Touching the Owl

This owl looks adorable when you pet it, but it's really thinking that you look like a giant mouse.

The Carter-Radcliffe Cuteness

Links for Later

1. Richard Freeman on unions & labor economics (via marginal revolution)
2. Cute video of the day: A Slow Loris with a Tiny Umbrella
3. Walter Kirn: "The Uses of Charlie Sheen: A Wittgensteinian Investigation" (via John Crowley)
4. Philosophical cage match (Ayn Rand vs. Carl Jung)
5. VS Ramachandran interview
6. Meet the Baers: CIA Agents in Love
7. How Thomas Jefferson Prepared for Meetings (Clue: Plan beats no plan. Big plan beats good plan.) (via Ben Casnocha)
8. Also good, from the same blog: St. Augustine, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and evolution
9. 37Signals' Jason Fried on 6 ways to practice making money (via kottke)

Cuddle Time

25% of adult men say they carry teddy bears with them when they travel. The other 75% lie when asked.

(via Matt)

Hot Koalas

Sent to me by a reader: "At 120 degrees in Australia, it was so hot... that koalas were asking people for water. It's never been seen before." From last summer (January 2009)