I would like to see a person sitting in these chairs — holding a Rainbow Hector, of course.
From a Flickr search for “hexagonal molecular chair”.
Furry Toys Tours is a new service that offers people the chance to send their cuddly toys to Paris and have photographic evidence sent back to show for it. –Wired
The octopus is amazing.
“The discovery of this octopus tiptoeing across the sea floor with its prized coconut shells suggests that even marine invertebrates engage in behaviors that we once thought the preserve of humans.” -via WIred
Rainbow Hector would be interested in these heroic efforts to save the Pacific Northwest Tree Ocotopus:
The history of the tree octopus trade is a sad one. Their voracious appetite for bird plumes having exhausted all the worthy species of that family, the fashionistas moved on to cephalopodic accoutrements during the early 20th Century. Tree octopuses became prized by the fashion industry as ornamental decorations for hats, leading greedy trappers to wipe out whole populations to feed the vanity of the fashionable rich. While fortunately this practice has been outlawed, its effects still reverberate today as these millinery deprivations brought tree octopus numbers below the critical point where even minor environmental change could cause disaster.
Beautiful art installation.
It may be an infuriating puzzle which has baffled and defeated countless children and their parents over more than two decades, but this octopus appears determined to solve the Rubik’s Cube. (UK Telegraph… thanks for the link, Rosemary, who doubtless knows that I prefer the plural form “octopodes.”)
AFP:
A hectopus should be enjoyed on top of furniture such as this.
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I don’t know what it means… I found it via Google.
plink it Hector was my spanish hectopus since I was a baby. My Daddy used to make jingling sounds and gave him an accent.
