Squid report

3 Comments POSTED ON Feb 10 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Everyone once in a while we are wont to check in at the Gama-Go store to see what cool new designs we’ll be longing for, and being the squid-lovers that we are, this cephalopod assault on one of freedom’s greatest symbols just shot to the top of the shopping list. [...]

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“The Dog, the Cat and the Giant Squid”

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 06 2008 AT 8:06 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We think you will want to read this Kare Kare comic by Andrew Drilon at The Chemistry Set. Let’s just say it updates the “Incredible Journey” story for cryptozoologists.

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Team Hollywood finds Team Comics

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 03 2008 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetOnce in a while we get one of those wonky press releases about people announcing their very important comic book which they hope to turn into a very important movie, but this one is really pretty funny. Basically it’s a PR Wire story about a marketing company called “Team Hollywood” getting [...]

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America's Dog

10 Comments POSTED ON Feb 13 2008 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Uno is the first beagle ever to win the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Snoopy and Underdog are cheering. “He’s a people’s dog, a merry little hound,” Wilkerson said. Photo © New York Times

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Just for Warren Ellis

0 Comments POSTED ON Feb 10 2008 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet “Sleepy kitty, making biscuits.” Thanks, Zena.

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Monkeys still moving things with brains

0 Comments POSTED ON Jan 18 2008 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe story of researcher’s attempts to get monkeys to move robotic arms was one of the very first things we ever blogged here on the Beat V 1.1, in a post now long lost, and they are still at it! Last a week a monkey in South Carolina made a robot [...]

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Lonely, bored octopus turns to Mr. Potato Head for companionship

0 Comments POSTED ON Jan 14 2008 AT 4:24 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet An octopus in a Cornish aquarium has become very attached to his toy Mr. Potato Head. Louis, a 6-foot long Giant Pacific Octopus, loves playing with the plastic spud, and can even find treats such as crab meat that his keepers hide within Mr. Potato Head’s secret compartments.

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Army of Machine/Chihuahua hybrids roam earth

0 Comments POSTED ON Jan 12 2008 AT 12:27 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Fear them!

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Getting back to speed

0 Comments POSTED ON Dec 26 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetLet’s face it, no one wants to work this week, and that even includes us. So we’re still loafing as we gradually get back up to speed. In the meantime, check out this exclusive footage we found of Chip and Dale* planning how to take out someone named Donald. Fascinating. * Yes, [...]

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Things to enjoy

2 Comments POSTED ON Dec 23 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Watch the third one for a special treat for our kind.

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Giant rat and new possum found in Indonesia!

0 Comments POSTED ON Dec 18 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetHow would you like to wake up and find one of these beasties going through your marshmallows? : The giant rat is about five times the size of a typical city rat, says Kristofer Helgen, a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, US. “With no fear of humans, it apparently came [...]

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Go out, Jerboa!

0 Comments POSTED ON Dec 12 2007 AT 8:03 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s the real-life inspiration for Pikachu and almost as cute! The very rare and mysterious long-eared jerboa of the Gobi desert has been caught on film for the first time!: The long-eared jerboa, a tiny nocturnal mammal that is dwarfed by its enormous ears, can be found in deserts in Mongolia and [...]

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Dinosaur Mummy!!!

2 Comments POSTED ON Dec 04 2007 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Discovered by teenage paleontologist!

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Mozart…

0 Comments POSTED ON Oct 29 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Nature is cruel.

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Friday Cat Blogging

4 Comments POSTED ON Oct 26 2007 AT 3:00 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Al Columbia’s cover for MOME 10. [Via Flog]

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