  It’s a kind of sea slug, maybe three inches long, and crawls about on corals eating, I suspect, everything. I think it looks more like an uncircumcised penis, possibly with a horrific disease, but then I don’t know what an actual […]

Barnes & Noble has decided to split off its Nook division, which includes its profitable B&N College bookstores in universities around the country. Apparently the Nook is losing market share to Kindle and iPad.  (My own ebook sales through the Nook store are roughly 10% of my total, FWIW.)  The division is also losing money, […]

  You thought from the title that this was going to be about the TV show, didn’t you? Nope, I’m here to introduce you to an invertebrate.  This is an arrow crab (Stenorhynchus seticornis).  You can see the pale stripe across the carapace that gives it its name. It’s maybe six inches across if you […]

Those of you who intend to go to the London worldcon, or anyone else planning to visit Britain, might pay particular attention here. It has always struck me as unfair that the inhabitants of the United Kingdom spend their entire lives learning to speak charming and distinct dialects, only to have ignorant North Americans lump […]