When we talk about “stuff we like”, it’s as if the Crikey Team moves borg-like, with a universal opinion about what is amusing and what is cool.
Not so. Today, First Dog on the Moon has marked a dog with a fig on his nose as “stuff we like”. But it is more “stuff he likes”.
Then again, he also pointed to a story in Wired about the Georgia Guidestones, the strangest monument in America. No-one knows quite how they got there, but everyone’s intrigued by the message they seem to convey: an eight-language instruction manual in enormous granite slabs about how to rebuild after an apocalypse.
Randall Sullivan writes:
Whoever the anonymous architects of the Guidestones were, they knew what they were doing: The monument is a highly engineered structure that flawlessly tracks the sun. It also manages to engender endless fascination, thanks to a carefully orchestrated aura of mystery. And the stones have attracted plenty of devotees to defend against folks who would like them destroyed. Clearly, whoever had the monument placed here understood one thing very well: People prize what they don’t understand at least as much as what they do.
Eleri has marked to our attention a story about bionic penguins that can fly through the air. But it was this story find with the lot (pet psychics and Chihuahuas) that had us blown away:
Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight. Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly a mile from where 8-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen.
Ms Black, in editor mode, has selected the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks as her pick of the blogs. Though for sheer mind-bending one-themed blogs, scanwiches is still a solid favourite.
Editor Jonathan Green, meanwhile, likes Paul Gilding’s argument in the Cockatoo Chronicles that the GFC is the wake up call we need. As Gilding points out: “Without the global financial crisis we may never have got Barack Obama.”
And there’s one “stuff we like” that we agree on: the Pres.
