They shoot water out of their mouths to down insects, and then eat them, as this video shows.

its amazing

Click on the void area to watch the video

I’m just reposting the performance cause it was badass.

As a kid I used to read a lot. Well, a lot by children’s standards. I mostly read Fantasy books. Ahh, the good ol’ days of Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms. My favourite book is still The Legend of Huma (a Dragonlance series book) and it probably won’t be dethroned anytime soon.

Over my teenage years I stopped reading completely and up until about a year ago I honestly believed that the casual reading I did as I surfed to the ends of the web and back provided the mental nutrition that my brain desired.

Last fall I had a revelation. It’s nothing incredible, and pretty common sense, but it didn’t quite hit me until then. I realized that people that I see as “smart” aren’t just born that way. They read! Beyond more than a simple correlation, there’s some degree of causation between reading books and being smart. There’s a tendency to want to write those people off as simply being book smart. But with all of that added knowledge, those people can make better decisions, and more clearly define their views.

Over the last year I decided I should start reading books again but it was sort of an on-and-off relationship. I started off by finishing off Chronicles of Narnia before watching the movie, then I finally read The Da Vinci Code, both of which I had bought about a year before I even read them. Da Vinci Code was indeed as good as people had hyped it to be, and subsequently made me not enjoy the movie. I then moved on to some books that my dad had bought me for either Christmas or a birthday, which were iCon (an autobiography of Steve Jobs of Apple fame) and The Power of Focus. iCon was an incredible read and should be read by anyone into either Apple or business.

When I was in Japan back in November I picked up The Tipping Point and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. The former being an interesting talk about fads and popularity while the latter was a nice, feel-good story.

Most recently I just finished reading the David Suzuki autobiography (which my mom had it signed for me…sweet) and I’ve finally started chipping away at all the books I ordered over the Christmas break. I tried to balance it by getting about half fiction and half non-fiction.

Going along with my worldview that life is like a video game (more specifically an RPG), I feel that reading books is like upgrading your skills. It doesn’t help being a high level if your skills suck.

Up next is The Long Tail, a book about niche markets.

This is a great song by Trent Reznor, he performed it at the Katrina Benefit Concert a little while back along with a more popular song which most of you know as “Hurt”, which as we all know was beautifully covered by Johnny Cash a few years ago before his death.

This is an interesting gig, cause he uses a CD player to play the drum track, which is awesome. Apparently when he first started Nine Inch Nails, he used to play shows with a piano and a tape recorder that would play his synthesized drum track, which he recorded earlier, instead of having a band. When he began to get more popular, he created a band to support him on-stage.

If I knew how to play the piano, and create synth drum tracks, this is what I’d do, its just so damn awesome.

Enjoy

The answer is yes, I care…for The O.C.

Ok, its a good show, what can I say, except that the second season was pure crap, on par with Matrix 2…thats how bad it was. The third season was ok, but the fourth season has been almost as good as the first season. Anyways, the Bastards/Fascists at FOX are planning to cancel the O.C. this February, on the 22nd, all because of low ratings.
Now if they canceled it in the second season, I wouldn’t have cared, they screwed the show up so badly that season, it was so successful after the first season that they decided to turn it into a terrible show with terrible writing, rather then a decent show with quality stories. Eventually they realized their mistake, by the end of the third season, and just when they have it right in the fourth season, they decide to cancel it.

It seems to be a trend, that if something is extremely successful, they decide to change the formula of it, and turn it into a cash cow. Its like after a company begins to get successful in North America making a quality product, they want to turn a major profit, so they outsource their jobs to China, where there is cheap labour, and they can mass produce the once quality product into a poor imitation of what it once was, flooding the market with cheap low quality goods, that may look as good as its predecessor, but after buying the product, you realize that its just pure crap, and falls apart before you even use it.
Unfortunately, the creators and writers of The O.C. decided to do just that. They used the success of the first season, and banked on its fanbase to remain loyal, thinking that they could produce an absolutely terrible piece of shit with terrible and most likely very low cost writers for the show, and people will eat it up, because, Hey! Its THE O.C. Everyone Loves it!!!!
After feeding us shit for the second and part of the third season, the geniuses at FOX decided to bring back the quality writers and its creator Josh Schwartz even came back to influence the direction of the show, but alas, it was too late, and the show will go the way of another quality and mismanaged show “Firefly”.

The Entertainment industry needs to realize that if they think their consumers are absolute idiots and morons that don’t understand quality, they should all go do us a favour and quit, or join a multi-national corporation, where people don’t mind being fed shit.
It is really annoying to see what once was a quality product, turn into a terrible steaming pile of shit, all because its producers only care about themselves ($$$), and not its consumers (ME).

SO FUCK FOX AND FUCK ALL THE OTHER STATIONS FOR FEEDING US SHIT, AND THEN PUNISHING US FOR IT.

There is a petition online to save the O.C., but now with the news of the cancellation, I don’t think its good anymore after the announcement.

http://www.fox.com/oc/savetheoc/

Sign it if you like, send it to all your friends, even to those who don’t watch the show, and coerce them into signing it, not for my sake, but for the sake of all of those who feel shafted by these big money stations who like FOX, screw us over on quality programming, and show us terrible shows like “Laguna Beach”, what a terrible fucken show.

Have you ever heard of the Dirty Thirty? It’s a phrase I coined for when someone puts 30 sour candies in their mouth at the same time. It’s really gross!