I don’t normally do cat blogging, but then, I don’t normally do cat portraits, either.

I’m making an exception tonight. This is for Jay and “Flame”. They’re going through a tough time.

Head for the hills!

h/t Larry T.

Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.

Gary Clement’s Year in Review.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Popular Mechanics;

Two years after the Airbus 330 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, Air France 447’s flight-data recorders finally turned up. The revelations from the pilot transcript paint a surprising picture of chaos in the cockpit, and confusion between the pilots that led to the crash.

Via

Frank Jacobs explores the history of the German borders.
h/t Paul, who also recommends this link: ElectoralGeography.com

Laureys, a neurologist at the ­University of Liege in Belgium, published a study in BMC Neurology earlier this year saying Houben could be one of many cases of falsely diagnosed comas around the world. He discovered that although Houben was completely paralysed, he was also completely conscious — it was just that he was unable to communicate the fact.

h/t Kevin

Jann Arden opens the 99th Grey Cup game singing “O Canada” as though Canada were a boyfriend who just dumped her.
As one might expect.
And with that, your 2011 Grey Cup thread is open.

In the event that I should ever go “missing”, please get the f@$% off of Facebook and come look for me.
That goes for you too, “journalism”.

“Woman finds father dead in home full of bees. Cause of death not yet determined.”

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Free advice for parents.

I used to own a body like this.

(h/t David Maclean)

A new Freddie Mercury….

Like an SDA theme song. Have a great weekend and try not to break anything.