The Peace of Wild Things.  Go to see the stunning photograph of a male wood duck (Aix sponsa), but stay to read the brief poem “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry.  Neither will disappoint, and neither will take more than a brief moment of your time.

An Ethical Christian.  It will not take but a few minutes for you to read this, but it will certainly and clearly demonstrate the rarity of this common-sense approach to religion that should ring true for every believer around the globe.  Sadly, it does not.

You have to see this video of an octopus changing colors.  Watch the whole thing as it switches to slow-motion reverse about midway through to give you a better view of the change.  I bet you didn’t even realize it was there until the last minute.  And why can’t our military get camouflage like that?  Very cool.  [via Biomes Blog]

What happens when a massive sinkhole opens right below your house?  It swallows the inside of your house and kills you in the process.  That’s frightening.

Since all unenlightened folks think homosexuality is a decision and/or learned lifestyle as opposed to a birth trait, and they also think gay parents are bad for children, they should really enjoy this story about two gay flamingos who have been in a relationship for five years and who are some of the best adoptive parents in the flock.  Don’t you just hate it when nature smacks your stupidity squarely in the jaw like that?

John Kerry on the whole White House leak situation:

Then drawing a parallel to the Plame case, Kerry said that with McCarthy, “you have somebody being fired from the CIA for allegedly telling the truth, and you have no one fired from the White House for revealing a CIA agent in order to support a lie. That underscores what’s really wrong in Washington, D.C.”