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The most beautiful female goat in the world: “

Photo: Ali Jarekji / Reuters

Wasieef, a Maaz Al Shami (Damascene goat), won the first prize for the ‘Most Beautiful Goat’ title in the female category at a recent event in Amman, Jordan. The Mazayen al-Maaz competition was the first such event held in the desert kingdom. If you would like to see Wasieef looking right at you, a portrait is after the jump.

Photo: Ali Jarekji / Reuters

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[Damn, though, that’s an awful lot of paint, 99% of which is invisible in the finished piece. -e]

Virtual pets starve after bungled resolution to Second Life’s “unauthorized food” war: “Wagner James Au sez, ‘Meeroos, an extremely popular species of virtual, breedable animal in Second Life, are now starving, because griefers have been selling their owners unauthorized food, and Linden Lab accidentally shut them down *and* their legitimate food supplier. The creatures don’t starve to death if their owners fail to feed them — after awhile, they’re just programmed to abandon their owners, presumably to find food. Linden Lab is finally addressing the issue, but Meeroos’ creators say the world is still ‘flooded with unauthorized food.”

Meeroos, SL’s extremely popular species of virtual, breedable animals created by Malevay Studios, are currently starving. Yesterday, reports Malevay’s Catherine Farspire, unidentified griefers using variations of the avatar name ‘Meeroos Resident’ (the company’s official account) were found selling unauthorized Meeroos food in the region of Twas. (The miscreants, says Ms. Farspire, ‘built their own [store] in the sky selling fraudulent food’.) As a result, she reports, Linden Lab has closed down the region of Twas — and also blocked ‘Meeroos Resident’, the legitimate Malevay Studios account: ‘We believe the account was blocked by Linden Lab by mistake, given all the reported accounts were variations of the same name, or the account was mistakenly reported by residents meaning to abuse report the offending avatars. We simply cannot be sure. Unfortunately, this has dealt us a crippling blow at the worst time possible.’

Meeroos Starving Due to SL Griefers Selling Fraudulent Food & Linden Lab Closing Their Legitimate Food Source (UPDATE: Meeroos Account Reopened, But SL Still “Flooded With Unauthorized Food”)
(Thanks, James!)

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Collecting “PostNatural” life: “
The Center for PostNatural History was created ‘to acquire, interpret and provide access to a collection of living, preserved and documented organisms of postnatural origin.’ Center for PostNatural History (via IFTF Future of Science, thanks Ariel Waldman!)

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[New work from Audrey Kawasaki. -e]

..”Restlessly Still”..: “

full and close up images of pieces from the show ‘Restlessly Still’ @ Merry Karnowski Gallery.
show runs from July 30 – August 27, 2011
see previous post for more details.

‘Enrapture’ 24’x12′ oil and graphite on wood panel

‘Deeper’ 24’x18′ oil and graphite on wood panel

‘Charlotte’ 24’x24′ oil and graphite on wood panel

‘Lili and her Ghosts’ 24’x24′ oil and graphite on wood panel

‘Where I Rest’ 24’x36′ oil and graphite on wood panel

‘She Wind’ 16’x16′ oil and graphite on wood panel

‘Prince of Horns’ 12’x12′ oil and graphite on wood panel

‘Margery’ 6’x7′ ink and graphite on hand cut paper

‘Lillian’ 6’x7′ ink and graphite on hand cut paper

‘Alyssa’ 6’x7′ ink and graphite on hand cut paper

‘Shaela’ 6’x7′ ink and graphite on hand cut paper

~ opening night ~

more opening night photos should be up on Merry Karnowski site soon.

~ in progress ~

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[LOVE. -egg]

[And speaking of Tortoise…]

Ladies! Cannonball cure for constipation: “

In 1901, this Ladies Guide in Health and Disease ad advised women that they should let an “eminent German physician” cure their constipation by rolling a leather-encased cannonball around on their tummies.

Well then, that’s good to know.

Haters Gonna Hate: microscopic edition: “

Funniest captioning of a motor-protein ever. (after the jump, so I don’t get lynched for a 2.5MB image on the front page)

Haters gonna hate. [crosspost from r/gifs]

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