They should turn it into an Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea theme park!

In Google Earth: 24 20.715 N 54 19.551 E

Here it is in Google Earth: 40 42.256 N 74 0.492 W

Said the snail to the bird: "You wouldn't s*** me now, would you?"

I don't like to stereotype, but not only do sea anemones have personalities, they're all jerks!

Oh man, when you have an arrest report for a ventriloquist dummy with the remark "Has a wonderful way with the ladies", that's not good. Shades of that Anthony Hopkins movie MAGIC.

Bill:

Read the full description on the YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW5yWUKDMpg

"Lots of people have been asking how I did this, and lots of people think I used a green (or other colour) screen. Well, I didn't use chroma keying at all with any colour, I rotoscoped myself and the Saab then placed the train video in behind. Yes, I have the patience to do that. It took seven hours and it was all done in one sitting when I should have been in bed. Thank you."

"It's perfectly safe, lady! Look, strong bridge! Strong bridge! Str-"
*crack*

-Short Round

Better than the chimps and the frogs at the Honolulu zoo.

Seriously, if you search YouTube on
chimp frog

You'll see what I mean, at least 3 videos.

Warning: Not Safe For Work, or indeed, Not Safe For Life. What is seen cannot be unseen.

There's also the oddity that always happens in "discoveries" of this sort ---- the seeming absolute conviction that NASA doesn't look at their own stuff before handing it over to Google Earth.

When I paste those coordinates into Google Mars, I don't get anywhere.

But these do:
71 49'19.73"N 29 33'06.53"W

I also went as Ash to that same Dragon Con last year. Non-steampunk, but I did have a homemade Necronomicon.

http://planettom.livejournal.com/292023.html

Also note the Female Ash costume in that link. And there was a great Kid Ash the year before.

FAR SIDE:

"I gotta be me, oh I just gotta be me..."

http://penguingeek.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/i-gotta-be-me/

Which reminds me of that Pinky and the Brain cartoon where they into that very same small shaft that the robot is exploring.

Also, the guy always announcing to the press that the pyramids weren't built by slaves?

Currently facing a jail sentence:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-18/egypt-s-archaeology-chief-zahi-hawass-to-appeal-jail-term-1-.html