Happy 200th Birthday, Abe and Chuck!

You can read all about Charles Darwin anywhere (now that we have an intelligent Prez, maybe evolution won't devolve) so instead, here are the Darwin Awards and the eponymous movie.















To help ward off any Award winners in Japan, I present for you some of the Earthquake warnings on an EMIS (Emergency Information System for Foreigners in Miyagi) pamphlet that I picked up the other day at Immigration.















These two little pictures are my favourites!

I don't have much to say about Abe though he had a cool beard and was the first Prez to be assassinated.

Here Lincoln and Booth show up on SNL portrayed by Joe Flaherty and Dave Foley.



Honest Abe delivers a message to Kirk and Spock.

Survival of the Fattest.

Happy Darwin Day everyone! (Here's the site in Japanese for interested parties. If you have a better command of Japanese than I, you may want to clean up the babel-fish's translation.)

In honour of Sir Charles, I offer up this candidate as a contender for beating the evolutionary odds. A giant lobster named Goliath was saved from the crockpot by a Superbowl lottery winner. She then wanted to return him to the wild (open seas) but found that a more difficult task than she'd thought. After some calls, she discovered that the Montreal Biodome is looking for just such a crustacean. And he'll presumably live happily ever after...

It's nice to report some good news for a change!

Let's go back to my University days and listen to...