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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Brad Pitt iconic actor pictures and wallpapers



It would be a surprise if in some small Amazonian tribe somewhere they didn't know who this dude was. Brad Pitt has to be one of the most iconic men on the planet (and he looks more and more like Robert Redford as time marches on!). Pitt was born 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma.



Pitt's first jobs came in television, appearing in episodes of Dallas, he made his big screen debut in 1989's horror/slasher film Cutting Class with Donovan Leitch, and played a teen track star in Sandy Tung's Across the Tracks, but it was a well-timed bit part in a controversial Hollywood film that pushed him into the glare of instant stardom. Pitt's performance as a renegade, sugar-tongued hitchhiker who gets picked up by the two title characters in Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise (1991) grabbed universal attention.



















A selection of Brad Pitt wallpapers





















Brad Pitts Film & television projects:

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) .... John Smith
Ocean's Twelve (2004) .... Rusty Ryan
Troy (2004) .... Achilles
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) .... Sinbad
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) .... Brad, Bachelor #1
Full Frontal (2002) .... Brad/Himself
Ocean's Eleven (2001) .... Rusty Ryan
Spy Game (2001) .... Tom Bishop
The Mexican (2001) .... Jerry Welbach
Snatch. (2000) .... Mickey O'Neil
Fight Club (1999) .... Tyler Durden
Meet Joe Black (1998) .... Joe Black
The Dark Side of the Sun (1997) .... Rick
Seven Years in Tibet (1997) .... Heinrich Harrer
The Devil's Own (1997) .... Rory Devaney/Francis Austin McGuire
Sleepers (1996) .... Michael Sullivan
Twelve Monkeys (1995) .... Jeffrey Goines
Se7en (1995) .... Detective David Mills
Legends of the Fall (1994) .... Tristan Ludlow
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) .... Louis de Pointe du Lac
The Favor (1994) .... Elliott Fowler
True Romance (1993) .... Floyd
Kalifornia (1993) .... Early Grayce
Contact (1992) .... Cox
A River Runs Through It (1992) .... Paul Maclean
Cool World (1992) .... Detective Frank Harris
Across the Tracks (1991) .... Joe Maloney
Two-Fisted Tales (1991) (TV) .... Billy (segment "King of the Road")
Johnny Suede (1991) .... Johnny Suede
Thelma & Louise (1991) .... J.D.
"Glory Days" (1990) TV Series .... Walker Lovejoy (1990)
Too Young to Die? (1990) (TV) .... Billy Canton
The Image (1990) (TV) .... Steve Black
Cutting Class (1989) .... Dwight Ingalls
Happy Together (1989/I) .... Brian
A Stoning in Fulham County (1988) (TV) .... Theodore 'Teddy' Johnson
"Another World" (1964) TV Series .... Chris (1987)
Less Than Zero (1987) (uncredited) .... Partygoer
No Man's Land (1987) (uncredited) .... Waiter

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Mind-Altering Parasite

Toxoplasma gondii is a single-celled protozoan parasite of humans and other mammals (particularly cats) that infects 30-40 percent of the world’s human population, causing a condition called toxoplasmosis. According to a study conducted in Australia, this parasite can increase a woman’s attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid.

Relevant excerpts from an article by Dr. Nicky Boulter, a researcher of infectious diseases at Sydney University of Technology, in Australasian Science:
Interestingly, the effect of infection is different between men and women.

Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women.

On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls.

In short, it can make men behave like alley cats and women behave like sex kittens.
Nearly one-quarter of adults and adolescents in the United States have been infected with T. gondii. So, if your neighbor’s wife suddenly starts looking more attractive to you, take heed. Don’t be stupid!

Monday, November 24, 2008

More Mitch Hewer at Charmants blog

Our friends at Charmants have a fantastic post with ton's of pictures of Mitch Hewer. Check out these pics and visit Charmants blog for the full set...

























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Ben Barnes photos

Ben Barnes was born in 1981 and is an English actor who appeared in the 2007 film Stardust and plays the role of Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

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Sphagnum Mosses of Berrien County, Michigan

The sphagnum mosses are plants that belong to the Class Sphagnopsida, which consists of a single order (Sphagnales), a single Family (Sphagnaceae), and a single genus (Sphagnum). Some 285 species of sphagnum mosses are known worldwide, with 89 occurring in North America and 33 in Michigan. Sphagnum moss is sometimes called peat moss because the decayed and compacted remains of sphagnum moss form an organic product called peat. In contrast to the true mosses, the sphagnum mosses have the unique ability to absorb large quantities (up to 25 times their dry weight) of water in their cells. They are characteristic plants of bogs and other wetland habitats.

The following provisional list of the sphagnum mosses of Berrien County was derived from scanning the distribution maps in the online Flora of North America. Surprisingly (to me, at least), as many as 27 species of sphagnum mosses may occur in Berrien County, as all of the species listed below appear to have wide distributions that encompass Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Common names are taken from ITIS (where called Sphagnums) or British Liverworts and Mosses—a field guide (where called Bog-mosses). An asterisk (*) denotes a species treated in Henry T. Darlington’s (1964) The mosses of Michigan.

ORDER SPHAGNALES
Family Sphagnaceae:
  • Sphagnum angustifolium (=recurvum), Fine Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum capillifolium, Acute-leaved/Red Bog-moss
  • Sphagnum centrale*
  • Sphagnum compactum, Low Sphagnum or Compact Bog-moss
  • Sphagnum contortum, Contorted Sphagnum or Twisted Bog-moss
  • Sphagnum cuspidatum, Toothed Sphagnum or Feathery Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum fallax, Flat-topped Bog-moss
  • Sphagnum fimbriatum, Fringed Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum flexuosum (=recurvum), Flexuous Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum fuscum, Rusty Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum girgensohnii, Girgensohn’s Sphagnum or Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum henryense, Henry’s Sphagnum
  • Sphagnum isoviitae
  • Sphagnum lescurii, Lescur’s Sphagnum
  • Sphagnum magellanicum, Magellen’s Sphagnum or Magellanic Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum palustre, Prairie Sphagnum or Blunt-leaved Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum papillosum, Papillose Sphagnum or Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum platyphylum, Flat-leaved Bog-moss
  • Sphagnum pulchrum*
  • Sphagnum rubellum
  • Sphagnum russowii, Russow’s Sphagnum or Bog-moss
  • Sphagnum squarrosum, Spiky Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum subsecundum, Slender Cow-horn Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum subtile
  • Sphagnum teres, Rigid Bog-moss*
  • Sphagnum warnstorfii, Warnstorf's Sphagnum*
  • Sphagnum wulfianum*, Wulf’s Sphagnum
  • Friday, November 21, 2008

    Darkling Beetles of Berrien County, Michigan

    The darkling beetles (Family Tenebrionidae) are the fifth largest family of beetles (Order Coleoptera), with more than 1,300 species in the U.S. and Canada. They are a rather obscure family of relatively small beetles. Most of them are largely or entirely black or dark brown, and many spend a majority of their time hidden away in dark recesses, such as under the bark of dead and decaying trees, under fallen logs, or under rocks. A few are pests in stored food products, such as processed grains.

    Perhaps the best known of the darkling beetles is Tenebrio molitor, the larva of which (the common “mealworm”) is sold in pet stores to feed to tropical fish, lizards, and the like. They are also highly touted as food for wild birds; some people even raise their own mealworms for this purpose! Mealworms are also commonly used in classroom science projects.

    A provisional list of the darkling beetles of Berrien County was compiled using James C. Dunford et al.’s The darkling beetles of Florida and eastern United States. The list is restricted to species reported from both Michigan and Indiana. Based on the best distributional information currently available, this provisional list of the darkling beetles of Berrien County includes 57 species representing 9 subfamilies and 34 genera.

    The darkling beetle fauna of Berrien County represents something less than two-thirds of the more than 85 species known from Michigan, 44 percent of the 129 species known from the western Great Lakes, 25 percent percent of the 225 species known from eastern North America, 4.1 percent of the 1,400 species known from the U.S. and Canada, and 0.3 percent of the 19,000 species described worldwide.

    In the following list, States in the western Great Lakes with confirmed records for each species are identified in brackets by 2-letter postal codes (illustrations of most species are available in Dunford et al.):
    Subfamily Alleculinae# (comb-clawed bark beetles):
  • Hymenochara rufipes [IN, MI, OH]
  • Hymenorus melsheimeri [IN, MI]
  • Hymenorus niger, Black Comb-clawed Bark Beetle [IN, MI, WI]
  • Hymenorus obesus [IN, MI, WI]
  • Hymenorus pilosus [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Isomira oblongula [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Isomira pulla [IN, IL, MI, OH, WI]
  • Isomira quadristriata [IL,IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Isomira sericea [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Lobopoda nigrans [IL, IN, MI, OH]
  • Mycetochara bicolor [IN, MI, WI]
  • Mycetochara binotata [IN, MI, WI]
  • Mycetochara foveata [IN, MI, WI]
    # Formerly considered a distinct family, Alleculidae.

    Subfamily Bolitophaginae:
  • Bolitophagus corticola [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Bolitotherus cornutus, Horned Fungus Beetle [IN, MI, OH, WI]

    Subfamily Coelometopinae:
  • Alobates morio [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Alobates pennsylvanicus, False Mealworm Beetle [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Haplandrus fulvipes [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Iphthiminus opacus [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Merinus laevis [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Strongylium tenuicolle [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Strongylium terminatum [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Xylopinus aenescens [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Xylopinus saperdioides [IN, MI, OH, WI]

    Subfamily Diaperinae:
  • Cynaeus angustus [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Diaperis maculate [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Neomida bicornis [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Pentaphyllus pallidus [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Platydema ellipticum [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Platydema excavatum [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Platydema picilabrum [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Platydema ruficorne, Red-horned Flour/Grain Beetle [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Platydema subcostatum [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Platydema teleops [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Rhipidandrus paradoxus [IN, MI, OH, WI]

    Subfamily Hypophloeinae:
  • Corticeus parallelus [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]

    Subfamily Lagriinae# (long-jointed bark beetles):
  • Arthromacra aenea [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Paratenetus fuscus [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Paratenetus gibbipennis [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Paratenetus punctatus [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Statira gagatoma [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
    # Formerly considered a distinct family, the Lagriidae

    Subfamily Opatrinae:
  • Blapstinus metallicus [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Blapstinus moestus [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]

    Subfamily Phrenapatinae:
  • Dioedus punctatus [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]

    Subfamily Tenebrioninae:
  • Alphitobius diaperinus, Lesser Mealworm Beetle [IN, MI, OH, WI] {Introduced}
  • Centronopus calcaratus [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Idiobates castaneus [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Meracantha contracta [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Neatus tenebroides [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Palorus ratzeburgi, Small-eyed Flour Beetle [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Tenebrio molitor, Yellow Mealworm Beetle [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Tribolium castaneum, Red Flour Beetle [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Tribolium confusum, Confused Flour Beetle [IL, IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Uloma imberbis [IL, IN, MI, OH]
  • Uloma impressa [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Uloma mentalis [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • Uloma punctulata [IN, MI, OH, WI]
  • In Brinkley, They Still Believe

    They still believe in the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, that is, despite the lack of follow-up confirmation since 2004, as reported by Laura at O Arkansas.

    Thursday, November 20, 2008

    Even more Mitch Hewer photos!

    OK really were were not obsessed by Mitch Hewer! I say we in the Royal sense. I mean me! Really! The last pictures were a hit so I thought I'd would post a few more. Enjoy this hottie before he goes to seed although perhaps he's an angel and will just keep on going?



























































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