Recent content by Johnald Chaffinch

when i first got my cats i just kept seeing similarities in their behaviour to mantids. they follow movement in exactly the same way too

the abdomen and wings look a lot like Phyllocrania paradoxa (ghost mantids), are they closely related? (perhaps it's just convergent evolution, it's as close as mantids have gotten to mimicking dead leaves?..)

i've just added more pics to the first post. some may be leafhoppers, cicadas or plant-hoppers, i dont know (coincidentally, i was sat in the pub the other day and a leafhopper landed on my hand. it was in the middle of a city centre in the UK !?! )

Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot http://www.conceptlab.com/roachbot/ Playing Pac-Man against Real Crickets : Wim van Eck built this pacman game, where a human player can play against real crickets, for his graduation project. 'In his project he build a Pacman game, in that the player...

...i was just reasoning to myself, yeah it could just be made up. other sources: washington post - http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/ news.com.au - http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22327263-13762,00.html seems the story is nowhere to be found written in german, but then i read it's...

you probably wouldnt have seen it on the new because it was in Germany. 150000 people die every day, just because it's a bizarre way to go doesnt mean it'd necessarily get worldwide coverage... it's unlikely a snake or spider tore some flesh off though, but there were supposedly lots of animals...

'Mark Voegel, 30, was found dead in his Dortmund, Germany apartment. His body was draped in spider webs and more than 200 spiders, several snakes, thousands of termites, and a gecko were feasting on his corpse. A police spokesman said: “It was like a horror movie. His corpse was over the...

just from random blogs. check out http://www.neatorama.com/ and http://www.videosift.com/ , they keep me entertained

more craziness... When not to hyphenate your name:

this idea of a loving god is very seductive, it can make people happy if they really start to believe in it. it makes me sad to read people saying things about how a god will let them into heaven, when they've died. i wonder if that's 100% faith that it will really happen, or just a strong...

i need to word myself better...

how life will have begun : from a primitive form of natural selection - the survival of the fittest chain of molecules to the environment. if you're asking how did all of this universe come to be - the ONLY explanation is that the whole multi-verse is infinite and chaotic, the opposite of...

following up the spiders on drugs links... check this streaming video clip out - http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=203066 probably nsfw :lol: