Tag: fun
Show Us Your SQUEE! Contest
Today I got an email from a marketing company that was promoting a campaign I was not at all pleased about. From the email: “NPMA Launches “Show Us Your Scream” Contest“ “The National Pest Management […]
Mark your calendars: National Moth Week!
National Moth Week is a new project celebrating moths and biodiversity in the US. July 23-29, 2012 Why moths? Moths can be found everywhere from inner cities to heavily forested remote areas. You might dismiss […]
Happy St. Urho’s Day!
Mid March! A time when the US turns its attention to an important event–a type of March Madness, if you will. People stock up on food, buy special t-shirts, and drink alcoholic libations in mass […]
Productivity, prepare to meet your doom
Because I just spent HOURS playing with this online superhero generator, and I predict you will too. It took a little work to get her to the appropriate level of….zaftigness. Mr. Bug Girl says it […]
Amusing Music Thursday
Wow. I soooooo wish I had the chutzpah to do this. I present: Leslie Hall, from Ames, Iowa. There is, alas, no video for the song “Midwest Diva,” which you can hear on her MySpace […]
Food of the Gods
In the pantheon of Very Bad Giant Insect Horror Films, Food of the Gods has always been a standout. A director Bert I. Gordon (BIG) classic, this adaptation of an H.G Wells story is amazing […]
hexapod haiku contest!
NCSU’s Insect Museum Blog is having a Hexapod Haiku Contest! Your haiku should be submitted by 11:59pm, 20 March 2008 (the first day of spring!). This one I particularly liked, as we are inundated with […]
Minuscule: Ants at work
A heist, a bocce ball, and ….well, I won’t give the rest away. Enjoy!