The Quiet Bower

mad-variables:

The new species for 2012 

The Spongebob Squarepants Mushroom (Spongiforma squarepantsii) named after the cartoon character, was found growing on the ground in Lambir Hills National Park (Sarawak State, Malaysia), northern Borneo

The Bonaire banded box jelly is a colourful and venomous jellyfish found near the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire. Its scientific name, Tamoya ohboya, was chosen because of an assumption that anyone stung by the creature is likely to exclaim oh boy!

The sneezing monkey, Rhinopithecus strykeri, was found by scientists conducting a gibbon survey in the high mountains of Burma. The critically endangered snub-nosed monkey has a distinctive white beard and sneezes when it rains


Sazima’s tarantula is a striking, iridescent blue hairy spider from South America. Pterinopeima sazimai inhabits tabletop mountains in a remote part of eastern Brazil.

@MahlerMad will like this :)

FUCK YES! Brilliant :D

archer-and-anders:

Just saw this in an email from one of my professors who is an adviser for the Lesbian and Gay Vet Med Association at school. Target’s website says it will donate 100% of T-shirt sales from customers during the month of June to Family Equality Council.

See the t-shirts

areyoutryingtodeduceme:

I can’t take credit for either of these games since my friends invented them, and I’m a social recluse so I don’t often get together with them and participate in these games, but they are hilarious and I want to talk about them so THERE:

  • First game is Slow Ninja: Basically you randomly break…
superpretty:

untitled by jimtoide on Flickr.

superpretty:

untitled by jimtoide on Flickr.

bookporn:

Celebrating Towel Day by kaworu42

#towelday

bookporn:

Celebrating Towel Day by kaworu42

#towelday